Marharita-Sophia Tavpash

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Career Highlights:

2020-21 Second Team All-MAC
2020-21, 2018-19, 2017-18 Academic All-MAC
2020-21 MAC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete
Five-Time MAC Doubles Team of the Week (Feb. 27, 2019, Paula Comella; March 27, 2019, Comella; Feb. 28, 2018, Comella; April 12, 2017, Comella; April 19, 2017, Comella)

2020-21

Ended the season with 68 career singles wins, tied for 17th all-time
Concluded with 82 career doubles wins, fifth in program history
Totaled 150 career wins combined, seventh in program history
Was named a MAC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete, a 'best of the best' list of student-athletes who earned both all-conference and academic all-conference honors
Went 12-7 over the course of the season in singles play, being 11-7 at No. 1 singles and 1-0 at No. 2 singles
Finished with a 7-11 record in doubles play over the course of the year, all at No. 1 doubles
Was 5-3 with partner Yulia Kapitanova, 2-5 with Laura Silveira, 0-1 with Selina Karg and 0-2 with Marta Bettinelli

2019-20:

Opened the fall season by winning the Doubles Grit Bracket at the BGSU Invitational with partner Marta Bettinelli
Rolled the momentum into a first place finish in the Doubles Black Bracket at the Purdue Invite
Began the spring season with a doubles win at Notre Dame
Closed the season with a perfect day against Indiana Tech, not allowing a point in either singles or doubles

2018-19:

Opened the fall campaign in single by winning the Brown Bracket of the BGSU Invitational
Placed first in doubles at the BGSU Invitational with partner Paula Comella, winning the Freddie Falcon Bracket
Crowned doubles champion at the Viking Invitational in Cleveland with Comella
Began spring season with wins in both singles and doubles propelling BGSU to it’s first 7-0 sweep to start the spring since 1996
Defeated the No. 4 ranked Division II doubles duo with Comella against Indianapolis
Concluded spring season with a 11-8 accumulative singles record (No. 1, 1-4; No. 2, 6-3; No. 3, 4-1)
Finished spring with a 13-6 doubles record at No. 1 doubles with Paula Comella

2017-18:

Competed majority of the spring season at No. 3 singles, where she posted an overall record of 12-7, in addition to a 4-2 mark in MAC play
Registered a 14-6 record at No. 1 doubles with partner Comella, as well as an impressive 5-1 mark in conference competition
Advanced to the ITA Regionals Singles Main Draw in the fall season with three straight wins
Totaled 26 wins in the 2018 campaign

2016-17:

Tied for the team lead with 32 overall wins in her first season as a Falcon
Went 14-18 in singles play with a 1-7 MAC mark
Earned her first collegiate win at the Greater Cincinnati Invitational (Sept. 16) by defeating Alex Townsend of Dayton 6-2, 6-3
finished conference play in doubles with Paul Comela with a 4-4 record and went 17-11 overall on the year
Also played one doubles match with Emily Witt, and that duo emerged victorious.

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