MALIBU, California – The Pepperdine women's tennis program has added top-level talent to its 2022-23 roster in Carolyn Campana, Bunyawi Thamchaiwat and Jenna DeFalco.
 
Campana (Hillsborough, Calif./Wake Forest) and Thamchaiwat (Nakhonratchasima, AF Pacific, Thailand/Oklahoma State/San Diego State) will be competing as graduate students for the Waves, while DeFalco (Tustin, Calif.) is a freshman embarking on her first season of college tennis.
 
"We are excited to bring in a group that's motivated and has a lot of potential," head coach Per Nilsson said.
 
Campana, a Hillsborough, California native who is a graduate transfer from Wake Forest, earned an at-large bid to the 2022 NCAA Singles Championship as the #32 player in the country, advancing to the second round. Campana defeated a pair of top-20 opponents this season, beating #9 Jaeda Daniel from NC State and #20 Georgia Drummy of Duke.
 
As a junior in 2021, she was named an ITA All-American in singles, becoming the first Demon Deacon to receive such honors since 2002. She was ranked as high as 11^th nationally in singles on her way to being named an All-ACC first-team performer.
 
As a sophomore in the COVID-shortened season of 2020, Campana was ranked as high as #18 in singles after amassing an overall record of 23-10, including 8-3 in the dual season.
 
Prior to her time in Winston-Salem, Campana competed at Vanderbilt as a freshman, compiling a singles record of 26-10 and helping Vandy reach the 2019 NCAA quarterfinals.
 
Thamchaiwat comes to Malibu after spending last season as a graduate student at San Diego State, and the previous three seasons at Oklahoma State, where she earned her bachelor's degree. This season, the graduate student finished as the 52^nd-ranked singles player by the ITA after going 21-3 overall, and a perfect 13-0 in the dual season. Her terrific dual season earned her All-Mountain West Conference first-team honors in both singles and doubles. She also advanced to the second round of the NCAA Singles Championship.
 
While in Stillwater playing for Oklahoma State, she was the 2021 Big 12 Player of the Year and an ITA All-American. Twice she was an ITA Scholar-Athlete for the Cowgirls.
 
DeFalco is from Tustin, California, and was ranked as a blue-chip recruit in the class of 2021, according to tennisrecruiting.net. She was ranked as high as #9 in her signing class and was a constant stay in the top-25 all four years. She has won seven singles and two doubles titles in her ITF Juniors career, going 22-7 in singles on the WTA Tour in 2021. She enrolled at LSU in 2021 but did not play for the Tigers. Her top ITA Juniors ranking is #83, and her highest ranking in the WTA is #598.
 
At 23-7, Pepperdine reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in the last six tournaments and third tournament in a row. The Waves won the West Coast Conference regular-season title for the 10^th consecutive time and postseason title for the eighth straight time.
 
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