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2022-23 Women's Tennis Roster
Roster
Mila Saric
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Los Cristianos-Arona, Tenerife, Spain
- High School:
- Synergy School
HONORS
2018 Dean’s List (Spring)
2018 Provost Award Winner (Fall)
2019 Dean’s List (Fall)
2019 Provost Award Winner (Fall)
2020 Dean’s List (Spring)
2020 Dean’s List (Fall)
2020 Provost Award (Fall)
2021 Dean’s List (Spring)
2021 Dean’s List Recipient (Fall)
2021 Provost Award Winner (Fall)
2022 Dean’s List Recipient (Spring)
2018-2022 CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll
2018-22 ITA Scholar-Athlete every year of career (Every Semester)
2020 Second Team VaSID All-State (singles)
2020 Second Team VaSID All-State (doubles)
2021 CAA Player of the Year
2021 Most outstanding Performer, CAA Championships
2021 First Team All-CAA (singles)
2021 First Team All-CAA (doubles)
2021 First Team VaSID All-State (singles)
2021 First Team VaSID All-State (doubles)
2022 CAA Player of the Year
2022 First Team All-CAA (singles)
2021 Second Team All-CAA (doubles)
2019-22 W&M Provost Award (every Year)
Nine-time CAA Player of the Week
Six-time CAA Doubles Team of the Week
2023 All-ACC Academic Team
2023 ACC Academic Honor Roll
2023 ITA Scholar Athlete
ON SARIC
SPRING 2023
Totaled eight victories (six in singles and two in doubles) in the spring season… helped the Seminoles reach the Round of 32 in the NCAA Championships and quarterfinals of the ACC Championship…won (6-7, 7-6, 6-0) against Whitley Pate at No. 5 singles to clinch the team victory against the 19th-ranked Wake Forest…started off the season with three straight victories against FGCU (6-0, 7-6), Mercer (6-3, 7-5), and Arkansas (6-4, 6-3)…secured both doubles victories with Alice Amendola, Mercer (6-2) at No. 3 and FAMU (6-1) at No. 2…defeated Semra Aksu (1-6, 6-1, 7-6 (5) at No. 4 singles in a 5-2 route over No. 64 Virgina Tech…defeated Annalisa Smith (6-3, 4-6, 6-2) in the team’s 5-0 victory against UAB.2022-23 NATIONAL SINGLES RANKINGS
Ranked No. 75 in singles in the preseason rankings by the ITA.
FALL 2022
Made her Florida State debut at the ITA All-American Championships at the Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C…finished in a 2-2 record in her first Florida State event…fell to Thasaporn Naklo of Iowa State (1-6, 5-7) in the open singles qualifying round of 64…teamed with Ellie Schoppe in the open doubles pre-qualifying quarterfinal round and fell to Hannah McColgan and Marta Perez Maur of Maryland (8-2)…totaled a 3-3 record with two wins in singles play at the ITA Southeast Regional Championship in Atlanta…gained victories over Taylor Dean of Kennesaw State (6-4, 6-1) and Katerina Filip of Florida Atlantic (6-3, 6-3)…advanced to the main draw singles round of 16 before falling to Mahak Jain of Georgia Tech (7-5, 7-5)…was 1-3 at the San Juan Invitational with her victory coming in singles play over Kaitlin Carnincella of Auburn (7-5, 2-6, 10-8)…also played against Kari Miller of Michigan and Holy Staff of Vanderbilt in singles play…teamed with Olympe Lancelot in her only doubles match in San Juan where the Seminole pair fell to Celia-Belle Mohr and Holly Staff of Vanderbilt by a 7-5 score…a near perfect 5-1 record at the UNF Invitational…earned a 3-0 record in singles and won a Flight Championship singles and totaled a 2-1 record in doubles…her singles wins came against Annabelle Davis of USF (6-6, 6-3 (11-9), Sophia Biolay of UCF (3-6, 6-4 (10-6) and Lucia Quietrio of UNC Charlotte (7-5, 3-6, 1-0 (10-7) to earn a singles flight championship…paired with Seminole teammate Alice Amendola to gain doubles victories over Lucia Aranda and Emma van Poppel of UNC Charlotte (6-4) and Francesca Feodorov and Hannah McColgan of Maryland (7-6).
