GAINESVILLE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – Florida State senior Kianah Motosono has traveled the world. By her count, she has been to 29 countries, territories, commonwealths and republics visits that have allowed her to experience first-hand the vast number of incredible cultures that make up the world as we know it. She’s been to countries in every hemisphere, crossed the Tropic of Cancer a number of times, traversed the equator and experienced winter, spring, summer and fall in more places than she can recall. But in 2021, she found a home at Florida State. Following three outstanding seasons at the University of Oklahoma, Motosono transferred back to her home state of Florida and found her tennis family at Florida State. “It's such an honor and amazing experience to be able to finish my career in such a competitive and elite program,” said Motosono as the Seminoles prepared to face Florida in the second round of the 2022 NCAA Championships. “I feel like I’m at
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – As the Florida State Women’s Tennis Team gets set to play Florida International on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Championships at the Alfred A. Ring Tennis Complex at the University of Florida, junior Vic Allen is building quite a legacy. She’s a member of two NCAA Championship teams, earned All-American Honors from the ITA for her doubles play in 2020 and is among the top 20 in school history for doubles winning percentage. She’s also one of four players in school history with multiple winning streaks in singles play of 10 matches or more. Allen is not only successful on the tennis court, but in the classroom as well. She is a recent recipient of the Golden Nole Award for her outstanding academic achievements and the newly elected Vice President of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) at Florida State. She earned Academic Dean’s List honors this spring and has earned either President’s List (three times) or Dean’
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – Florida State senior Petra Hule has been selected as the No. 3 seed in the singles championship, while Hule and sophomore Anna Arkadianou have been chosen to play in the doubles championship of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis Championship. Hule's No. 3 seed is the highest in schhol history in the NCAA Singles Championship. The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 23-28 at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex in Champaign, Illinois, after the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 20-22. The Seminoles were selected on Monday to play in the team championship and will face Florida Atlantic on Saturday at 11:00 am in the Gainesville Regional at the Alfred A. Ring Tennis Complex at the University of Florida. The winner of Saturday’s match between the Seminoles and the Panthers will face the winner of Saturday’s match between Florida and South Alabama on Sunday at 1:00 pm. Hule, who owns an incredible 21-1 reco
Coral Gables, FL – The FSU women’s tennis team continued its three-week road trip facing its fourth straight ranked opponent and third straight opponent ranked in the top 20. Friday afternoon the Noles were in Coral Gables where they came up short versus No. 12 Miami 6-1. Petra Hule, the nation’s 16th-ranked singles player, recorded her sixth-straight ranked victory in singles for the Noles. With injuries once again forcing the Seminoles to play short-handed, FSU was unable to upset either of the two ranked doubles teams they faced after starting out down 0-1 although Petra Hule and Anna Arkadianou came close. On court one, the FSU pair fell just shy of defeating the nation’s No. 16 pair falling 4-6. Facing a 0-2 deficit heading into singles, the Seminoles faced ranked opponents on courts 1-3. On court one, Hule continued her dominance. The Australian downed the nation’s No. 58 singles player 6-4, 7-5 recording her fourth top 60 win of the season. On court two, Vic Allen almo
Tallahassee, FL – The 18th-ranked FSU women’s tennis advanced to the winner’s bracket at the ITA Kickoff Weekend regional in Tallahassee Saturday afternoon. The Seminoles defeated Illinois 4-3 and will now face the winner of No. 19 Florida and FIU Sunday at 2:00 p.m. The win moved FSU to a perfect 3-0 on the season. Starting down 1-0 in doubles for the third straight dual match due to player availability, FSU once again did what it needed to do to take the point and jump out to a 1-0 lead. Vic Allen and Kianah Motosono came off first on court two with a 6-2 victory. With the score even, it was up to Petra Hule and Lesedi Jacobs to put the Noles in the lead. The pair improved to 3-0 as a team with a 6-4 win on court one to take the point. “The team did such a mature job in doubles to start the match and came out on fire,” said FSU Head Coach Jen Hyde. “We got some big leads on courts one and two and to have to forfeit three is an added pressure but they handled it really we