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Owls Add Lara Smejkal to 2024-25 Roster
4/27/2024 11:47:00 AM | Women's Tennis
BOCA RATON, Fla. – Florida Atlantic Owls' women's tennis team, ranked No. 68 nationally, will welcome the addition of Lara Smejkal to the 2024-25 squad.
Smejkal, a current FAU student, joins the squad after compiling an impressive tennis resume. She will join a squad coming of their ninth winning season in the last 10 years, and a year that the Owls tallied the most consecutive wins, 11, in program history. FAU lost just one player to graduation and is poised to return five of the six singles positions, including four players who recorded double-digit dual match wins and four that ended their 2024 campaign with winning doubles records.
On the addition of Lara Smejkal
"I am super excited to welcome Lara to our FAU family. She checks all the boxes needed to be a part of this program. She is hungry and motivated to get better. I am confident she will do great things in the future."
Smejkal, a current FAU student, joins the squad after compiling an impressive tennis resume. She will join a squad coming of their ninth winning season in the last 10 years, and a year that the Owls tallied the most consecutive wins, 11, in program history. FAU lost just one player to graduation and is poised to return five of the six singles positions, including four players who recorded double-digit dual match wins and four that ended their 2024 campaign with winning doubles records.
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Director of Tennis Ricardo GonzalezOn the addition of Lara Smejkal
"I am super excited to welcome Lara to our FAU family. She checks all the boxes needed to be a part of this program. She is hungry and motivated to get better. I am confident she will do great things in the future."
RESUME
- Doubles semi-finalist of Women's 40k in Otocec Slovenia (May 2023)
- Represented Slovenia in the Billie Jean King Cup in 2022
- ITF Juniors career high ranking of 107
- ITF J1 San Diego doubles champion (March 2022)
- ITF J4 Boca Raton doubles champion (November 2021)
- ITF J3 Mostar singles runner up (September 2021)
- ITF J4 Radomlje doubles runner-up (August 2021)
- ITF J4 Maribor singles and doubles champion (August 2021)
- ITF J4 Domzale singles champion (August 2021)
- Three-time Bobby Curtis Doubles Champion (12s and 14s mixed doubles champion; 18s girls doubles champion)
- 14s US hard court doubles champion
- 14s US clay court champion and third place in doubles
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