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2007: Became just the second player in women's tennis history to win consecutive GSC Player of the Year honors...Earned her second All-GSC First Team honor... Singles: Finished the season ranked fifth... Won 10 of her first 12 matches... Posted an 8-3 record against ranked opponents... Defeated USC-Upstate's 16th ranked Anna Novo in straight sets (2/10)... The following day, she knocked off 24th ranked Raluca Moldovan of Columbus State (2/11)... Twice lost the first set to ninth-ranked Raphaelle Durante of Valdosta State, but came back to win in the regular season (2/23) and in the GSC Final (4/22)... Only lost three games during a stretch from Mar. 10-21... Earned a three-set win over 27th ranked Celine Martin of Georgia College (3/30)... Won three wins in the national tournament in straight sets... Recorded a 6-3, 6-3 win over 11th ranked Inga Chilingaryan of California University of Pennsylvania in the national quarterfinal (5/10)... Doubles: Played all but two matches with Paola Arevalo to form the 15th ranked team in the nation... Reeled off a nine-match winning streak after starting the season 2-4... Earned an 8-4 win over USC-Upstate's 17th ranked doubles team (2/10)... Only lost four games during a seven-match stretch (3/3-3/23)... Defeated Georgia College's 20th ranked doubles team (3/30)... Recorded an 8-5 win over Valdosta State's 12th ranked doubles team in the GSC Final (4/22)... Posted four wins in the national tournament, including two 8-0 wins.
Fall 2006: Advanced to the finals of the NCAA Division II/ITA South Region Championships.
2006: Named ITA Division II National and South Region Rookie Player of the Year...Third women's tennis player in conference history to earn GSC East Divison Player of the Year, and Freshman of the Year honors in the same season... Second Argonaut in the last three years to earn player of the year honors... First Argonaut since 2001 to be named freshman of the year... Started and ended the year as the third-ranked singles player after a 14-2 record... Posted a 7-2 record against ranked opponents... Defeated BYU-Hawaii's Jing Jing Liu when she was the top-ranked singles player in the nation... Her only two losses were to the number two and number four ranked singles players in the nation... Tallied a 23-4 doubles record... Won 15 consecutive doubles matches with Paola Arevalo...Along with Arevalo, she upset BYU-Hawaii's top-ranked doubles team of Tetyana Bula and Julia Ustyuzhanina.
2005 Fall: Won the ITA South Region Singles Championship... Advanced to the finals of the ITA National Small College Championships in October and finished second... Entered the spring season ranked third in singles in Division II
Other Tennis Experience: The Brazillian national champion at age 10 and 12... Participated in numerous junior tournaments in Brazil, and was ranked number one several times between the ages of 10-14... Represented Brazil in several South American and international tennis events.
High School: attended Horacio Bento High School
Club: Played for soccer club teams in Brazil
Personal: Daughter of Antonio Cavalcante and Maria Isabel Cavalcante... Has two siblings, Daniel, and Natalia... Majoring in athletic training... Assisted at a 5K run for the West Florida Exercise Science Department... Volunteered at the 2006 NCAA Division II National Championships.



