Worked with fellow freshman Lexi Silna to captured the duo's first collegiate doubles match with a 6-4 score over Middle Tennessee and then won her first collegiate singles match in three, 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (10-6)
Versus Georgia State, the necessary points to secure the doubles point and the match were clinched before she could record wins
Fought hard versus Minnesota, to close out the FGCU Invite, but dropped the court two doubles point 6-2, and a long three-set singles match, on court 4 1-6, 6-4, 11-9
Fell versus Miami and Texas, the nation's No. 1 team
Captured her doubles match versus Rice and fell in singles play
Contributed two points in the 5-2 win over FGCU with a doubles win and a 6-0, 6-3 win on court four singles
Dropped each of her matches in Kansas
Worked with Millie-Mae Matthews versus UNF where the duo fell 6-3. She then had a hard-fought win on singles court four, winning 6-4, 5-7, 1-0 (10-8)
Worked with Lexi Silna to win doubles court two over Missouri and then captured her singles court due to a withdraw
Made quick work of her court five Temple opponent with a 6-3, 6-1 score
Defeated Butler opponent 6-1, 6-2 contributing to the Owls 7-0 win
Fell in three sets versus VCU and also fell to Houston
Picked up a three-set win over Boston to help the Owls to a 5-2 win
Dropped her Yale match and UCF match where she also played doubles
Captured two wins in the Owls 4-3 win over Brown with a 6-3 on doubles court two and a 6-3, 6-1 win on singles court three
Fell in both matches at FIU playing on doubles court two and singles court three
Won at USF with a 7-6 (7-3) doubles win and a straight-set win in her court four singles match
In the C-USA Championship, she worked on court two with Matthews for a 6-3 win and also won her court four singles match, but then fell in both matches to Rice the final day
Competitive Tennis and Prior to FAU
Worked with the Torino Area Tennis Academy
Held a pre-college WTATour Singles Ranking of 1,156
Started playing tennis at the age of 14 and after just two years of competition was the winner of the North Italian Championship in the category U16
Highest TennisEurope international ranking U16 was 93 overall
Winner of both single and doubles competition in the ITF Juniors G5 in Algiers, Algeria
Won the doubles title in the ITF Juniors G4 in San Marino, Italy and earned the single title in the ITF Juniors G5 in Dakar, Senegal
Played semifinals in the ITF Juniors G2 in Croatia and in Portugal
Highest ITF Juniors international ranking was 380 overall
Was part of the team “Country Club Cuneo Tennis” playing the highest Italian League (“Series A”) for two years
Highest UTR ranking reached was 10.03
Personal
International Business
Daughter of Alessandra Castella and Luca Schieroni
Born June 22, 2002
Hobbies include spending time with friends, skying and all sports