2019-20 Women's Tennis Roster
Roster
Priya Niezgoda
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Chaparral Star Academy
- Hometown:
- Austin, Texas
Niezgoda career match by match
Honors at Rice
C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
ITA Scholar-Athlete 2017, 2018, 2019
Rice Honor Athlete, 2020
Rice Scholar Athlete, 2019
All C-USA Singles (first team) 2020 (second team) 2019
All C-USA Doubles (first team) 2019, 2020 (third team) 2017
2019-20 (Senior)
Closed her final season with the Owls with a 17-10 record in singles (8-4 in duals) while finishing 40th in the final Oracle/ITA doubles rankings with Anastasia Smirnova, the ninth doubles team in school history to finish the year in the top 50… Earned All C-USA first team honors in both singles and doubles... Duo posted a pair of wins over ranked doubles opponents in the spring, including a 6-2 win over Oklahoma’s Jasmine Asghar and Oleksandra Korashvili (who were ranked 27th at that time) at the ITA Kickoff in Raleigh, NC. Fall: Finished the fall campaign with 7-5 mark in singles and 6-2 in doubles…Opened the fall ranked in a tie for 39th in doubles with Anastasia Smirnova and improved that ranking to 37th by the end of the season…Duo reached the doubles semifinals at the ITA Texas Regional defeating a pair of teams from Texas (Marta Perez-Mur/Lexi Ryngler in the round of 16 and Fernanda Labrana/Tijana Spasojevic) before for falling to eighth ranked Jayci Goldsmith and Tatiana Marakova of Texas A&M… Reached the consolation semifinal round of the Texas Regional in singles, winning four matches.
2018-19 (Junior)
Second on the team with a career-high 14 singles wins (14-7), primarily at the fourth line (9-2)… Won eight of her last 10… Tied for the team lead with four clinch points in singles… 4-0 in tiebreakers and 2-0 in supersets… Ranked in doubles with Anastasia Smirnova for most of the dual season, compiling a 17-3 record overall (13-2 at the second line)… Duo won their last eight decisions to close out the season… Clinched nine of the Owls 19 doubles points during the season. Fall: Won the Texas ITA Regional Singles Consolation title while not dropping a set in five matches to give the Owls their second consecutive consolation bracket winner, joining Savannah Durkin.
2017-18 (Sophomore)
Spring: Won seven of 11 decisions in singles, highlighted by a five-match winning streak from March 13-April 3... Provided the clinch point in the Owls' win over No. 50 William & Mary ....Posted an overall mark of 10-7 in doubles, including a 6-3 mark with Fernanda Astete Pair was 2-1 when facing C-USA opponents Closed strongly by winning five of their last six decisions Three of their six wins clinched the doubles point for the Owls, including wins over WKU and ODU at the C-USA Championship . C-USA Women's Tennis Athlete of the Week (3/28) after clinching both the doubles point and the match with a win in singles vs. #50 William and Mary and adding wins in both in a win over #36 Princeton Fall: Tied for the team lead with a 10-1 mark in fall singles action and added a 6-5 record in doubles... Posted unbeaten weekends at CU's Haunted Horned Frog Classic and the River Oaks Country Club Fall College Invitational.. Teamed with Sofie Moenster to with the Third Flight doubles title at the Rice Invite.
2016-17 (Freshman)
Spring: Posted an unbeaten record in singles (7-0) while enjoying a run in the national doubles rankings with Alison Ho, finishing the year tied for the team lead with 15 doubles wins (15-6/1365 w/Ho) Won both of her conference singles matches, downing Kylee Kato of UTSA, 6-1, 6-4, and Jill van den Dungen of Louisiana Tech, 6-4, 6-0 duo defeated a pair of ranked opponents Defeated Fresno State's 50th ranked Katerina Stloukalova and Georgia Lawson during the ITA Kickoff and then Texas Tech's No. 33 Gabriela Talaba and Felicity Maltby. Fall: Compiled 17wins in singles and doubles while breaking into collegiate tennis during the fall tournament campaign... Finished 10-5 in singles and 7-5 in doubles.
High School/Juniors
Ranked as a 5-Star recruit and ranked as high as 27th nationally and 3rd in Gulf States on Tennisrecruiting.net... Complied twenty-three, 1st & 2nd place titles in the National Level 2/Sectional level tournaments in U16 & U18 age groups--Thirteen in singles and ten in doubles... National Level 1 Doubles Championship 2014, 3rd place/Bronze Ball Winner (U16); Quarterfinalist in 2015 Clay Courts Nationals... Competed successfully for Team Texas at the Girls 18 Nationals Team Championship; and Girls 16 Intersectional... Recipient of the 2015 Mary Lowden Award as the outstanding junior USTA girl in Texas; and the Nancy Jeffett Sportsmanship, USTA Texas Award.
Personal
Full Name: Priya Anne Niezgoda... Born: 01/13/1998 at Austin, Texas... Father: Paul Niezgoda, Mother: Asha Hegde-Niezgoda... Graduate of Chaparral Star Academy High School in Austin, TX...Ranked second in her graduating class... President of the National Honor Society, and secretary of yearbook ... Recipient of High School Distinguished Student Award.
| Singles | Tour | Dual | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 10-5 | 7-0 | 7-0 | |||||
| 2017-18 | 12-2 | 7-4 | 1-0 | 2-2 | 4-2 | |||
| 2018-19 | 8-5 | 14-7 | 9-2 | |||||
| 2019-20 | 9-6 | 8-4 | 1-0 | 5-3 | 2-1 | |||
| TOTAL | 39-18 | 36-15 | 1-0 | 6-3 | 11-3 | 5-5 | 13-4 |
| Doubles | Tour | Dual | #1 | #2 | #3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 7-5 | 15-6 | 2-0 | 13-6 | |
| 2017-18 | 9-5 | 10-8 | 7-5 |
3-3 | |
| 2018-19 | 5-1 | 17-3 | 4-1 | 13-2 | |
| 2019-20 | 6-5 | 5-5 | 4-3 | 1-2 | |
| TOTAL | 27-16 | 47-22 | 10-4 | 34-15 | 3-3 |
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