ITA Scholar Athlete (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll (2022, 2023)
Blue-Gray National Tennis Classic Sportsmanship Award (2023)
As a Senior
Spring 2023: Finished season with 13-18 overall record and 8-11 in dual matches, playing mostly at No. 4 ... Recorded one ranked singles victory over Taha Baadi of Kentucky ... 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Arizona's Herman Hoeyeraal clinched the 2023 Blue-Gray National Tennis Classic team title ... Recorded 21-12 overall doubles record and 14-9 in dual matches, playing primarily at No. 2 alongside partner Alejandro Moreno ... Awarded Blue-Gray National Tennis Classic Sportsmanship Award
Fall 2022: Began fall ranked No. 89 in the ITA preseason rankings ... Finished the fall with a 5-6 singles record ... posted a 7-3 doubles record, mostly playing alongside Alejandro Moreno
As a Junior
Spring 2022: 14-14 spring singles record playing mostly at No. 2 singles ... ranked No. 8 in the ITA Southern Region ... SEC wins came over LSU, Arkansas and Ole Miss ... clinched the Texas Tech match in the NCAA tournament with a 7-6 (6), 6-0 win over Reed Collier ... also clinched the match against Indiana, Tulane, Alabama A&M and Nebraska ... ranked as high as No. 59 in singles ... 14-9 doubles record in the spring with Tyler Stice, going 6-5 against SEC opponents ... clinched the doubles point against Ole Miss, Kentucky, Alabama, Tulane, Georgia Tech, Samford and North Alabama ... ranked as high as No. 28 in doubles paired with Stice ... SEC academic honor roll, AD Honor Roll, ITA Scholar-Athlete and Chi Alpha Sigma national student-athlete honorary
Fall 2021: Went 8-3 in fall singles play, advancing to the semifinals at the ITA Southern Regionals … went 8-1 in doubles play during the fall … won the doubles title at the Bulldog Invitational paired with Jackson Ross … was 5-1 paired with Tyler Stice, claiming the doubles championship of the Auburn Fall Invitational … he and Stice finished the fall ranked No. 28 nationally in doubles … Galka finished the fall ranked No. 59 in singles
As a Sophomore
2020-21: Became eligible for play in January, 2021, after transferring ... went 10-9 in singles and 6-6 in SEC play at Nos. 3 and 4 ... SEC wins over Sisam (Vanderbilt), Roberto (Alabama), Croyder (Georgia), Pisane (LSU), Junk (Ole Miss) and Bucan (Arkansas) ... clinched the team win over Samford ... 13-4 in doubles paired with Tyler Stice at No. 3 ... clinched the doubles point in six matches ... SEC doubles wins over Florida, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, Ole Miss and Arkansas ... SEC first-year Academic Honor Roll and ITA Scholar-Athlete
As a Freshman at Louisiana Lafayette
2019-2020: As a freshman, he went 10-9 in singles, with an 8-8 mark at No. 1 and was 12-7 in doubles ... 2019 Sun Belt Conference first team ... in 2020, was 7-2 in singles and 7-3 in doubles, earning first team LSWA honors and was named Sun Belt player of the week in February ... a medalist in the Polish championships ... earned points toward an ATP ranking in both singles and doubles ... placed second in doubles at 2019 Wroclaw World Cup tournament ... holds a singles UTR of 12.94 and doubles UTR of 13.44 ... 2019 15k Futures finalist in Poland ... attended 48 HS of Dembowski in Poland
Personal: Birthday is September 24 ... son of Wojciech Galka and Magdalena Salacka-Galka ... studying in the College of Business
Galka's Career Stats | |||||||||||||||||||
SINGLES | DOUBLES | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Overall | Dual | SEC | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | Overall | Dual | SEC | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | ||||
*2018-19 | 10-9 | 10-9 | -- | 8-8 | 2-1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 15-7 | 15-7 | -- | 2-0 | 12-7 | 1-0 | ||||
*2019-20 | 7-2 | 7-2 | -- | 6-1 | 1-1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 7-3 | 7-3 | -- | 7-3 | -- | -- | ||||
2020-21 | 10-9 | 10-9 | 6-6 | -- | -- | 3-5 | 7-4 | -- | -- | 13-4 | 13-4 | 6-3 | -- | -- | 13-4 | ||||
2021-22 | 22-17 | 14-14 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 13-1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 22-10 | 14-9 | 5-4 | 3-0 | 11-9 | -- | ||||
2022-23 | 13-18 | 8-11 | 2-5 | — | — | 0-1 | 4-8 | 3-2 | 1-0 | 21-12 | 14-9 | 5-4 | 1-0 | 13-9 | -- | ||||
Career | 62-55 | 49-45 | 11-18 | 15-10 | 16-3 | 3-6 | 11-12 | 3-2 | 1-0 | 78-32 | 61-32 | 16-11 | 13-3 | 36-25 | 14-4 |