California State University - Sacramento Women's Tennis

Former Sacramento State standout student-athlete Sophie Breault (née Lohscheidt) was named the head coach for the Hornet women’s tennis program in January of 2022 and has restored her alma mater to its former glory in a short amount of time. Entering her fourth season at the helm in 2024-25, Breault took over the program in the middle of the 2021-22 school year and inherited a team that had won just one dual match the previous spring and has improved Sacramento State’s standing in every season at the helm. Breault and the Hornets won five duals in the spring of 2022 — three of those in Big Sky Conference play — and advanced Sacramento State to a semifinal appearance with a win over Portland State before falling to Weber State in the semifinals. A year later, Breault guided the Hornets to an 11-11 overall record and a 4-4 mark in conference play in the spring of 2023, posting the first double-digit win season for the program since it finished with the same number of wins in 2018. Sacramento State advanced to the semifinals of the Big Sky Tournament for the second consecutive season with a win over Idaho State before falling to Northern Arizona. In 2024, Breault completed the Hornets’ ascension to the top of the Big Sky, finishing the year with a 20-8 overall record and a 6-2 mark in conference play, winning a share of the league’s regular season title — the 10th in school history — and the program’s 12th tournament title which, at the time, was the most in the history of the Big Sky. As a result, Sacramento State advanced to its 14th NCAA Tournament — and its first since 2014 — facing No. 10 California in the first round. All told, the 20 wins were the most for a Hornet squad since they finished 21-7 overall in 2008, and are tied for the fourth-most in a single season in the program's Division I history. Under her tutelage, six different Sacramento State student-athletes have gone on to collect a total of 12 All-Big Sky honors, including four of those following the 2024 campaign, and the team has earned 10 Big Sky Player of the Week awards. In addition, prior to the 2023 season, the Hornets' recruiting class was named one of the nation's top mid-major classes according to TennisRecruiting.net, coming in at No. 16 on the list -- the first time that Sacramento State made the organization's top 25 list. Academically, her squads have been named ITA All-Academic Teams in each of her three years at the helm and 12 student-athletes have combined for 20 individual honors from the organization, while also picking up a total of 20 Big Sky All-Academic awards. Originally from Landsberg, Germany, Breault was a four-year letter winner for the Hornets from 2011-14, earning numerous conference honors over the course of her four-year career in the green and gold. As a senior, she earned her first career All-Big Sky first team selection was named the league’s player of the week twice that same year. Previously, she was a second-team selection as a freshman in 2011. Combined, she finished 25-4 in singles and 28-5 in doubles against conference opponents in her four years. Equally as successful in the classroom as she was on the court, Breault was a four-time Big Sky All-Academic Team selection and a four-time ITA Scholar-Athlete, earning honors all four years of her Hornet career. She capped her career as a student-athlete by earning Sacramento State’s 2014 Big Sky Scholar-Athlete award, completing her degree in international business with a 3.88 overall GPA.

Former Kansas and Washburn University standout Sonia Smagina joins the Sacramento State women’s tennis program for her first season as an assistant coach in 2025-26, Head Coach Sophie Breault announced on Sept. 15.  “I’m thrilled to welcome Sonia to our coaching staff,” Breault said. “She’s a highly motivated, driven, and competitive coach who brings valuable experience from her playing career at Kansas and her coaching tenure at Washburn University. She knows what it takes to compete at the highest level and will help elevate our program and develop our student-athletes.” Smagina joins the Hornets after serving as an Assistant Tennis Professional at the Eugene Swim & Tennis Club in Oregon for the last nine months following a decorated collegiate career with the Jayhawks and Ichabods. The native of Penza, Russia, rose through the junior ranks to earn a spot on the roster at Kansas, where she was a four-year letter winner from 2018-22. She was named to the All-Big 12 Freshman Team following her debut season when she finished a combined 17-4 in singles and 16-5 in doubles play, also picking up second-team all-conference honors in seconds and first-team doubles laurels. The Jayhawks won the Big 12 Conference Tournament that year, eventually advancing to the NCAA Tournament Round of 16 at Stanford before falling. Prior to the pandemic, she posted a 7-4 singles record at the No. 1 spot in the Jayhawks’ lineup as a sophomore, including posting three wins over nationally ranked opponents before the season came to a premature end.  The next season, she split time at the No. 1 and No. 2 singles positions, finishing 7-11 overall while winning five matches in doubles play, then followed that up the next year by winning 16 matches overall — 10 of those during the spring season at the No. 3 spot in the lineup — while posting 12 more in doubles competition and helping Kansas to another NCAA Tournament berth. After graduating with her degree in liberal arts and sciences, Smagina completed her final season of eligibility at Division II Washburn University in nearby Topeka, Kan., in 2022-23, posting a 30-3 singles record and a 26-5 mark in doubles play, eventually earning a No. 1 national ranking in singles and ranked as high as No. 5 in the country in doubles.  The 30 singles victories were the second-most in the history of the program at the time, while the 26 doubles triumphs were the sixth-most in a season.  An All-American in both singles and doubles play, Smagina was also named the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Player of the Year and was a first-team all-conference selection in both singles and doubles. She was also the Division II ITA Cup national runner-up during the fall, won the ITA Central Region Division II singles championship, and was a finalist for the region’s doubles crown. Following her playing career, she served one season as a graduate assistant coach at Washburn for both the men’s and women’s programs while concurrently pursuing her MBA. She helped the Ichabod women finish 20-6 overall for the program’s first 20-win season since 2018-19, with seven victories over ranked opposition and a third consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament. The team reached as high as No. 3 in the national rankings — the highest in program history. On the men’s side, Smagina helped the Washburn squad to a 20-5 overall record and an undefeated MIAA mark, making an appearance at the NCAA Division II national championships for the second straight season and advancing to the round of 16. During the fall, the Ichabods claimed a regional singles title, the program’s first ITA Cup national title in doubles, and a berth in the Division II fall national championships. The daughter of Victor and Larisa, Smagina compiled 12 singles and 23 career doubles wins on the International Tennis Federation pro circuit, ranked as high as No. 1,012 in the world in singles and No. 576 in doubles.

After serving as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Emmanuel College, for the last two-plus seasons, Enrique Alcacer joined the Sacramento State women’s tennis program as a volunteer assistant in August of 2022. In his two full seasons as an assistant for both the men’s and women’s programs, the native of Valencia, Spain, helped lead the Lions’ men’s team to a 5-7 mark during the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 spring campaign, and a 9-7 mark — including a 6-2 record against Conference Carolinas opponents — in 2020-21. In 2021, the women’s team clinched the Conference Carolinas regular season title with an 11-6 overall record and a 9-1 record in league play. His coaching resume also includes time with Academia Tenis 92 in his hometown, working with various age groups ranging from six to 50, creating individualized plans to support the goals of the athletes. As a student-athlete, Alcacer with a four-year letter winner for the Division II Lions in Franklin Springs, Ga., helping Emmanuel College to a 2018 National Christian College Athletic Association national runner-up finish as the No. 6 seed, falling to top-seeded Campbellsville University, and ended the year ranked no. 2 in the nation with a 14-6 overall record. A two-time team captain as a junior and senior, Alcacer finished the 2017-18 campaign with a 23-8 overall singles record, including a 9-1 mark against conference opponents. He achieved a top 900 open ranking in Spain with a high of 11.7 in singles and 11.0 in doubles in the Universal Tennis Ranking. Alcacer graduated from Emmanuel College in the spring of 2020 with degrees in mathematics and business administration with a concentration in information systems. He is currently pursuing his masters in computer science at Sacramento State.