Mallory Voelker Season 2005-06

Height5-8
YearSophomore
HometownDousman, Wis.
Voelker in Spring 2007: Records -- 15-8, 5-5 Big Ten; Doubles 14-9, 6-4 Big Ten
All Big Ten ... team's No. 1 singles and doubles player through the entire season ... won 13 matches in her first year at the top singles position and 13 more with Brooke Beier in doubles ... began the year with a season and career high singles ranking of 63 from the ITA ... she and Beier were ranked in doubles every week of the season, reaching a high of No. 20 to start the year ... went 5-5 against Big Ten opponents ... scored two wins over nationally ranked singles players: No. 26 Catrina Thompson of Notre Dame (4-6, 6-4, 11-9) and No. 104 Ashley Schellhas of Minnesota (6-1, 6-3) ... never lost more than two consecutive matches while competing at No. 1 singles ... of her seven singles defeats, five were to nationally ranked competitors, including No. 5 Megan Moulton Levy of William & Mary, No. 18 Wisconsin's Caitlin Burke and No. 12 Blakely Griffith of Tennessee ... with Beier, defeated the nation's No. 56 doubles team of Caitlin Burke and Elizabeth Thompson of Wisconsin 8-5 in the first round of the Big Ten Championships ... lost to Burke and Thompson in season's first meeting 8-3 in Madison ... suffered narrow losses to three top-10 doubles combos ... lost 9-7 to No. 1 Moulton Levy and Katarina Zoricic of William & Mary; fell 8-6 to No. 10 Alexis Prousis and Georgia Rose of Northwestern, and 8-5 to the No. 8 Thompson sisters, Catrina and Christina, of Notre Dame.

Voelker in Fall 2006: Record -- Singles 7-5; Doubles 5-4
Recorded a 4-2 record against ITA nationally ranked preseason opponents, beating Yulia Rivelis of Penn in the season opener, Maryland's Marianne Baker and Arizona State's Rebecca Rankin and Roxanne Clarke ... posted 3-1 records at both the season-opening St. Mary's Classic at Tennessee and at the season-ending ASU Thunderbird Invitational ... at ASU, lost to Cal's 90th-ranked Marion Ravelojana, 6-2, 6-2 in the main draw semifinals ... won the ASU Thunderbird Inviational doubles title with Brooke Beier ... Beier/Voelker upset the No. 4 ranked team of ASU's Pooler and Clark in the first round, 8-6 ... won the title over the Cal tandem of Kosano/Ravelojaona, 9-8 (5).

Voelker in 2005-06: Records -- Singles: 31-11 (9-1 Big Ten); 23-17 (6-4 Big Ten) ... Her 31 victories in the singles ranks is the second highest season total in team history behind Erica Adams' 37 wins in 1988-89 ... Began season at No. 4 singles, but was moved to No. 3 halfway through the spring after posting an 8-4 record; Voelker also succeeded at No. 3 with a 9-3 mark ... Pulled off a three-set upset over No. 24 Alexis Prousis of Northwestern at No. 3 singles, winning 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 ... Won both her postseason matches at No. 3 singles, beating Indiana's Brianna Williams in three sets at the Big Ten Tournament, and Harvard's Laura Peterzan in the NCAA Tournament, 6-3, 6-2 ... Had a fantastic fall season, posting an overall record of 12-3; won all three matches at the Western Michigan Super Challenge and won four of five contests at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships ... Played exclusively at No. 1 doubles with Hala Sufi through March 26, then with Brooke Beier the last month of the season; went 9-4 with Sufi, including a win over No. 18 Coventry/Schwenk of Kentucky ... Registered a 7-7 spring record with Beier; biggest win was over the third-ranked Harvard duo of Anderson/O'Riain at the NCAA Championships.

Voelker at Kettle Moraine High School: Ranked as high as 75th nationally and eighth in the Midwest ... four-time all-conference selection ... three-time all-state and all-area pick ... finished seventh or better at state tournament every year; runner-up as a junior.Voelker's Vitals: Given name is Mallory Louise Voelker ... born July 13, 1987 ... parents are Cindy and Tom Voelker ... mother is tennis coach at Kettle Moraine High School ... has an older sister, Addy, and a younger brother, Logan ... plans on majoring in management.
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