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NAGATO MOMOKO
5-9 • Junior Tokyo Gakkan Funabashi HS Abiko, Chiba, Japan
2021-22 (Sophomore)
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• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Posted a record of 25-26 during her sophomore season, with a 15-13 doubles record
• Primarily played in the No. 2 doubles position
• Went 15-7 during the fall campaign
• She and Pei-Ju Hsieh defeated Old Dominion’s Alcaide and Viktorovich, 8-7(3) to advance to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA) Super Regional quarterfinals; marked WVU’s first quarterfinal appearance since 2019
2020-21 (Freshman)
• Posted a record of 9-10 during her first season at WVU; primarily playing in the No. 2 singles and doubles positions
• Started the spring on a four-match win streak, winning both of her contests against Cleveland State and Youngstown State
• Defeated Kansas State’s Rosanna Mafei in a three-set, tiebreaker to claim the first Big 12 singles win of her career
• Began the fall season by earning a trio of wins to claim a secondplace finish at the ITA Fall Circuit in Morgantown
• Finished the fall with a 3-1 record
Prep
• Played for Coach Yasushi Nagashima at Tokyo Gakkan Funabashi High
• Also played club tennis for TTC under Coach Hiroshi Mori
Personal
• Daughter of Hideki and Chifuyu Nagato
• Has two brothers
• Birthday is June 3
• Majoring in business
• Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll
• Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll