
Malkia Ngounoue
Year-by-Year Stats: 2019 | 2020 | 2021
Career Honors:
- (2019) All-Big 12 Doubles Second Team
- (2021) All-Big 12 singles First Team
Spring 2021:
- Notched eight singles victories primarily at the No. 2 position, with one win at the No. 1 spot against Kansas State’s Karine Marion-Job in the Big 12 Women’s Tennis Tournament opening match to propel the Jayhawks into the second round
- Seven doubles wins on the season with partner Julia Deming mostly, spent some time paired with Carmen Roxana Manu as well
- Singles victories: Tulsa, Arizona, Iowa State, SEMO, Wichita State, West Virginia, #10 Baylor, monumental win over Kansas State (7-6, 5-7, 7-5)
- Doubles wins: Arizona, Iowa State, SEMO, West Virginia, Kansas State, #10 Baylor and #24 Oklahoma
- Helped team set a new GPA program best of 3.64
- Named to All-Big 12 Singles First Team during postseason
Spring 2020:
- Compiled a 4-6 overall record in singles at the No. 2 position and a 6-5 overall doubles record with teammates Luniuska Delgado (3-5), Julia Deming (2-0) and Maria Toran Ribes (1-0)
- Registered singles wins over Carmen Palumbo (Drake), Esther Thebault (Wichita State), Shura Poppe (Tulsa) and Inci Ogut (Northwestern)
Spring 2019:
- Tallied an overall singles record of 7-3 in her freshman season at the No. 4 and 6 positions, with a 6-1 record on court 6
- Paired up with Maria Toran Ribes in doubles; the duo notched a 17-3 record at the No. 3 position
- Named to the All-Big 12 Doubles Second Team
- Named the All-Big 12 Tournament No. 3 Doubles Team
Fall 2018:
- Reached the Singles Big 5 Challenge Singles Final
- Made it to the Doubles Final at the H-E-B Invitational
- Participated at the ITA Regional Championships
- Reached the Singles Marliss Gruver Fall Invitational Final
High School:
- No. 5-ranked prospect in the 2018 recruiting class by TennisRecruiting.net
- Ranked as high as No. 1 in the United States Tennis Association (USTA) rankings in the 10-and-under, 12-and-under, 14-and-under and 16-and-under age groups
- Ranked as high as No. 5 in the 18-and-under age group
- Rated as high as No. 192 in the junior world rankings by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)
- Won the doubles championship at the Corpus Christi ITF
- Advanced to the singles semifinals and was a doubles finalist at the International Grass Court Championships
- Advanced to the Round of 16 at the Pan American ITF and the Round of 32 at the Orange Bowl International Championships
Personal: Daughter of Aime Ngounoue and Cicily Ade … Majoring in psychology and sociology.