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Sofiia Paladi
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Odessa, Ukraine
- High School:
- Kharkiv Comprehensive Online
- Major:
- Marketing
CAREER ACCOLADES
CAREER RECORDS
Singles and Doubles Combined: 151-80
2025-26 (SENIOR)
SINGLES HIGHLIGHTS
DOUBLES HIGHLIGHTS
2024-25 (JUNIOR)
SINGLES HIGHLIGHTS
DOUBLES HIGHLIGHTS
2023-24 (SOPHOMORE)
SINGLES HIGHLIGHTS
DOUBLES HIGHLIGHTS
2022-23 (FRESHMAN)
SINGLES HIGHLIGHTS
DOUBLES HIGHLIGHTS
HIGH SCHOOL
PERSONAL
- 3x All-ASUN First Team (2024, 2025, 2026)
- ASUN All-Freshman Team (2023)
- ASUN All-Tournament Team (2026)
- 5x ASUN Player of the Week (Feb. 7, 2024; March 6, 2024; Jan. 29, 2025; Feb. 12, 2025; Feb. 3, 2026)
- ASUN Scholar-Athlete (2025)
- 2x ASUN All-Academic Team (2025, 2026)
- 3x College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® (2024, 2025, 2026)
- 3x ITA Scholar-Athlete (2023, 2024, 2025)
- Highest ITA Ohio Valley Region Singles Finish: 16th (2025)
CAREER RECORDS
Singles and Doubles Combined: 151-80
| SINGLES | Total | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Dual | Tour | Conf |
| 2023 | 18-14 | --- | 10-10 | --- | --- | --- | --- | 10-10 | 8-4 | 4-4 |
| 2024 | 25-4 | --- | 16-2 | 3-0 | --- | --- | --- | 19-2 | 6-2 | 9-1 |
| 2025 | 26-9 | 15-4 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 15-4 | 11-5 | 6-2 |
| 2026 | 18-11 | 13-6 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 13-6 | 5-5 | --- |
| Totals | 87-38 | 28-10 | 26-12 | 3-0 | --- | --- | --- | 57-22 | 30-16 | 19-7 |
| DOUBLES | Total | 1 | 2 | 3 | Dual | Tour | Conf |
| 2023 | 5-15 | 0-3 | 3-5 | --- | 3-8 | 2-7 | 1-2 |
| 2024 | 17-5 | 11-5 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 13-5 | 4-0 | 5-2 |
| 2025 | 16-16 | 10-6 | 1-1 | ---- | 11-7 | 5-9 | 4-3 |
| 2026 | 26-6 | 3-2 | 11-0 | --- | 14-2 | 12-4 | --- |
| Totals | 64-42 | 24-16 | 16-6 | 1-0 | 41-22 | 23-20 | 10-7 |
2025-26 (SENIOR)
- Appeared in all 21 matches and totaled 13 singles wins and 14 doubles wins.
- Finished ranked 20th in singles in the Ohio Valley Region.
- Earned All-ASUN First Team honors for the third straight season.
- Registered 11 matches with both a singles and doubles win.
- Posted a longest singles win streak of five and a longest doubles win streak of 11.
- Earned her 150th career win between singles and doubles during the ASUN Tournament.
SINGLES HIGHLIGHTS
- Played exclusively at No. 1 singles (21 matches), going 13-6 in the spring season.
- Finished with an overall 18-11 record between fall and spring matches.
- Defeated Lana Caculovic of Illinois State (2/28), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
- Picked up a three-set win in the ASUN Tournament Semifinals, knocking off Nora Svensson of Florida Gulf Coast, 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 (4/17).
DOUBLES HIGHLIGHTS
- Led the team in total doubles wins with a 26-6 overall record, including a 14-2 record in the spring season.
- Went a perfect 11-0 at the No. 2 position with partner Deborah Dominguez Collado.
- Duo went 20-3 on the year overall, including a finalist finish at the Milwaukee Tennis Classic (9/25-28). Paladi/Dominguez Collado had two set break wins to advance to the final.
- Won her fifth career ASUN Player of the Week honor (2/3) after helping the Bisons to a come-from-behind win over Middle Tennessee State (1/31) that saw her and Dominguez Collado clinch the doubles point, 6-3.
- Adding 12 doubles wins in the fall, she and partner Martina Bovio defeated Purdue 8-6 during the ITA Ohio Valley Regional Qualifying Draw (10/16-21).
