STANFORD, Calif. – Connie Ma, Valerie Glozman and Valencia Xu were honored by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) when the organization announced its year-end regional awards on Tuesday. Ma was named the Northwest region’s Senior Player of the Year, Glozman was voted its Rookie of the Year and Xu collected its Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship award.
Ma had a remarkable final campaign on The Farm. She was 29-5 this season, 17-1 in duals, and put together a career record of 131-28, including 68-14 in duals and 61-18 against ranked opponents. A three-time singles All-American and two-time first-team Academic All-American, Ma also picked up the national Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award from the ITA in 2024. She was nationally ranked in singles in every ITA poll of her career except the preseason poll prior to her freshman season and checked in as high as No. 3 in the country on Feb. 8, 2023. Ma qualified for three NCAA Singles Championships and three NCAA Doubles Championships (2022, 2024, Fall 2024) and finished her final season as the country’s No. 14 singles player.
She is Stanford’s ninth winner of the ITA Northwest Regional Senior Player of the Year award, joining Angelica Blake (2024), Melissa Lord (2019), Caroline Doyle (2017), Kristie Ahn (2014), Hilary Barte (2011), Theresa Logar (2007), Amber Liu (2006) and Lauren Kalvaria (2002).
Glozman recently concluded a sensational debut campaign, finishing her freshman season as the No. 10 singles player in the country, with a 32-5 overall record and 19-3 mark in duals. She ended the year on an eight-match winning streak, including a perfect 3-0 in NCAA team competition at No. 2, and was 15-5 against ranked opponents. The ACC Freshman of the Year secured All-America honors by advancing to the quarterfinals at the NCAA Singles Championship in November.
Rated as the No. 1 recruit in the country by Tennis Recruiting, Glozman was a three-time wild card at the US Open Junior Championships, advancing to the quarterfinals in 2024. Next week, she will be competing in the new US Open Wild Card Playoffs, set to be held at the USTA National Campus. Glozman is in the four-person women’s singles field from which the winner will earn a US Open main draw wild card, and the runner up will earn a US Open qualifying wild card.
Glozman is the Cardinal’s 12th ITA Northwest Region Rookie of the Year and third in the past four years (Katherine Hui – 2024; Connie Ma – 2022).
On the court, Xu just wrapped up a Stanford career in which she went 93-28 overall, including 55-18 in duals, 12-12 against ranked opponents and a perfect 4-0 in NCAA team competition. She was ranked as high as 50th in the country on Nov. 15, 2024 and was a two-time Academic All-American majoring in international relations, minoring in sociology and boasting a 4.03 GPA.
A two-time team captain, Xu put together a resume just as impressive off the court. She serves as a student fellow at the Hoover Institution’s Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative and, last summer, worked on the Systems Navigator Project with the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office, providing support to clients charged with felonies as they transitioned between arraignment and case management public defenders. She was a research assistant at Stanford’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, assisting Professor Oriana Skylar Mastro with her book Upstart on China’s rise.
As a sophomore, Xu was an undergraduate editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (Stanford Law School), assisting with editing legal scholarship for timely publication, on issues like Title IX and the death penalty. She participated in a summer internship in the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office in 2022, working with attorneys in defending clients accused of committing felony criminal offenses.
In the summer of 2023, Xu participated in ACE in South Africa, a three-week long immersive community service program with a cohort of 12 Stanford and Duke student-athletes, where she taught English and sports to children in the underprivileged, primarily Xhosa-speaking Langa Township.
Xu is the program’s fourth winner of the ITA Northwest Region Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award, along with Connie Ma (2024), Taylor Davidson (2017) and Alice Barnes (2005, 2006).