Had a very good season last year playing in the two spot … Had a great fall season as well … Coming in with more confidence this year … Should play either one or two in singles and number one in doubles … Excellent backcourt game.
SENIOR (2009-10): In the fall, defeated Christian Lange 6-4, 6-2 in the singles gold flight at the ERAU Open … Advanced to the ERAU semifinals after beating Peter Francis from Embry-Riddle 6-3, 6-3 … Beat Nick Rowlands in the first round of the ITA DII South Regional Championships … Took down Andrey Pozhidaev 6-4, 4-6, 10-7 in the round of 16 at the ITA Regional to advance to the semifinals … Entered the fall as the #15 player in the nation … Played mostly at the number one and number two spot in the lineup … Took regular season wins over #14 Neil Clausen from Rollins, and #3 Andrey Boldarev from Concordia … Tailed a clutch post season win against #26 Tomas Racak in the SSC tournament to help the Bucs in a 5-4 win over #3 Lynn … Defeated #2 Armstrong Atlantic's #6 Eudaldo Bonet in the national quarterfinals 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 to clinch a Buccaneer win … Earned a #17 final ranking and a spot on the ITA All-America team … Assembled a 17-7 doubles record for the season … Defeated Valdosta State's pair of #15 Daniel Dueren and Christian Hansen 9-7 with partner Andrew Sharnov in the second match of the year … Collected regular season doubles wins over #13 Florida Southern, #10 Rollins, #9 Concordia, #7 West Florida, #5 Hawaii-Pacific, and #6 Ouachita Baptist … Partnered with Max Wimmer for post season play and defeated #7 Florida Southern's top pair of #12 Michael Knoedler and Roman Schirmaier … Bested Lynn's #3 team of Alessandro Sarra and willi Wolfer in the SSC Tournament Finals … Topped West Florida's #6 team of Kevin Ducros and Leandro Ferreira in the NCAA Regionals 8-5 … Beat the #2 doubles team in the nation of Alex Grubin and Andrey Bolderev from Concordia in the NCAA Nationals Semifinals 8-6 … Named to the fall 2009 Dean's List … Concluded his senior campaign with a #17 national ranking and his three-year career at Barry as a three-time singles All-American and a two-time doubles All-American.
JUNIOR (2008-09): Finished the fall season ranked #18 in Division II ... Won the ITA South Regional, beating the number one seed, Julien Carsuzza of Lynn ... Advanced to the consolation round of the ITA Championship ...Went 6-2 in singles and 4-1 in doubles with partner Roman Werschel … Completed the spring with a 12-3 singles record and a 20-2 doubles record despite battling injury the entire season … Played in the #1 position for every match except one … Beat nationally ranked opponents #32 Roman Schirmaier from Florida Southern and #14 Hendrik Bode from Hawaii Pacific … Dubbed an All-American for the second time in his career … Named to the First-Team All-Sunshine State Conference … Earned a spot on the Sunshine State Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll and the Barry University Spring 2009 Athletic Director’s List.
SOPHOMORE (SPRING 2008): Split majority of time between the one and two positions earning a 10-5 mark ... Went 11-5 overall ... Beat 37th ranked Federico Levi of Drury in the third round of the NCAA Division II National Championship ... Beat three nationally ranked opponents including a win against Valdosta State’s Florian Halb on Feb 2 ... Went 15-7 in doubles including 4-0 in the number one position with partner Roman Werschel ... Was an ITA All-American in singles and doubles.
CLUB & PREVIOUS COLLEGE: Played for coach Don Barr at the University of South Florida for one season ... While playing with the Bulls he posted a 5-3 record at #1 singles and a 1-3 record in doubles ... Posted quality victories as a freshman ... Was ranked as high as 6th in Slovenia in singles competition ... Won a high school championship his senior year.
PERSONAL: Son of Janko Svigelo and Irena Svigelj-Dovjak ... Computer information systems major.
