Tarleton State University Athletics

All-WAC Second Team (2025) 
CSC Academic All-District 
WAC Doubles Player of the Week (6x) 
Academic All-WAC (2023-25) 

Senior (2024-25): 
Finished her collegiate career with All-WAC Second Team honors with Emma Persson (Doubles) … Four-time WAC Doubles Player of the Week winner … Came up with an 11-5 doubles record and a 2-0 singles record, competing primarily at the No. 1 doubles spot … With Persson, co-led the Texans' doubles teams with 10 wins, helping Tarleton State clinch the doubles point in 70% of the matches they played in … Won her first four doubles matches with Persson in 2025, winning WAC Doubles Player of the Week on Jan. 28 … Avenged a doubles loss to Houston by clinching her next five doubles matches, winning three straight WAC Doubles Player of the Week honors in the process (Feb. 18, Feb. 25, March 4) … Won the two singles matches she played in, not losing a set … First singles victory of the season came at Incarnate Word (2/16) … Second singles win came against Tyler Junior College (3/6), coming up with her first bagel of the season … Won two of her final three doubles matches, with both coming against UT Arlington … Helped the Texans clinch the doubles point in the WAC Semifinals with her win on Court 2 against UT Arlington (4/18) … Named to College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.

Junior (2023-24):
Academic All-WAC … Twice named the Doubles Player of the Week … Played in the No. 1 doubles position in all 21 matches, paired with Martha Makantasi … Finished 15-6 in doubles, 4-3 in WAC play … Started 6-0 in doubles … Won the first two doubles matches in the WAC Tournament, a 6-1 victory over Stephen F. Austin in the opening round and a 6-4 victory over UT Arlington in the semifinals … Was Doubles Player of the Week for the week of Feb. 12-18 after going 2-1 with road wins at Louisiana Tech and Tyler Junior College … Earned her first Doubles Player of the Week for matches played Jan. 22-28 after going 2-0 with a 6-1 win over UTEP and a 6-2 win over New Mexico State … Had the tied-most doubles wins on the team … Went 6-3 in singles in her first season at Tarleton State, all at the No. 6 position … Won five straight singles matches from Jan. 27 through Feb. 15, all straight set wins, including victories over New Mexico State (6-1 6-1) and Oral Roberts (6-0 6-0) … Also blanked Prairie View A&M’s Cierra Garcia 6-0 6-0 in her final singles match.
 
Liberty:
ITA Scholar-Athlete … ASUN Academic Honor Roll … Played two seasons at Liberty (2021-23), a program that advanced to at least the ASUN Tournament Semifinals in each of her years, going 36-17 overall, 12-5 in conference play ... Went 7-11 overall in singles in dual match play, plus a 14-15 mark on Tour … Also logged 23 doubles wins across dual match and tour play over the two seasons.
 
Hoërskool Stellenbosch:
Reached the No. 1 ranking in U18 girls combined, U18 girls doubles and open mixed doubles in South Africa … Ranked as high as No. 3 in the South Africa women's rankings and No. 312 in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Junior Tennis Tour Rankings … Compiled a 103-16 junior tournament record over the final two years of her junior tennis career.
 
Personal:
Hometown is Ashton, South Africa … Graduated from Hoërskool Stellenbosch in the Western Cape province in December 2020 … Went to boarding school and hostel for high school to be closer to tennis academy … Used to play many sports in high school; field hockey, netball with track and field events (javelin, discus, shot put, 3000m, 1200m, 800m) … Daughter of Jacobus Christiaan Burger and Ester Susan-Mari Burger … Has two sisters, San-Mari and Jané, and one brother, Christiaan … Her dad was a student athlete in South Africa in rugby and cricket ... Her mother works in a state hospital … Her brother is on the national wrestling team … Majoring in kinesiology exercise and sport studies while minoring in sport psychology … Nickname is Matta … Born Nov. 25.