2024-25 (JUNIOR)
- Earned All-ASUN First Team accolades for a second consecutive season
- Won ASUN Player of the Week twice
- Academically, she was named the ASUN Women’s Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year and a member of the All-Academic Team
SINGLES HIGHLIGHTS
- Improved her season-best in wins by one to 26 and added 15 dual wins in 19 matches played
- Earned second straight All-ASUN First Team selection thanks to a 6-2 record. All of her ASUN wins came in straight sets
- Finished 16th in the ITA Ohio Valley Singles rankings thanks to a perfect 9-0 record against region foes
- Won ASUN Player of the Week on Jan. 29 after earning the match point with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Rachel Hermanova of Western Kentucky (1/26)
- Earned her fourth career weekly award two weeks later (Feb. 12) after winning a three-set battle with Daniela Rivera of East Tennessee State (2/8), 6-2, 4-6, 6-2
- Added 11 wins in the fall season and advanced to the Round of 16 in the Qualifying Draw of the ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships (10/10-15)
- Qualified for the Milwaukee Tennis Classic (9/27-29) and defeated Salakthip Ounmang of Oklahoma in the opening round, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4
DOUBLES HIGHLIGHTS
- Went 11-7 in the spring season and totaled 16 wins overall
- Went 10-6 at the top flight, including 7-3 with partner Mariia Dolzhenko
- During the fall, the duo picked up two wins in the main draw of the ITA Regional Championships
- Also split time with partner Serafima Bobrovnikova, who earned the doubles point with a 7-6 (7) dub at the No. 1 flight against Murray State (2/22)
2023-24 (SOPHOMORE)
- Earned All-ASUN First Team laurels for the first time in her career after winning 42 matches between singles and doubles
- Secured ASUN Player of the Week honors twice
SINGLES HIGHLIGHTS
- A strong performance with the Bisons in her second year, she finished with a 25-4 overall record, including a team-high 19 dual wins
- Won the ASUN Player of the Week (2/7) after four wins over Murray State (2/3) and Western Kentucky (2/4), including a 6-2, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (8) effort vs. Rachel Hermanova of WKU
- Recorded her second weekly honor a month later (3/6) after picking up a straight-set win vs. Brianna Wilbur of Wofford (3/2)
- Went 9-1 in conference play en route to first All-ASUN accoalde, including a 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (4) dub vs. Ema Baraniakova of Kennesaw State (3/24)
- Of her 10 ASUN matches, three went to a deciding third set
- Also won six singles matches during the fall, including back-to-back super tiebreak wins over Sasha Parkhomenko of Eastern Kentucky (6-1, 3-6, 1-0 [7]) and Lilly-Sophie Schmidt of Middle Tennessee State (4-6, 6-3, 1-0 [5]) (10/6-8)
DOUBLES HIGHLIGHTS
- Tied for second-most wins on the team with 17, including an 11-5 mark at the top flight
- Finished campaign with a five-match win streak
- Playing all of her matches with partner Mariia Dolzhenko
- After playing at the No. 3 and No. 2 spots in the lineup in the first two matches, the duo moved up to the top of the lineup from Murray State (2/3) until the rest of the season and went 11-5
- Earned doubles point, 7-6 (1) at Middle Tennessee State (2/10) to help defeat Blue Raiders for the first time in Lipscomb’s Division I era (since 2004)
2022-23 (FRESHMAN)
- Secured All-ASUN Freshman Team honors with combined 23 combined wins between singles and doubles
SINGLES HIGHLIGHTS
- Played primarily at the No. 2 spot for the Bisons in her freshman year, going 18-14
- Went 10-10 in the spring season
- Won five of her first six matches in spring duals, including a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 dub against Michelle Ncube of Georgia State (1/27)
- Picked up four ASUN wins, including the clincher against Esther Lovato of No. 73 Liberty (3/18), 6-3, 0-6, 7-5 to give the Bisons the victory over the ranked Flames
- Added eight wins during the fall season, including two at the ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships
DOUBLES HIGHLIGHTS
- Only played 11 dual matches in doubles, going 3-8 in the spring and 5-15 overall
- With partner Alina Cherniaieva, the duo took the doubles point with a 7-5 victory in the ASUN Tournament vs. Central Arkansas (4/15)
HIGH SCHOOL
- Prepped under direction of coach Eduard Makarov
- Achieved ranking of #8 in her home country of Ukraine
- Ranked #545 by the ITF
- Highest UTR ranking of 9.2
- Finalist in singles and doubles in an all-Ukrainian qualifying competition for under-18s
- Semi-finalist in Ukrainian team tournament "President's Cup"
- Won Championship of Odessa region in the adults category
- Quarter-finalist in the Championship of Ukraine
- Won the Championship of Lviv
PERSONAL
- Daughter of Marina and Evhen Paladi
- Plans to major in Marketing
- Favorite band is Twenty One Pilots
- Lists drawing as a hidden talent
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