Malone University Athletics

Olle Sundell, a 1989 Malone graduate (Business Administration) was a three-year letterman on the Pioneer men’s tennis team. 

Sundell is currently one of only two Malone athletes to have ever earned the NAIA All-America honor and is the only two-time winner of the award (1987 and 1989). In 1987, he earned the honor in singles and, in 1989, he earned the honor in doubles with teammate Tom Pukys. He had a final NAIA individual national ranking of 10^th at the end of the 1987 season. In the 1989 season, he and Pukys went undefeated in the regular season in doubles that year at 19-0 and did not lose until the fifth round of the NAIA national tournament. He lost to the eventual NAIA national singles champion in the fourth round of the 1989 NAIA national tourney. In 1988, he came up just short of the All-America honor in singles (by just one round at the NAIA national event) and earned Honorable Mention accolades. Sundell was a four-time conference champion in both singles and doubles, including his first collegiate season at Wilmington College.  He posted an incredible career singles record of 79-7 at Malone and a 64-5 doubles record (with various players). His single-season records in singles were 28-1 (1987), in which his only loss was at NAIA nationals, 23-4 in 1988 and 22-1 in 1989. During Sundell’s tenure at Malone, the program played numerous NCAA Div. I teams with over half of the 1988 squad’s schedule being against Div. I opponents (team record was 17-4 that year).
 

Sundell is currently employed as a stock trader (10 years) for Erik Penser Securities in Stockholm, Sweden.  He and his three children, Alex (13), Simoni (11) and Gabriela (8), reside in Tyreso, Sweden, which is 10 miles southeast of Stockholm.