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**2002 ALL-MWC SINGLES**
**2002 ALL-MWC DOUBLES**
UNLV: An All-America and conference MVP candidate who will begin her third consecutive season as the team’s No. 1 singles player … Looks to return to the NCAA Singles Championship after earning her first bid as a sophomore … Will again pair with fellow Poland native Agnieszka Abram to form the No. 1 doubles team … Career high ranking is No. 41 … Heads into the spring season standing 85th … Posted 8-5 record in her final fall season … Earned her first Academic All-MWC honor as a junior … 2002: Ended the year ranked 115th after turning in her second consecutive all-conference season in both singles and doubles … Her 20-12 singles record included a 15-8 slate in dual matches … Biggest win of career came on March 14 when she rallied to upset No. 20 Alice Pirsu of Penn, 1-6, 7-5, 6-4, to help team down the Quakers … Played nation’s top-ranked player one day previous and pushed the eventual NCAA champ before falling to Wake Forest’s Bea Bielik 7-6, 6-2 … Named MWC Player of the Week on Feb. 5 and again on March 27 … Teamed with Abram to post a 16-14 doubles record, which included an 11-11 mark at No. 1 doubles … Duo upset 28th-ranked Illarionova and Maurer from Auburn to help Lady Rebels hold off Tigers on March 26 … Went 3-0 during MWC tournament to help UNLV earn second title in three years … Posted 5-4 fall record … Ranked a career-best 41st in the preseason ITA poll and stood 59th heading into the spring campaign … 2001: Finished ranked No. 67 after first season on Division-I level … Took over team’s No. 1 singles spot and posted 16-7 record in dual-match play en route to all-conference honors … Six of those losses came to ranked players … Won 10 of her last 11 regular-season matches, including upsets of No. 37 Jodi Richardson of BYU and No. 33 Kim Niggemeyer of Fresno State … Turned in sparkling 8-1 record vs. the MWC’s top players … Late-season surge earned her at-large selection to NCAA Singles Championship where she was downed by Fresno State’s Liesl Fitchbaurer in the first round … Had a 13-10 doubles record, including 11-6 at the top spot with Abram … The duo won nine of its last 11, including a 9-1 mark vs. league opponents … Became the third Lady Rebel to win conference player-of-the-week honors twice in one season (April 4 and 19).
AT AZUSA PACIFIC: Spent one season playing for the NAIA school located in Azusa, CA, and was named All-America in both singles and doubles. … Finished with regular-season record of 23-1 in singles and 18-2 in doubles for the Cougars … Ended season ranked No. 4 in singles and No. 8 in doubles … Helped coach Mark Bohren’s squad to its first GSAC title and a final national ranking of 11.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 1999 graduate of Primus High School in Warsaw … Ranked No. 1 in Poland’s 16-and-under, 18-and-under and 21-and-under divisions … Won Polish junior doubles championship four times … Ranked in the top 50 by ITF.
PERSONAL: Paulina Sophie Janus was born on May 15, 1980 in Warsaw … The daughter of Elizabeth and Jaroslaw Janus … Majoring in international business.
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