Spring season ✅ #GoPack pic.twitter.com/nO77WWRo0j

— NC State Women's Tennis 🐺🎾 (@PackWTennis) May 21, 2025

9th & 10th ITA All Americans in @PackWTennis program history!!

Hit all 3 criteria:
ITA All American Doubles Champions ✅
NCAA Doubles Quarterfinals ✅
Top 10 Final Ranking: #5 ✅

&…..

3️⃣6️⃣ Wins - Most for a Doubles team in a Single season in Program History!!!!#GoPack 🐺🐾 https://t.co/rMGXJTprtn

— Simon Earnshaw (@CoachEarnshaw) May 27, 2025

After 1 season at NC State, Gabia Paskauskas (UTR 10.17) is transferring and has verbally committed to @GatorsWTN for fall of 2025. Played at #6 singles with singles record of 21-8 & an ITA singles high rank of #73. Entered college with an ITF juniors career-high ranking of #61. pic.twitter.com/uPvwtVCRYM

— Parsa Bombs 💣 (@ParsaBombs) May 28, 2025

Realized I put this in the wrong thread

FlockaWolf said:

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After 1 season at NC State, Gabia Paskauskas (UTR 10.17) is transferring and has verbally committed to @GatorsWTN for fall of 2025. Played at #6 singles with singles record of 21-8 & an ITA singles high rank of #73. Entered college with an ITF juniors career-high ranking of #61. pic.twitter.com/uPvwtVCRYM

— Parsa Bombs 💣 (@ParsaBombs) May 28, 2025

Realized I put this in the wrong thread

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A little bit odd, since her sister (Kristina Paskauskas) has been with the Wolfpack for the past two years, and as of right now appears to plan to return to NC State for her junior year. And from social media it appears that the two sisters are extremely close. I suspect that the reason Gabia may be transferring is for playing time. Before Laki got injured, Gabia was apparently our #7 singles player, and played #6 singles for us near the end of the year after Laki was out of the lineup. Looking at our roster for next season, we are bringing in the very highly rated freshman Victoria Osuigwe, who I would certainly expect to be among our top 6 at the start of the team competition in 2026. And if Laki returns from injury as well, then that would likely push Gabia down to #8 in singles on our roster, and therefore she would not likely see much playing time in the team competition season for us.

Thanks for the insight. I figured it was a bigger loss since she was ranked top 100 to end the season

FlockaWolf said:

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Thanks for the insight. I figured it was a bigger loss since she was ranked top 100 to end the season

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Those ITA rankings are weird sometimes, and a player might be ranked much higher or lower than they "should" be. Gabia is a solid player, but we will be loaded next year with probably 7 players better than her. And of course you only play 6 players in singles in team competition. Aside from her, as of now it looks like we will be returning everyone from this past years' team, and adding the freshman Osuigwe, that is the #2 US recruit in the 2025 class. If everyone else is back and Laki can return from injury close to top form, IMO we will be a top 3-4 team in the country next year. Even without Laki, probably in the 5-10 range.

Andreeva/Shnaider defeat Lumaden/Santamaria 6-0, 6-0

Next match
June 1
Vs Garcia/Perry

Michaela Laki posted on Instagram yesterday about this recent interview she did. The interview is in Greek, but of course you can turn on subtitles and auto-translate into English.

From about the 2:00 to 8:15 minute mark in the video, she talks about her progress since the injury to her knee. She says she had the surgery on April 30th, and that just this week is the first week she has been able to walk without crutches. She was told it would be about 8 months after the surgery until she could play again, and says here in the interview that she expects to be playing again by January or February of next year.

So from this interview it definitely sounds like she intends to return to NC State for the team competition season in 2026.

GuerrillaPack said:

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Michaela Laki posted on Instagram yesterday about this recent interview she did. The interview is in Greek, but of course you can turn on subtitles and auto-translate into English.

From about the 2:00 to 8:15 minute mark in the video, she talks about her progress since the injury to her knee. She says she had the surgery on April 30th, and that just this week is the first week she has been able to walk without crutches. She was told it would be about 8 months after the surgery until she could play again, and says here in the interview that she expects to be playing again by January or February of next year.

So from this interview it definitely sounds like she intends to return to NC State for the team competition season in 2026.

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Thank you

Update from Michaela Laki on her recovery.

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Rehab isn't a setback it's a setup for a stronger return.
2.5 months post op ACL + meniscus reconstruction
Ahead of schedule, locked into process.
Still early. Still focused. Still working.
Let's keep pushing

Massive thank you to @kostas_kalampakas and @nikos_kalampakas at @physiopraxislarisa for their constant support and expert treatment throughout my rehab journey.

And a huge shoutout to Rachel Anderson physio for @packwtennis team for her incredible help and input throughout the early stage of my recovery.

Go pack !!!

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