FALL 2015: Maintained No. 1 ranking in singles after taking home NAIA national championship crown ... Posted 4-0 record to lift second consecutive ITA regional crown ... Fell in semifinals of Small College Super Bowl ... Put together 4-2 record in doubles with Helga Pinones-Haltenhoff, dropping the final of the regional and semifinal of the national championship.
SPRING 2015: First Team All-American ... Finished season ranked No. 1 in the NAIA ... Put together 14-1 mark in singles while playing entirely at the No. 1 position ... Posted perfect 3-0 mark at NAIA National Championships, highlighted by a win over previous No. 1 Nour Abbes of Xavier (La.) ... Also went 14-4 in doubles, including a 13-4 mark with Laura Wehner at the No. 1 spot ... Duo finished the season ranked No. 3 nationally.
FALL 2014: Collected nine wins over 11 singles matches ... Earned a berth into the ITA National Small College Championships after falling in the final of the regional ... Beat Belhaven's Sara Caroline Kimbal, Xavier (La.)'s Brion Flowers and the Auburn-Montgomery duo of Celine Lenertz and Alice Baudeign before losing to Xavier's Nour Abbes ... Won opening match at the national event, dispatching Indiana Wesleyan's Katie Wilson by a score of 7-6, 6-0 ... Also claimed the Grizzly Open singles title, beating two players (Ana Pain and Elisabeth Abanda) from defending NCAA Division II national champion Barry and one (Katarina Su) from Division III champ Emory ... Went 1-1 in doubles, teaming with Chiara Di Salvo to advance to the quarterfinals of the ITA regional.
SPRING 2014: First Team All-American … Went 14-4, peaking at No. 3 in the national rankings … Debuted with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Clayton State’s Raluca Pavel … The win was part of a 10-match winning streak to begin her Grizzly career … Played primarily at No. 1, collecting 10 wins in 14 matches … Won only two decisions at NAIA National Tournament, beating Lindsey Wilson’s Alejandra Galvis and Embry-Riddle’s Hui-I Huang, who were ranked Nos. 16 and 15, respectively, by the ITA … Posted 19-3 mark in doubles, playing all but one match with Helena Korompis at No. 1 … Duo peaked at No. 3 in the national rankings … Won three out of four matches at the national tournament … Began season with 12 consecutive victories.
PERSONAL: Born Valeria Epifania Hendrika Podda on April 30, 1992, in Leiderdorp, Netherlands ... Daughter of Celestino Podda and Catharina Podda-Van Veen.
