Kristina Hollander

Kristina Hollander enters her third season at Seattle U in 2022-23.

In the 2022-23 season, both men’s and women’s teams reached the WAC Championships. On the women’s side, Elena Kraleva earned Singles and Doubles Players of the Week, with Liliya Dimova joining her on the Doubles Players of the Week honors. On the men’s side, Veselin Kiselkov and Clement Hamel also earned Doubles Players of the Week honors as well. Filip Stipic and Julian Worn earned Singles All-WAC Second Team honors. Additionally, Worn also won Doubles All-WAC First team honors, earning the award with Michael Frank.

In the 2021-22 season, women's tennis reached the WAC Tournament finals match for the first time in program history. Elena Kraleva earned Singles & Doubles All-Tournament Team, while Liliya Dimova joined her on the Doubles Team and Mireia Fehr claimed Singles honors. The pairing of Liliya Dimova and Elena Kraleva won seven matches in a row to conclude the season, earning Doubles Second Team All-WAC honors. On the men's team, Julian Worn, Veselin Kiselkov and Filip Stipic swept the WAC Men's Tennis Athletes of the Week, for the week of Feb. 6-13. Stipic earned singles Players of the Week honors while, the paring of Kiselkov and Worn claimed doubles Team of the Week accolades.

In the 2020-21 season, Lucas Cerbelli and Eli Ogilvy earned Second Team All-WAC honors, while Julian Worn was named on the All-WAC Honorable Mention under Hollander's watch. Worn and Mats Krause were named WAC Doubles Team of the Week for the week of Feb. 23 through March 1 and Cerbelli and Ogilvy earned that same award for the week of Mar. 23-29. Worn also earned himself WAC Player of the Week honors for his performance in singles play from Mar. 2-8. On the women's team, Peggy Rooke was voted on the All-Tournament team for her performances in singles play at the 2021 WAC tennis tournament. 15 Redhawks (six men, nine women) received individual All-Academic awards from the WAC.

A graduate of UNLV and one of the top tennis players in Mountain West Conference history, Hollander takes over the Redhawk reigns following two seasons as an assistant coach at San Jose State. She was also a professor in the SJSU Kinesiology department.

Hollander joined the Spartan coaching staff in August 2018 after serving as the head tennis professional for a major hotel chain in Puerto Rico. She has also held tennis pro positions in Nevada and Connecticut.

The four-year letterwinner at UNLV was the second Mountain West Conference women's tennis player in history to be named all-conference in singles and doubles each of four seasons.

Playing as Kristina Nedeltcheva, she was a nationally-ranked Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) singles and doubles player and the 2010 ITA Mountain Region Senior of the Year during her collegiate career. She competed in the 2007 and 2008 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships in doubles and the 2010 NCAA Championships as a singles entry for the Rebels.

Hollander was a three-time Academic All-Mountain West award winner, an ITA Scholar-Athlete and graduated with honors in 2010. She was named UNLV's 2010 Sportswoman of the Year.

The native of Sofia, Bulgaria, was an Under-14, Under-16 and an open singles national indoor champion.