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\u201cIt was definitely the idea of the hot weather. I really love playing in the hot weather and I was precisely looking for it. I\u2019ve also been very interested in Texas, so I was very excited to move to a different country than mine. I also looked up the pictures of campus and courts in the beginning and everything looked very nice,\u201d Turolo said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turolo wasn\u2019t the outgoing and lively individual she is now when she joined the team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe was a bit scared to cheer,\u201d said Head Tennis Coach Autumn Wollenzien. \u201cShe was the only freshman her first year, and so she didn\u2019t really have anybody else that she could be a freshman with and do freshman things with. So, she\u2019s also an only child, and she kind of went through her only child coping mechanism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turolo has broken out of her quiet stage, becoming one of the most energetic and outspoken players on the team.\u00a0It reflects in the way fellow teammate and doubles partner Guadalupe Tocci speaks of her.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe\u2019s more than just a teammate,\u201d Tocci said. \u201cShe\u2019s a great leader rather than just a teammate. She\u2019s really helped all of us from upper-to-lower classmen. She just helps us with everything on and off the court. She\u2019s always the first one when we need something, and she is always finding ways to help you with anything you need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another way she has found a way to lead is by her approach to every match.\u00a0\u201cShe\u2019s intense,\u201d Wollenzien said. \u201cShe goes in between, like, she knows when to be fun and when to be serious. And it\u2019s appreciated because you have a balance of both. This is a game we play and you still have to have fun doing it. But then she knows when to get down to business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She spent the last four years proudly wearing the Javelina blue and gold, and the last near decade and a half playing the sport she loves the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI definitely know that tennis will always be the love of my life, and I will never give it up. I\u2019m very excited for the opportunity that I got to play college here, and I\u2019m sure tennis could always be there, maybe coaching, maybe with something else, but I\u2019m sure it will always be in my life,\u201d Turolo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Italy to TAMUK Four years at the same university can feel like forever, but being from out of the country and living an entire… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":11527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[141],"ppma_author":[288],"class_list":["post-11524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Photo by Edward Green - Manuela Turolo answering back with a hit of her own.","source_text":"","source_url":""},"authors":[{"term_id":288,"user_id":132,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mark-paz","display_name":"Mark Paz","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/f8c5d411667d054487c111ee694f0255.jpg?ver=1776213899","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11532,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions\/11532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/G2B08094-1024x683.jpg\")
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