UNLV REBELS

Marianne Bakken

Class: Senior Hometown: Rykkinn, Norway High School: Norwegian Top Athletic

Height: 5-6 Experience: 3L

AT UNLV: One of the top doubles players in school history returns for her final campaign … Expected to move down in the singles lineup this spring … Will look for career year after spending the last two years at No. 3 spot … One half of the best Lady Rebel doubles team in history (2000) heads into final season ranked fifth in career doubles winning percentage at the school (.641) and tied for fifth in overall victories with 50 … Needs just seven doubles wins to take over third place while 13 more victories will move her past Marianne Vallin into second … Will team with new partner Gyorgyi Zsiros at one of three doubles positions … Had a strong final fall season with a 7-4 singles record, including winning the third flight title of the UNLV Invitational … Also downed Ashley Robards of Tennessee to win the consolation bracket of January’s National Collegiate Tennis Classic in Las Vegas … A top student who was a repeat academic All-MWC honoree as well as the squad’s lone ITA Scholar-Athlete a year ago … Will once again write a weekly diary for the school’s website titled “Bakken Style” … 2001: Posted 12-15 record playing at the third singles spot … Defeated Linn Ronberg 7-6, 7-6 to help her team down Utah 4-3 in the fifth-place match at MWC tournament … Her 13-11 doubles record with three partners included a 10-6 mark with Amy Hadziosmanovic at No. 2 … 2000: Turned in strong year with 16-12 singles record, including a mark of 14-10 at the No. 3 spot … Won her final five singles matches of the season, including three straight-set victories in Lady Rebels’ run through MWC tourney, which culminated in program’s first league title … Teamed with All-American Katarina Malec to form the school’s best doubles team ever … Her 25-4 total set the school record for best single-season doubles winning percentage at .862 , shattering Ljiljana Kordic’s .833 set in 1993 … Named First Team All-MWC in doubles … Boasted a 15-match winning streak in the spring that included a stunning 9-8 (7-4) defeat of the nation’s top-ranked doubles team – Zuzana Lesenarova and Katarina Valkyova of San Diego -- in a dual match on April 2 … Earned trip to NCAA tournament and became first UNLV women’s duo to win a match at the event with a 6-0, 5-7, 6-2 win over 46th-ranked Maria Galoustova and Ashleigh Dolman of Oklahoma State on May 22 … A day later, the UNLV entry fell in three sets in the Round of 16 to eventual national champions Amy Jensen and Claire Curran of Cal, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 … After beginning the spring unranked, Bakken/Malec finished season with ITA ranking of 26th … 1999: Played in middle of lineup with best results coming at the No. 4 spot (7-5) … Also competed at No. 3 (3-7) and No. 5 (0-1) … Excelled at second doubles position with partner Veronica Goude, turning in a 7-3 record … Finished 12-13 in doubles playing with three partners overall.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 1998 graduate of Norwegian Top Athletic High School.

PERSONAL: Marianne Hedum Bakken was born on May 21, 1979, in Oslo … The daughter of Jon Kare and Trine Bakken … Has gone by the nickname “Hat Girl” … Majoring in managerial finance.

COLLEGIATE RECORD
Year	Singles	Doubles
1998-99	13-19	12-13
1999-00	16-12	25-4
2000-01	12-15	13-11
TOTAL	41-46	50-28