Spring season β #GoPack pic.twitter.com/nO77WWRo0j
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Spring season β #GoPack pic.twitter.com/nO77WWRo0j
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9th & 10th ITA All Americans in @PackWTennis program history!!
— Simon Earnshaw (@CoachEarnshaw) May 27, 2025
Hit all 3 criteria:
ITA All American Doubles Champions β
NCAA Doubles Quarterfinals β
Top 10 Final Ranking: #5 β
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3οΈβ£6οΈβ£ Wins - Most for a Doubles team in a Single season in Program History!!!!#GoPack πΊπΎ https://t.co/rMGXJTprtn
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 π£ (@ParsaBombs) May 28, 2025
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.FlockaWolf said: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 π£ (@ParsaBombs) May 28, 2025
Realized I put this in the wrong thread
FlockaWolf said:
Thanks for the insight. I figured it was a bigger loss since she was ranked top 100 to end the season
Thank youGuerrillaPack said:
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.