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2019-20 Women's Squash Roster
Roster
Prokes, Ona
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
Ona Prokes
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Forest Hills, N.Y.
- High School:
- Forest Hills
Bio
2020-21 / Senior
Did not compete due to COVID-19 global pandemic.
2019-20 / Junior
College Squash Association Scholar-Athlete…posted double-digit wins for a third-straight year, going 10-11…moved into ninth place on the program career victory ledger with 34…played in four different spots in the ladder: going 2-0 at the No. 4 position, 4-2 at the No. 5, 1-3 at the No. 6, 3-4 at the No. 7 and 0-2 as an individual…swept Franklin & Marshall’s Katherine Galambos in Drexel’s season opener on Nov. 16…erased a two-game deficit in a five-game win over Yale’s Riya Mital on Dec. 7…helped propel Drexel to a No. 5 ranking in mid-December, the highest ranking in program history…started the new calendar year with six wins in her first seven matches…logged three-straight sweeps over Middlebury, Cornell and Dartmouth on Jan. 12, 19 and 24, respectively…went on a season-best four-match winning streak to start February, including a 3-1 performance at the Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference Championships as Drexel lifted the Gaynor Cup…appeared in all three of the Dragons’ Howe Cup matches…knotted the team score at 4-all with a three game sweep of Penn’s Amina Tamer in the Howe Cup seventh-place match, a match Drexel won to finish seventh in the nation for the second-consecutive season…appeared in the Holleran West bracket at the College Squash Association Individual Championships.
2018-19 / Sophomore
Posted an 11-9 overall record, playing primarily at the No. 5 and No. 6 positions…was 1-0 at the No. 3 position, 4-4 at the No. 5 and 4-3 at the No. 6 slot…helped the Dragons to their first-ever appearance in the Howe Cup Finals and their highest ranking in program history, finishing the year ranked No. 7…opened the year with a sweep of Dickinson at the No. 5 position…had seven three-game victories on the season…won three-straight against Trinity, Cornell and Colby between Dec. 7 and Jan. 27…reached the consolation finals of the Holleran South Division bracket at the CSA Individual Championships, falling to Amanda Haywood of Virginia in five sets.
2017-18 / Freshman
Went 13-8 overall in her first season…played primarily from the No. 5 spot, where she had a 9-3 record…was also 1-1 at the No. 4 position, 2-2 at the No. 6, 1-0 at the No. 7 and 0-2 at the No. 9…helped the Dragons to their first-ever Kurtz Cup title…helped Drexel to a program-best final ranking of No. 9…competed at the CSA Individual Championships in Washington, D.C. in the Holleran Cup South Division…won all three of her Kurtz Cup matches, including sweeps of Amherst’s Riddhi Sampat and Brown’s Katrina Northrop…had a season-best winning streak of seven matches…closed the regular season with wins over Cornell’s Charlotte Knaggs, George Washington’s Mary Jo Mahfood, St. Lawrence’s Allie Brazo and Middlebury’s Natalie Madden…won her first three collegiate matches against Dickinson’s Nicole DeLuca, Penn’s Cameron Munn and Columbia’s Dora Chen…also swept Williams’ Sarah Willwerth and Franklin & Marshall’s K. Galambos…came back to beat Dartmouth’s Janel Gaube in five games during the teams’ regular-season meeting.
Background
Attended Forest Hills High School in New York…second place at U15 Nationals…runner-up at the U17 Trinity Junior Championships…reached No. 1 in the U17 rankings.
Personal
Daughter of Angelika and Roman Prokes…has a younger sister, Ava, and an older brother, Sean…majoring in entrepreneurship and innovation.
Did not compete due to COVID-19 global pandemic.
2019-20 / Junior
College Squash Association Scholar-Athlete…posted double-digit wins for a third-straight year, going 10-11…moved into ninth place on the program career victory ledger with 34…played in four different spots in the ladder: going 2-0 at the No. 4 position, 4-2 at the No. 5, 1-3 at the No. 6, 3-4 at the No. 7 and 0-2 as an individual…swept Franklin & Marshall’s Katherine Galambos in Drexel’s season opener on Nov. 16…erased a two-game deficit in a five-game win over Yale’s Riya Mital on Dec. 7…helped propel Drexel to a No. 5 ranking in mid-December, the highest ranking in program history…started the new calendar year with six wins in her first seven matches…logged three-straight sweeps over Middlebury, Cornell and Dartmouth on Jan. 12, 19 and 24, respectively…went on a season-best four-match winning streak to start February, including a 3-1 performance at the Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference Championships as Drexel lifted the Gaynor Cup…appeared in all three of the Dragons’ Howe Cup matches…knotted the team score at 4-all with a three game sweep of Penn’s Amina Tamer in the Howe Cup seventh-place match, a match Drexel won to finish seventh in the nation for the second-consecutive season…appeared in the Holleran West bracket at the College Squash Association Individual Championships.
2018-19 / Sophomore
Posted an 11-9 overall record, playing primarily at the No. 5 and No. 6 positions…was 1-0 at the No. 3 position, 4-4 at the No. 5 and 4-3 at the No. 6 slot…helped the Dragons to their first-ever appearance in the Howe Cup Finals and their highest ranking in program history, finishing the year ranked No. 7…opened the year with a sweep of Dickinson at the No. 5 position…had seven three-game victories on the season…won three-straight against Trinity, Cornell and Colby between Dec. 7 and Jan. 27…reached the consolation finals of the Holleran South Division bracket at the CSA Individual Championships, falling to Amanda Haywood of Virginia in five sets.
2017-18 / Freshman
Went 13-8 overall in her first season…played primarily from the No. 5 spot, where she had a 9-3 record…was also 1-1 at the No. 4 position, 2-2 at the No. 6, 1-0 at the No. 7 and 0-2 at the No. 9…helped the Dragons to their first-ever Kurtz Cup title…helped Drexel to a program-best final ranking of No. 9…competed at the CSA Individual Championships in Washington, D.C. in the Holleran Cup South Division…won all three of her Kurtz Cup matches, including sweeps of Amherst’s Riddhi Sampat and Brown’s Katrina Northrop…had a season-best winning streak of seven matches…closed the regular season with wins over Cornell’s Charlotte Knaggs, George Washington’s Mary Jo Mahfood, St. Lawrence’s Allie Brazo and Middlebury’s Natalie Madden…won her first three collegiate matches against Dickinson’s Nicole DeLuca, Penn’s Cameron Munn and Columbia’s Dora Chen…also swept Williams’ Sarah Willwerth and Franklin & Marshall’s K. Galambos…came back to beat Dartmouth’s Janel Gaube in five games during the teams’ regular-season meeting.
Background
Attended Forest Hills High School in New York…second place at U15 Nationals…runner-up at the U17 Trinity Junior Championships…reached No. 1 in the U17 rankings.
Personal
Daughter of Angelika and Roman Prokes…has a younger sister, Ava, and an older brother, Sean…majoring in entrepreneurship and innovation.
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