Career
As a player at Pitt, Borza was the all-time wins record holder, a three-time Most Valuable Player, and captain of the tennis team Kristy"s father, Barry Borza, has served as her tennis coach for her entire career. In high school, under the official coaching of Riley Baker, Kristy"s total record was 120-16.
Borza qualified for WPIALs all four years of high school and was ranked seventh in the USTA Middle State Section"s Under-18 group.
Borza and was one of the University of Pittsburgh"s tennis team"s top player since the beginning of her college career in September 2005. Borza"s Big East Conference career started strong with an impressive 8-0 record, which set the pace for the rest of her successful freshman season.
By the end of the spring, she had tied Pitt"s record for singles and doubles wins in one season, 26-7. Additional wins from the fall pushed her overall victory record for the year to 47, and she led her team in singles and doubles wins.
Her freshman year she also started the trend of earning first place in the Carnegie Mellon University Invitational, which she has championed for three years.
With 27 wins in the spring of Borza"s sophomore year, she beat the record she had tied the previous season, giving her the best record for a single season in Pitt tennis history. As a junior, Borza became the fastest player in Pitt history to record 100 career victories after competing in just 137 career matches. Alongside then-doubles teammate Leah Friedman, Borza obtained Pitt’s first-ever Industry Training Authority East region doubles ranking (Number 13) as a freshman.
That was the lone ranking for any Big East school in that top-14 poll.
On December 7, 2007, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association ranked her 26 for women"s tennis singles in the Eastern Region. Borza currently holds the all-time Pitt records for single-season singles wins (28), career singles wins (91), career doubles wins (85) and combined wins (176).
She also ranks second in doubles wins in a season (23). Borza was also honored with three consecutive Most Valuable Player titles for Pitt tennis.
2006-2007 season
= Results of fall tournaments Coaches
1990–present: Barry Borza, father
2001-2005: Riley Baker, high school
2005-2009: George Dieffenbach, Pitt head coach
2005-2009: Scott Nagle, Pitt assistant coach
2005-2009: Nikki Borza, sister and Pitt volunteer assistant coach
Coaching career
Borza was announced as an assistant coach of the University of Pittsburgh tennis team by head coach George Dieffenbach on November 24, 2010.
