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Valeria Chaikovskaia
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Togliatti, Russia
- High School:
- High School N32
At Murray State
Before MSU
- Enters the 2025-26 seasons with a career singles record of 46-26 and 17-20 in doubles.
- In 2024-2025 was 28-11 in singles and 14-16 in doubles.
- 2025 All-MVC First Team Selection at #1 Doubles with Bruna Melato.
- 2025 All-MVC Second Team Selection at #1 Singles.
- MVC Doubles Team of the Week with Bruna Melato: April 2nd, March 26th
- MVC Singles Player of the Week: March 19th, February 5th.
- 2024 MVC Fall Individual Championships Singles Flight 1 Runner-up.
- 2024 ITA Ohio Valley Regional Rd of 16. First player in program history to advance to the Rd of 16 at the ITA Ohio Valley Regionals.
- Played the entire season at the #1 singles spot and primarily at the #1 doubles spot.
- In 2023-2024, as a freshman, was 18-15 in single and 3-4 doubles.
- MVC Singles Player of the Week: April 10th, March 13th.
- Clinched Murray State’s first ever MVC Tournament Championship in any sport with a win over the 2022 MVC Player of the Year Tijana Zlatanovic from Illinois State.
- Played at the #1 spot in singles her entire freshman season.
- Recorded wins over SEMO’s Daniela Hlacikova (2024 and 2023 OVC Player of the Year), Lipscomb’s Sasha Dobranos (2024 ASUN Player of the Year), Illinois State’s Tijana Zlatanovic (2022 MVC Player of the Year), Drake’s Ines Stephani (2024 and 2023 MVC Player of the Year), UIC’s Agnes Gustafsson (2022 Horizon League Player of the Year), and Belmont’s Mariia Hlahola (2024 MVC Co-Player of the Year).
Before MSU
- Attended School 32
- Ranked 19th in Russia among her age group
- Two-time singles champion of the Cyprus Junior Tournament Championship
- Won the doubles title at the Tatarstan Junior Championships
- Runner-Up at the Tarpischev Cup
- Born February 1, 2004
- Daughter of Evgeniia and Afanasii Shapochkin
- Majoring in Biology Pre Med
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