Michaela Silesova Class: Junior Hometown: Topolcany, Slovakia High School: Sportove Gymnazium Nitra Height: 6-2 Birthdate: 09/27/1989

Meet the Spartans: Michaela Silesova

2012: Junior

Spring: Singles- Played on both courts three and four this season, recording a 5-15 record... Defeated Keating of Oakland, 6-0, 6-3... Dropped Rivero of Eastern 6-3, 6-2... Blanked Power of Cleveland State, 6-0, 6-0... Notched a 6-4, 6-4 win over Johnson of Ball State
Doubles- Went 7-14 in doubles play, seeing action on courts one and two... Edged Angelika and Angelina Jogasuria of Akron, 9-8, with partner Julianne Gruber... Also dropped Karoub and Georgakopoulos of Oakland, 8-2, alongside Gruber... Tallied three victories paired up with Herzog over Lazaris and Bjerrehus (Cleveland State), 8-2, Eccleston and Johnson (Bowling Green), 8-5, and Anonsen and Pitt (Toledo) 8-4... Won two doubles alongside partner Marina Bohrer on court two... The pairing dropped Miller and Bukajeva at Stetson, 8-5 and blanked Ball State's Rang and Hebble, 8-0

Fall: Won a doubles match alongside Nicole Herzog over Bauer and Lobel of Wisconsin, 9-7, at the ITA Second Chance tournament

2011- Sophomore
Spring: Competed at the No. 4, 5, and 6 singles positions ... Tallied a record of 17-11 ... Started off the season with an eight-match win streak, which began with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Kuvakina of Akron ... Blanked Parr of Miami of Ohio, 6-0, 6-1 ... Defeated Shutsova of Western Michigan, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 ... Topped Wig of the University of Michigan, 6-3, 3-6, 1-0, to tally the Spartans' lone point in their 6-1 loss to the Wolverines ... Defeated Bush of Cleveland State, 6-1, 6-2 ... Downed Filbrandt of Dayton, 6-1, 6-2 ... Went 3-0 alongside Whitney Wilson in the No. 2 doubles position against Walk and Drachera of Miami of Ohio, 8-5, Sujasvili and Nivia of Western Michigan, 8-5, and Power and Bush of Cleveland State, 8-3 ... Competed the rest of the season alongside partner Valentina Rusakova at the No. 3 doubles spot, going 6-9 together ... Downed Tirumurit and Golder of Purdue, 8-2 ... Posted a victory over Garre and Kyllman of Indiana, 8-6 ... Edged Minnesota's Wiecha and Splica, 9-7.

Fall: Compiled a record of 7-5 in tournament play ... Notched three victories at the Spartan Invitational with wins over Emily Reuland of Bowling Green, 7-5, 6-7, 6-3, Ashley Frey of Toledo, 6-2, 7-5, and Lia Tejoprayitno of Chicago State University, 6-2, 6-4 ... Won two matches at the Wildcat Invitational, including a victory against Samantha Kaneta of DePaul University, 6-2, 6-0 ... Won three matches at the ITA Regional Second Chance, including victories over Kelly Barry of Marquette, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, and April Kerr of Western Michigan, 6-3, 7-6 ... Captured a doubles win with Rusakova over Thomson and Boulieris of Ball State, 8-1, at the Spartan Invitational.

2010- Freshman
Spring: Recorded a total of five singles victories and 10 doubles wins with partner Elena Ivanova in the Spring... won her first singles match over Maria Lazaris of Cleveland State, 6-3, 6-4... recorded a win over Detroit's Svetlana Flankova, 6-1, 6-0... downed Rodreiquez of UCF 6-4, 4-6, 6-3... also tallied a victory over Natalia Totevska 6-2, 6-3 at Florida Atlantic... won against Kelly Lamble from Santa Clara that went into three sets, 4-6, 7-6 (10-0), 10-7... defeated Rodriguez and Doefler of UCF alongside Ivanova, 8-5... captured the win over Chelsea Jones and CC Sardinha of Syracuse, 9-7... recorded an 8-6 victory over Martina Wodzinski and Maha Guirguis of Toledo... in Big Ten Play downed Aleksandra Markovic and Jessica Seyferth of Wisconsin, 8-5... posted a 8-6 victory over Lauren McCarthy and Denisa Zobeideh of Penn State... tallied a win against Anna Dushkina and Gisella Pere of #48 Purude, 9-5 (7-5)... topped Lindsey Stuckey and Evageniaya Vertesheva from #43 Indiana. 8-5.

High School
Advanced to the final round of the Talentum Cup in 2006 in doubles action with partner Barbora Krtickova before falling to the pairing of Babos and Jani, 2-6, 2-6 ... In May of 2006, she advanced to the quarterfinals in the TED-Istanbul competition before falling in a close match to Angelika Aliev, 4-6, 7-5, 6-7(5) ... advanced to the main draw of the 25th Perin Memorial Competition after topping first Polana Dakic, 6-7(7), 6-3, 6-2, and then Martina Dedaj, 6-3, 6-1.

Personal
Born September 27, 1989 ... Daugher of Zdeno and Magdelena Silesova.

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