After her year of domination as a freshman on the ACC Championship-winning 2023 NC State women’s tennis team, Diana Shnaider added a silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics to her resume.

Competing with her partner Mirra Andreeva as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN), Shnaider struck silver in the women’s doubles competition at the 2024 games. Entering the Paris games as the first women’s tennis player from NC State to compete in the Olympics, the former Wolfpack star became the first tennis player to stand on the podium for the red-and-white.

Helping lead the Wolfpack to its first-ever ACC Championship, its first-ever NCAA final appearance and winning the ACC Freshman Player of the Year award, an Olympic medal now joins Shnaider’s ever-growing list of accomplishments.

The three-time WTA tour singles title holder joined Katharine Berkoff and marathon runner Joan Benoit as just the third woman athlete from NC State ever to earn a medal at the Olympics.

The No. 24 ranked player in the world and her partner downed the Tokyo Olympics champions in the quarterfinal round. Then, on their run to the gold medal match, Shnaider and Andreeva beat the Spanish pair of Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes Torma 6-1, 6-2.

However, the alumni’s quest for gold came up just short after the pair fell in the gold medal match to Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini of Italy in a thrilling match. After taking the first set 6-2, the AIN pair dropped its second 1-6. The duo lost 10-7 in a tense tiebreaker to decide the winner but still emerged with the silver medal.

Shnaider is now the third former member of the Wolfpack to earn a medal at the 2024 games. She joins Berkoff, who claimed bronze while swimming in the 100m backstroke and most recently, gold in the women’s 100m medley relay, and Ryan Held, who took gold while swimming in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay.