Lailaa Bashir

2024-25 (Graduate Student)

Compiled a 13-14 singles record, including a 7-5 mark in tournament play and a 2-7 record in SEC competition
Opened the fall season with three singles victories at the Penn Invitational, including a straight-sets win over Delaware’s Nisan Can (7-5, 6-3)
Picked up straight-set singles wins over Alabama (6-2, 6-4), Florida (6-3, 7-6) and Southeastern Louisiana (6-2, 6-4)
Clinched the win over Florida with her singles victory to earn the Tigers their first win against the Gators in program history and highest-ranked win since 2017
Posted a 14-19 overall doubles record, playing solely in the No. 2 and 3 spots alongside primary partner Zoe Lazar
Earned the wins versus No. 55 Mississippi State and No. 22 Florida to help clinch the doubles points ahead of 4-3 upsets of the Bulldogs and Gators
Named SEC Player of the Week (March 26, 2025) for her singles wins that clinched the upset of No. 22 Florida (March 23)

2023-24 (Grand Canyon)

2022-23 (Bellarmine)

ASUN Honor Roll recipient
Ranked third on the team with nine singles wins, primarily playing in the No. 2 slot
Racked up 12 doubles victories, including seven playing alongside Cydney Roger
Defeated Elli Eades of Kentucky 7-5, 6-0 on March 12 for the first Power-Five singles win of her career
Won six of seven completed singles matches from Jan. 28-March 16
Earned first career ASUN victory with a 6-4, 7-5 triumph against Martina Paladini of North Alabama on March 16.

2020-21 (XULA)

Went 4-0 in singles and 3-0 in doubles in the season-opening ITA NAIA Gulf Regional Championships at XULA Oct. 2-4 and qualified in both for the ITA Oracle Cup Oct. 16-18 at Rome, Ga.
Teamed with Angela Charles-Alfred to defeat William Carey's William Carey's Valeriya Shubrina and Sabrina Goetzen 6-4, 6-2 in the Gulf Regional doubles final Oct. 4, 2020
Defeated teammate Kyra Akinnibi 6-2, 6-4 in the Gulf Regional singles final Oct. 4, 2020

2019-20 (XULA)

Teamed with Angela Charles-Alfred to win XULA's first-ever ITA Cup small-college national title
46-4 for the season — 21-2 in singles and 25-2 in doubles — and was unbeaten during the spring semester, winning 10 decisions apiece in singles and doubles
Teamed with Angela Charles-Alfred to defeat UCLA's 37th-ranked Abi Altick and Taylor Johnson 6-1, 6-4 in the consolation round of the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships at Newport Beach, Calif., on Nov. 7, 2019
ITA/NAIA end-of-season rankings: No. 16 in singles, No. 1 in doubles with Angela Charles-Alfred . . . It was the first-ever final ITA No. 1 ranking for XULA tennis, women or men
Won four doubles titles during the fall: HBCU National Championships, ITA NAIA South Regional, ITA Cup NAIA and ITA Cup Small College
ITA Cup victories were voted the No. 1 women's achievement of 2019-20 in an ITA fan poll/bracket playoff
The Louisiana Freshman of the Year honor made her the second XULA women's tennis player to win a Louisiana Sports Writers Association major award and the first since Anastesia Opata was Newcomer of the Year in 2008
First-ever recipient of the Universal Tennis Ratings ITA National Player of the Week among NAIA women after going 4-0 in singles and 5-0 in doubles (with Angela Charles-Alfred) at the LSUA Invitational in Alexandria, La.
Helped XULA go 10-1 in dual matches and reach No. 3 in the final NAIA coaches poll
Helped XULA go 4-0 in duals against top-25 schools, including 2-0 against No. 12 LSUA

HIGH SCHOOL

Won individual championships in the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools four straight years — including a doubles title in 2019 with Emory Laseter — and helped Jackson Academy's Lady Raiders win four consecutive state team titles
Also starred in basketball at Jackson Academy and helped the Lady Raiders win three consecutive state championships
MAIS AAAA-I Player of the Year her senior basketball season
Made the honor roll multiple times
Member of National Honor Society and French National Honor Society

AMATEUR

2018 Mississippi Tennis Association Female Player of the Year
Winner of approximately 50 age-group singles and doubles championships, including a Southern Closed singles title in 2011
Four-star recruit on TennisRecuriting.net

Personal

Birthdate: Aug. 12, 2001
Working on a graduate certificate in Positive Psychology
Also played basketball and helped her high school team to three consecutive Mississippi State Championships