2021-22 Women's Tennis Roster
Roster
Alicia Herrero Linana
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Cidead
- Prev School:
- Vilareal Tennis club
- Hometown:
- Manuel Valencia, Spain
• 2022 ITA All-American
• 2022 All-Big 12 Second Team Singles
• 2022 All-Big 12 First Team Doubles
• 2022 ITA Texas Region Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award
• 2022 ITA Texas Region Arthur Ashe Sportsmanship and Leadership Award
• 2021 All-Big 12 Second Team Singles
• 2021 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• 2020 Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
• 2020 ITA All-Academic Scholar
Spring 2022 (3rd Year Senior)
Finished her Baylor career with her most successful season in Waco … Went 13-14 overall on the year with a 7-11 mark in dual play … Stayed in the middle of the lineup with most of her time spent on Court Two where she went 4-7 … Received a pair of ITA Region Awards as she was named the Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award winner along with the Arthur Ashe Sportsmanship and Leadership Award winner … Named Big 12 Player of the Week after logging back-to-back wins over ranked opponents in doubles action … Along with Mel Krywoj, became the first Baylor tandem to receive a No. 1 national ranking by the ITA … The duo advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Doubles Championships … All-Big 12 First Team doubles … Named an All-American.
Fall 2021 (3rd Year Senior)
Ranked No. 110 in the ITA Preseason Poll … Came in at No. 13 by the ITA in doubles along with Mel Krywoj … Topped No. 10 Tatiana Makarova of Texas A&M in the ITA Regionals (10/16) … Along with Krywoj became the first Baylor doubles team to win the ITA Regional title since 2016 … Finished runner up in singles at ITA Regionals … Upset the top-seeded doubles team of Anna Brylin and Brooke Killingsworth of Wake Forest at ITA Fall Nationals (11/6) … Finished ITA Fall Nationals semifinalists … Defeated No. 43 Taylor Bridges of LSU (11/14)
2020-21 (2nd-Year Junior)
Named Second-Team All-Big 12 with a 13-9 dual-match record and a 4-4 mark in singles in the spring vs. Big 12 opponents … Went 18-5 in doubles play in the spring with a 5-2 conference record … Went 7-0 in the spring on the No. 3 doubles court, including a 3-0 mark in Big 12 play with teammate Audrey Boch-Collins … Strung together a seven-match win streak with her last win of the fall and the first six matches in the spring … Named Academic All-Big 12 First Team … Collected a 7-5 record on the singles court in the fall ... Picked up a consolation bracket win Nov. 8 at the Fall Series Championships in Stillwater, Okla. ... Duplicated her singles record on the doubles court with a 7-5 mark, exclusively with teammate Mel Krywoj ... Herrero Linana and Krywoj reached the Fall Series Championships title match in Stillwater, Okla. Nov. 8 before falling resulting in a 3-1 weekend.
Spring 2020 (Junior):
Went 10-4 in the spring with a team-best nine wins in dual-match play with just two losses … Won both Big 12 singles matches … Went 3-1 on the No. 2 court, 2-0 on the No. 3 court and 4-1 on the No. 4 court … Collected a 7-4 record on the doubles court, teaming up with Mel Krywoj to post a 5-1 record on the season … The duo was 5-1 as a pair in the spring, all on the No. 1 court … Named an ITA Scholar-Athlete and was an Academic All-Big 12 Second Team selection.
2018-19:
Served a year-in residence beginning in the Spring of 2019.
Prep/Juniors:
Attended Cidead school in Manuel, Spain … Played for the Vilareal Tennis Club for coach Vicente Borja … Named Champion of the Valencian Community in doubles … advanced to the finals in doubles in Hammamet ITF in May of 2018 … was a finalist in singles in the 25K Valencia Open in 2016 … Held an ITF doubles ranking as high as No. 626 in 2017 and was ranked as high as No. 921 in singles … Ranked No. 51 in the Spain Open Women’s National Ranking.
Personal:
Born 29 Dec. 1998 … enjoys table tennis and reading biographies of athletes ... Majoring in Communication.
