Aleksandra Josifoska

Class: Sophomore Hometown: Skopje, Macedonia High School: Georgi Dimitrov

Height: 5-7 Experience: 1L

*2011 AlL-MW SINGLES*

*2011 AlL-MW DOUBLES*

UNLV: A rising talent on the court who turned in the best fall season among the Lady Rebels ... Ranked 87th to begin the spring and will vie for the top spot in the singles lineup as a sophomore ... Also ranked No. 1 in singles in the Mountain Region ... Out-dueled teammate and defending champion Lucia Batta to give her program its second consecutive singles title at the USTA/ITA Mountain Region Championships at the Fertitta Tennis Complex in October ... Ranked 117th at the time, she upset No. 95 Batta 6-0, 0-6, 6-2 to mark UNLV's third-ever ITA regional championship ... That followed Josifoska upsetting top-seeded and 64th-ranked Anastasia Putilina of Utah, 6-3, 6-1, in the semifinals ... Having earned the bid to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships, Josifoska posted one of the biggest upsets in program history as she stunned the nation's third-ranked singles player in the first round of consolation play, downing Notre Dame's Kristy Frilling 6-4, 6-4 at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, NY ... Finished 10-5 overall in singles and 5-4 in doubles during fall play ... One of a program-record seven Lady Rebels to earn Academic All-Mountain West in 2011 ... One of the top players from her home nation, she earned a career-high world ranking of 466 in singles and 543 in doubles in September 2009.

2011: Named All-Mountain West in both singles and doubles after winning a total of 43 combined singles and doubles matches as a rookie ... Her 24-5 singles mark included a sparkling 19-3 record in duals and 7-1 effort in MW play ... The duals season included a 12-match winning streak ... Closed her first season with a 6-1, 6-2 win over San Diego's Josymar Escalona in UNLV's first-round NCAA tournament loss ... Her 19-12 doubles mark included a 5-3 mark vs. conference foes playing alongside partner Nives Pavlovic ... Ranked college tennis' No. 10 newcomer in a preseason poll by the ITA ... Ended the season ranked No. 15 in the ITA Mountain Region in singles and No. 5 in doubles ... Her winning percentage of .828 in singles ranked third in UNLV single-season history ... Finished 5-2 in her first semester of tournament play ... Earned the Flight One Singles co-championship with teammate Batta at UNLV Fall Invitational in September ... Compiled a 7-2 mark in doubles while playing with two partners and she and Nives Pavlovic stood No. 4 in the ITA Mountain Region in the January rankings. HIGH SCHOOL: A graduate of Georgi Dimitrov High School ... Earned juniors rankings as high as No. 3 in the nation.

PERSONAL: Alesksandra Josifoska was born on March 5, 1991, in Prilep, Macedonia ... The daughter of Sonja and Ljube Josifoska ... Has an older brother, Hristijan ... Favorite tennis player is Roger Federer ... Majoring in hospitality management.

Josifoska's Collegiate Record
SINGLES
Year	Tour.	Dual	(MW)	Total
2010-11	5-2	19-3	7-1	24-5
DOUBLES
Year	Tour.	Dual	(MW)	Total
2010-11	7-2	12-10	5-3	19-12
CAREER-HIGH SINGLES RANK: 87 (Jan. 3, 2011)