SPRING 2022
The fourth player in William & Mary history to be named the CAA Player of the Year twice in her career…finished the year ranked No. 100 nationally in singles and was ranked No. 7 in the ITA Atlantic Region…named to the All-CAA First Team in singles and to the All-CAA Second Team in doubles…played in the 2022 NCAA Singles Championship — the first W&M player since 2016 to be selected to the NCAA Singles Championship…fell in three sets to No. 32-ranked Carolyn Campana of Wake Forest, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4…earned a 25-6 singles record during the spring of her senior season…named the CAA Player of the Week on three occasions…clinched regular season wins over Richmond, Delaware and Drexel with singles wins at No. 1…was 15-3 in dual-match action at the No. 1 spot … defeated All-American and NCAA Semifinalist Paola Exposito Diaz-Delgado of VCU, who finished the year ranked No. 47 nationally…earned nationally-ranked wins over No. 55 Thasaporn Naklo of Iowa State and No. 83 Ariana Arseneault of Auburn…clinched CAA semifinal win over Delaware with a three-set win at the top spot over Eliza Askarova, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5…teamed with Hedda Gurholt, and finished with a 8-7 record at No. 1 doubles, including a 3-2 mark in CAA play…two of the CAA wins came against All-CAA First-Team squads from Charleston (Slade Coetzee and Hali Trinkle) and UNCW (Sasha Belaya and Lauren Gish)…earned CAA Doubles Team of the Week honors with Emma Fernald on April 26 after posting a win at the No. 2 position against Elon…selected to the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll…a W&M Provost Award winner…named an ITA Scholar-Athlete.
FALL 2021
Earned a 10-3 record in singles in four fall tournaments…advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITA Atlantic Region Super Regional…posted a 3-1 singles mark at the Kitty Harrison Invitational (Sept 24-26)…won five consecutive matches with wins over Christin Hsieh of Iowa State (6-3, 5-7, 1-0 (12-10), Michelle Sorokki of Princeton (6-2, 6-3), Ariana Arseneault pof Auburn (7-6 (7-5), 7-5), Aleysa Yakubovich of Old Dominion (6-2, 7-6 (7-5) and Jojo Bach of Maryland (6-3, 7-5).
SPRING 2021
Named the CAA Player of the Year…selected to the All-CAA First Team in both singles and doubles…ranked No. 9 in the ITA Atlantic Region in singles and doubles…selected to the VaSID All-State First Team in both singles and doubles…won her final eight matches of the year and finished with an 11-3 overall singles record…picked up a pair of nationally-ranked wins, knocking off ODU’s Holly Hutchinson in three sets in each of the team’s dual matches at the top singles spot…capped the season, going 3-0 with straight-set wins at No. 1 singles in the CAA Championship to earn the Most Outstanding Performer award…twice she was named the CAA Singles Player of the Week…earned a 10-4 mark in doubles action…defeated Richmond’s Emily Dunbar in three-sets at No. 1 in William& Mary’s 4-2 win over the Spiders…defeated Liberty’s Alexandra Almborg in straight sets at No. 1 in March… avenged an earlier three-set loss to JMU’s Daria Afanasyeva, dropping just four games in a dominating win in the CAA Championship match…named the CAA Doubles Team of the Week on March 10 along with Vitoria Okuyama…named a William & Mary Provost Award winner…selected to the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll…named an ITA Scholar-Athlete.
