HONOLULU—The University of Hawai'i women's teannis team (2-1, 1-0 Big West) wraps up its season-starting month-long homestand with a pair of dual matches against Saint Mary's (CA) and North Dakota. The Rainbow Wahine will take on the Gaels (0-1, WCC) on Thursday, Jan. 30 at 10:00 a.m. HT followed by the Fighting Hawks (2-0, Summit League) on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 11:00 a.m. HT. Both matches will be held at the UH Tennis Complex.
 

DUAL MATCH #4
Opponent				Saint Mary's (CA)
Dates - Start Times:				Thursday, Jan. 30 - 10:00 a.m. HT
Site				UH Tennis Complex - Honolulu, O'ahu
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DUAL MATCH #5
Opponent				North Dakota
Dates - Start Times:				Saturday, Feb. 1 - 11:00 a.m. HT
Site				UH Tennis Complex - Honolulu, O'ahu
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 HAWAI'I RAINBOW WAHINE (2-1, 1-0 Big West)• The Rainbow Wahine enter Week 5 with a 2-1 overall record. Last week, they opened their Big West season with a 5-2 win over CSUN. The 'Bows won the doubles point then jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead before the Matadors started rallying for a pair of wins on courts 3 and 4. UH's No. 2 Peppi Ramstedt clinched the match winning by retirement over Victoria Santibañez Luna in three sets. UH's No. 1 Ana Vilcek then held off CSUN's Yuliia Zhytelna in three sets to cement the win.
• In singles, Joelle Lanz leads Hawai'i with a 5-4 overall record. she has won three of her last four matches--including a 6-1, 6-2 win over CSUN's Madison Shepperson. Ramstedt is right behind Lanz with a 4-5 record and she is now a perfect 3-0 in dual matches. 
• In doubles, UH's Hannah Galindo/Makeilah Nepomuceno and Nikola Homolkova/Vilcek are tied for a team-best 4-7 overall record. In dual matches, Galindo and Nepomuceno lead UH with a 2-1 record.
• The Rainbow Wahine opened the season with a pair of high-powered tournaments. First UH hosted No. 9 UCLA and No. 10 California in the Rainbow Wahine Spring Invitational to open 2025. The 'Bows followed by hosting the defending NCAA Champions and No. 2-ranked Texas A&M Aggies and the 17th-ranked USC Trojans last week in the four-day Weinman Foundation Invitational.

SAINT MARY'S GAELS (0-1, West Coast Conferenc)Series Record: UH leads series, 9-3
Streak: SMC won the last two meetings
Last meeting: The Gaels won the last meeting on April 13, 2008 in Fresno, Calif., 6-1. UH and SMC were supposed to play again in 2019 in Moraga, Calif., but were rained out.
Team notes: Last week, St. Mary's lost its first dual match of the season to Big West opponent UC Davis 4-3. The Aggies held off the Gaels for the doubles point that was decided on a 7-6 (12-10) win by UCD's Mika Ikemori/Isabella Bringas over SMC's MiaAngelina Ruga and Olivia Rook on the No. 2 Court. St. Mary's Iman Khan (No. 1), Olivia Rook (No. 4) and Stefanie Silva (No. 5) all recorded singles wins.
• Junior Madison Weekley earned the WCC's Singles Player of the Week to start the season after going a perfect 3-0 at the Cal Winter Invite.

NORTH DAKOTA FIGHTING HAWKS (2-0, Summit League)Series Record: First meeting
Streak: None
Team notes: The Fighting Hawks have started the 2025 season with road wins at Eastern Illinois (6-1) and at Lindenwood (7-0).
• North Dakota will face Hawai'i Pacific first on Friday, Jan. 31 prior to their match vs. UH
• Junior Andrea Pineda earned the Summit League's Performer of the Week award after going 2-0  in both singles at No. 1 and 2-0 at No. 3 doubles. 
• In all, five players have started the season at 2-0 in singles and in doubles, all three pairs enter this week undefeated
• Both the men's and women's North Dakota tennis teams will be playing UH on Saturday.