We present V and R _ { c } -band photometry and optical near-infrared spectroscopy of the cataclysmic variable 1RXS J094432.1+035738 .
We detected features of a cool secondary star , which can be modeled with a red dwarf of spectral type M2 ^ { +0.5 } _ { -1.0 } V at a distance of 433 \pm 100 pc .