Colorado Adds Three For 2025

BOULDER—The Colorado Buffaloes tennis team signed three new student-athletes from around the globe for the 2025 class, head coach Anthony Pham announced on Friday
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Lani Brotman, Heidi Crncan, and Yukiko Ikedo have signed their National Letter of Intent to continue their academic and tennis career as a member of the Buffaloes' tennis team starting in the 2025-26 season.

"As a whole, we feel really good about this recruiting class," Pham said. "We're having to replace three prominent and strong players in Mila [Stanojevic], Betina [Tokac], and Aya [El Sayed], these three have some big shoes to fill, but we feel good about the skill sets they bring, the character and work ethic they bring. We think they will continue to push our program forward, and we expect to see great things from them."

Lani Brotman, a left-handed five-star recruit from Carrollton, Texas is the No. 73 ranked player in the United States. She is also the No. 7 player in Texas and is listed as the No. 9 player from the Gulf States on Tennis Recruiting Network.
According to Tennis Recruiting Network Brotman has an overall record of 23-21, including a record of 15-1 against players ranked four stars or lower by the service.

"Lani is a lefty, tall, very explosive game," Pham said on Brotman. "She comes from a good academy [Brookhaven Tennis Academy] with great coaching and Blake [Mosley] and I both feel strongly that she will fit in well with our program and her game will explode when she gets to college."

Heidi Crncan, one of the top juniors in the United Kingdom comes to Colorado currently ranked No. 626 in the International Tennis Federation Junior Rankings. Since beginning competition on the international stage in 2021, Crncan has a record of 30-21. Among those matches, she has made it to the finals of two junior ITF tournaments. In addition to her athletic accomplishments, Crncan arrives at Colorado as a 4.0 student.

"For Heidi [Crncan] tall, big game, I think her game translates well to indoor tennis," Pham on Crncan. "I think she's had good coaching, but I think her training regimen has been somewhat limited. I think when she gets into our program, we expect her game to continue to flourish."

Yukiko Ikedo, from Japan, will become the first player from Japan to compete for the Colorado Buffaloes tennis team. There she ranks as one of the top juniors in the country where she competes for one of the top high schools in Aioi Jafuin. She currently sits with a record of 13-7 in junior matches.

"I first saw Yukiko [Ikedo] play two years ago and she has continued to improve," Pham on Ikedo. "She comes from a great family, and is a good singles player, but also a very good doubles player as well. I think from day one she will have an opportunity to impact both of our lineups."

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