Kristina Hollander was named the head coach of Seattle University men's and women's tennis programs on August 24, 2020.
In the 2024-25 season, the Redhawks made history, with Lamija Avdic becoming both the first Redhawk to win WAC Player of the Year and the first to compete at the ITA All-American Championships, reaching the round of 16. Alongside Liliya Dimova, the pair became the first Redhawks to qualify for the ITA Masters in the doubles category, and Dimova was the WAC nominee for 2025 NCAA Woman of the Year. Avdic was awarded All-WAC First Team in singles, and All-WAC Second Team in doubles with Dimova. The pair also earned WAC Doubles Players of the Month, and Avdic won WAC Singles Player of the week, alongside a WAC Doubles Players of the Week with Natalia Michta. Dimova was awarded WAC Doubles Players of the Week with Lola Tavcar. On the men's side, Yuan Lu won WAC Singles Player of the week once, and WAC Doubles Players of the week twice alongside Yu-Han Hsieh. Filip Stipic was also awarded WAC Singles Player of the Week honors.
In the 2023-24 season, Lamija Avdic was awarded WAC Freshman of the Year. She also earned WAC Doubles Players of the Week honors alongside Lola Tavcar. Elena Kraleva earned WAC Singles Player of the Week twice, and WAC Doubles Players of the Week once with Jade Quintana. On the men's side, Julian Worn became the first Redhawk to receive the Stan Bates award, and he and Jun Sasagawa were named to the Singles All-WAC second team. Sasagawa was awarded Singles Player of the Week honors, and the pair of Worn and Michael Frank earned Doubles Players of the Week as well.
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 reins 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.