Missouri State

Honors & Awards
• 2016 All-MVC First Team
• MVC Women's Tennis Athlete of the Week - 3/15/16, 4/12/16
• MSU Athletics Director's Honor Roll - Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014

2015-16 Season (Senior)
Named an All-MVC First Team selection via the All-Select Team … Led MSU with team-high victories in singles (15) and doubles (12) … Ended season by winning 10 of final 12 matches and went 5-2 in conference play … Competed at the No. 1 slot for the Bears during entire season … Selected as MVC Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week on two occasions (March 15 and April 12) … Won five of six singles matches during month of March … First win of dual season came over Iowa’s Anastasia Reimchen in a third-set match tiebreaker on Jan. 30 … Had streak of combined eight straight singles and doubles victories from March 4-12 … Earned MSU’s lone points in team’s final two matches of season versus Southern Illinois (April 24) and Drake (April 29) … Combined with fellow senior Miranda Poile for team-high wins at any position … Tandem represented MSU at No. 1 doubles, finishing 12-13 overall … Her and Poile won five straight matches from March 4-18 … Finished a team-high runner-up at No. 5 singles at the MVC Tennis Individual Championship in the fall … Also appeared with Turudija at ITA Central Region Championship in Stillwater … The two defeated teams from South Dakota State and Kansas State to advance to Round of 16 … Ended fall schedule with an 8-6 loss to Julia Courter and Paula Rincon-Otero of Minnesota, the 20th ranked doubles team in the nation.

2014-15 Season (Junior)
Served as No. 1 singles player for Bears' entire season ... Tied for third on team with six singles victories and led team with eight in doubles play ... Earned first singles victory at MSU at the Arkansas State Fall Invitational over Murray State's Eleonore Tchakarova by third-set match tiebreaker (Nov. 7) ... Joined teammate Rebecca McIsaac to place third at No. 3 doubles at the Missouri Valley Conference Individual Championship (Oct. 3-5) ... Topped IUPUI's Valeriia Lavrenchuk in straight sets as part of MSU's first team dual victory of the season ... Helped clinch Bears victories by picking up singles wins at Nebraska-Omaha (Feb. 28), in first win at Cooper Tennis Complex over South Dakota State (Feb. 21) and in the home finale versus Illinois State (April 12) ... Split matches with MVC Player of the Year Erica Medlin of Northern Iowa on April 19 ... Combined with teammate Miranda Poile to defeat Medlin and Elvira Lopez 8-4 at No. 1 doubles ... Took first set over Medlin 6-3 in singles, but fell in the second and dropped third-set match tiebreaker 10-6 ... Ended season on high note by leading in two unfinished matches at MVC Women's Team Tennis Championship in Evansville (April 24) ... Duo of Turudija/Poile led second-seeded Mariel Ante and Adrienne Jensen of Drake 4-3 when match was stopped ... Took first set 7-5 over Drake's Ante in No. 1 singles at MVC Championship when match was left unfinished.

Background
Turudija transferred from Louisiana-Monroe, where she was one of ULM's top competitors from 2011-13 ... Finished her freshman spring campaign with an 11-2 record in singles, which included a 4-0 mark in Sun Belt play and wins in the first 10 matches of her career ... Enjoyed a 12-3 record in doubles in her first season, when she teamed with Vivian Polok to rack up 10 victories in their last 11 outings ... As a sophomore, she went 8-4 in singles and 8-2 doubles, and was ranked at No. 75 in the ITA National Team Rankings in Feb. 2013 ... Prior to starting her collegiate career, Turudija was a member of the Tenis-Tenis Club where she played under coach Veljko Radojicic, and was a two-time semifinalist in the Serbian Junior National Championships in 2009 and 2010.

Personal
Ema Turudija was born on Feb. 15, 1993 in Belgrade, Serbia ... Daughter of Dragan and Vesna Turudija ... Has a brother, Luka ... Plans to major in communication at Missouri State and dreams of working in the sports communications industry.