Amy Joubert

Height:
5-8
Class:
Senior
High School:
St. John's DSG
Hometown:
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

2009-10
Recieved the Mean Green Spirit and Mean Green Academic Awards ... Finished the spring season with a 6-4 record, including going 1-0 from both the four and five singles spots ... Stepped in during the Sun Belt Confrence Championship semi-finals and defeated Louisiana-Lafayette's Tara Vasovic 6-1, 6-2 ... Teamed up with Irina Paraschiv in doubles to finish the year 11-10 ... Collected a 2-7 record in the fall with one of her wins coming against Texas Tech's Kelsey Garland in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3 ... Played double with Paula Dinuta twice during the Texas Regional Championship, taking the first match over Sam Houston State before narrowly falling to a team from the University of Texas.

2008-09
Named the team's Most Valuable Player ... Received the Mean Green Spirit Award ... Led the squad in singles wins for the spring (15) ... Lost only one of her final 11 matches ... Was a force from the No. 6 position putting up a 10-1 record ... In the SBC semis, defeated No. 34 Denver's Bhavani Tirumurti in a two-set tiebreaker match 7-6 (6), 7-6 (10) ... Also won in two tiebreaks over Katie Orletsky of UCF ... Beat Rice's Varsha Shiva-Shankar in three sets (6-7, 6-4, 1-0) ... One of NT's best doubles players registering a 15-7 mark as part of two teams ... Teamed with Madura Ranganathan to go 7-3 from the top spot including an 8-3 victory over Troy's Rawia Elsisi and Leonie Guijt in the SBC quarterfinals ... Won versus Rice's Julie Chao and Ana Guzman (8-4) ... Tallied a 7-4 record with Rachel Wilhelm ... Took down No. 73 Louisville's duo of Sarah Miller and Amelia Harris (8-5) ... Had an even singles record of 8-8 during the fall ... Won her flight at the Mean Green Invitational ... Won two consolation finals, beating Sun Belt opponent Lena Satge of UL-Monroe at the Stephen F. Austin Invitational and Neila Starratt of Houston at the Rice Classic ... Registered a solid record of 13-4 in doubles overall ... Teamed with Rachel Wilhelm to go 12-2 earning North Texas' best record in doubles for the fall ... Won their finals match against Daiana Negreanu and Nicola Matovicova of UT-Arlington at the Rice Classic ... Went 3-1 at the ITA Southwest Regionals including a win over Texas A&M's team of Sheri Olivier and Lauren Santacroce ... She and Wilhelm won all three of their matches at the North Texas Classic featuring a victory over Ashley Turpin and Stephanie Davidson of Texas A&M.

2007-08
Posted a 10-9 dual record in the `08 Spring ... Went 4-3 in Sun Belt play ... Defeated Laetitia Tan of No. 70 Nevada in straight sets (6-0, 6-2) ... Played most of the season from the No. 5 and 6 spots ... Had records of 6-4 at No. 5 and 4-5 at No. 6 ... In Spring `08 doubles went 9-11 ... Played on the No. 1 team with Madura Ranganathan going 3-5 including a 2-0 record in the Sun Belt ... Went 6-3 with Idalina Franca at the No. 2 and 3 slots including 3-1 in Sun Belt play ... Participated in two tournaments during the fall in singles and recorded a 2-2 record ... Participated in five tournaments for doubles and recorded a 6-8 record ... Defeated Kyla Coleman of Texas Tech and Monica Neveklovska of SMU to start off her North Texas career at the Mean Green Invitational ... Defeated the No. 3 seeded doubles team of Laura Vallverdu and Michaela Kissell (Miami) 8-6 in Midland Tournament with partner Madura Ranganathan ... Finished in first place in flight with partner Ranganathan during the North Texas Classic.

High School
Was ranked No. 4 in singles and No. 1 in doubles in South Africa in the current South African U-18 Girls rankings ... Was ranked in the top ten in her country in all age groups (14's,16's 18's) ... Was selected to represent South Africa in the Junior African Championships as well as in International tournaments in Europe ... Played on the tennis, hockey and basketball A teams since she was 13 ... Was captain of the tennis team her senior year ... Made the provincial A teams for tennis and B teams for hockey.

Personal
Daughter of Fiona and Ryk Joubert ... Born on June 14, 1989 ... Has one sister, Kendra.