SPRING 2020
Named to the VaSID All-State Second Team in both singles and doubles…twice named the CAA Singles Player of the Week and once on the doubles team of the week in 2020…led William & Mary with a 14-7 overall record and was 6-4 in dual-match play…picked up a pair of nationally ranked wins during the year…handed No. 90 Ayana Akli her first dual-match loss in straight-sets, 6-4, 7-6 (2), to clinch William & Mary’s 4-2 win over Big Ten foe Maryland… notched a pair of wins at the top singles position…clinched William & Mary’s win over George Washington with a victory at No. 2…totaled eight doubles wins…teamed with Vitoria Okuyama to comprise the Tribe’s No. 1 doubles team, going 5-5 overall with three wins at No. 1…the duo secured the doubles point for William & Mary in upsetting the No. 51-ranked team in the country from Iowa State (Christin Hsieh and Thasaporn Naklo) in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (6)…named to the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll during both the fall and spring seasons…selected as a W&M Provost Award winner…an ITA Scholar-Athlete honoree.
FALL 2019
Named the doubles runner-up at the Kitty Harrison Invitational with Okuyama in November after posting wins over the North Carolina team of Kacie Harvey and Alle Sanford and the NC State pair of Liz Norman and Lexi Keberle…defeated No. 44-ranked Zoe Spence during the fall season at the Kitty Harrison Invitational.
SPRING 2019
Named the CAA Rookie of the Year…selected to the All-CAA Second Team in singles…led William & Mary with a 19-11 singles mark, including a 15-6 dual-match record…won six of her final seven matches, including all three in the CAA Championship in straight sets…was 6-0 against CAA competition during the dual-match season… twice named the CAA Singles Player of the Week and garnered the doubles honor on two occasions…clinched three William & Mary wins during the regular season, including victories over Maryland and Atlantic 10 Champion VCU… led William & Mary with 14 doubles wins…teamed with Perry, she totaled a 10-6 record in dual-match play with five wins apiece at No. 2 and No. 3…named the CAA Doubles Team of the Week after downing Virginia Tech’s Nika Kozar and Nina Sorkin on March 6…named the CAA Doubles Team of the Week after winning its opening four matches of the season…downed VCU’s Paola Delgado and Kanako Yano to help William & Mary to the doubles point and a win over the A-10 Champion…selected ITA Scholar-Athlete…a William & Mary Provost Award recipient…named to the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll.
FALL 2018
Graduated from the Synergy School in 2018…earned a career-high ITF Combined World Ranking of 429 in 2018…the 2017 women’s champion of the Canary Islands…won a trio of ITF Junior doubles championships in 2017…claimed the 2017 Babolata Cup title in Ukraine and won the ITF East African 18 & Under Junior Circuit event in Nairobi, Kenya in January of 2017…ranked No. 1 in the Canary Islands and top 20 U18 in Spain…rated a career-best 64th overall in Spain in January of 2018… competed in the ITF Women’s Circuit events in 2015, 2016 and 2017… advanced to the singles quarterfinals at the ITF East African 18 & Under Junior Circuit event in Nairobi, Kenya in January of 2017…won two qualifying matches and advanced to the round of 16 at the 22nd Tivoli Trophy in Timisoara, Romania in July 2017…won a pair of qualifying matches and advanced to the second round of the 2017 City of Wels Junior Grand Prix, Powered by EWW, a Grade 1 event in Austria… advanced to quarterfinals in singles and semifinals in doubles at the 2017 Luxembourg Outdoor Juniors Open…was a doubles quarterfinalist at the 19th Serbia Junior Open in 2017…an exceptional student with a GPA of 9.92 out of 10…earned a scholarship from the government to study English in Canada for three months.
PERSONAL
Born November 8, 2000…Mila is the daughter of Marija Misic and Vlado Saric…has a 14-year old sister, Iva, who is a standout tennis player…was raised in Tenerife — a small island off of Morocco…speaks three languages – Spanish, Serbian, and English fluently…passionate about food and enjoys tasting new foods from around the world…enjoys traveling…graduated with a 3.77 grade point average during her four-year career at William & Mary…hopes to play professional tennis while also considering a career in the finance industry…pursuing her MBA with a concentration in Finance as her major at Florida State.
