Seton Hall Athletic Director Patrick Lyons announced that former UCLA All-American Riza Zalameda has been named as the Pirates new women's head coach. Zalemeda, who graduated from UCLA in 2008, has spent the last four years as an assistant coach at Columbia. Zalameda replaces Greg Wyzykowski who resigned after going 64-111 (.366) over the last nine seasons at the South Orange, New Jersey, school.
Nebraska-Omaha Athletics Director Trev Alberts announced that recent Bowling Green head coach Olga Elkin has been named as the new women's head coach. Elkin, who is an Omaha native, played collegiately at Wichita State and West Virginia with her final year in Morgantown coming in 2010. Elkin has been a head coach for the last four years with two successful years at Murray State (27-15/.643) followed by two poor years at Bowling Green (2-36/.053). Elkin replaces Mike Saniuk who departed following a 37-67 (.356) record over the last past five years.
Marist Athletic Director Tim Murray announced that Jason Sacher is returning to Poughkeepsie as the new women's head coach after spending last season as an assistant at Cornell. Sacher, who went 11-23 (.324) during the 2014 and 2015 seasons at Marist, replaces Justin Satkowski who resigned after going 8-13 (.381) in his one season at the helm of the Red Foxes.
My coaching carousel page is showing there are still 11 head coaching openings on both the men's and women's side.
I saw a tweet from the ITA mentioning that there will be 10 former collegians representing their countries in the upcoming Rio Olympics. Here is the full list of all the guys and gals that are expected to participate in the Olympics. Participants with college ties are:
Mike & Bob Bryan (USA/Stanford '98)
Robert Farah (COL/USC '10)
Dominic Inglot (GBR/Virginia '09)
Steve Johnson (USA/USC '12)
Marcin Matkowski (POL/UCLA '03)
John Peers (AUS/Baylor '11)
Miguel Reyes-Varela (MEX/Texas '09)
Jean-Julien Rojer (NED/UCLA '02)
Mike Venus (NZE/LSU '09)
Georgia, which is hosting the 2017 NCAA Championships, released its schedule for the 2016-17 season with the Manny Diaz coached squad facing Ohio State, Georgia Tech, USC, UCLA, Purdue, and the Washington/Alabama winner before the National Team Indoors in Charlottesville. The USC and UCLA matches will take place during the Pac-12/SEC Showdown which Florida will be hosting in Gainesville on Super Bowl Sunday. The Purdue and Washington/Alabama matches will take place in Athens during the ITA Kickoff Weekend. Georgia also hosts Wake Forest in the middle of its conference schedule.
Dartmouth's Eddie Grabill, Tennessee's Timo Stodder, and Penn State's Constant De La Bassetiere each picked up their first ATP points this week. Grabill, who got a wild card into the Godfrey IL USA F24 Futures by winning a wild card tournament, defeated South Florida's Justin Roberts 6-4, 6-3 in the first round and will now face the No. 2 seed Facundo Mena in the second round.
Stodder, who came through qualies at the Serbia F1 Futures, rolled over Igor Banicevic 6-0, 6-3 in the first round and will now face the top seed Christopher O'Connell in the second round.
De La Bassetiere, who got a wild card into the main draw at the France F15 Futures, has won his first two matches with a 6-4, 6-4 win over #532 Marcos Giraldi Requena and a 6-3, 6-1 win over #1215 Loic Perret. De La Bassetiere will try to push into the semifinals when he meets #347 Jonathan Eysseric on Friday.
Excited to welcome Riza Zalameda to the family as our new @SHU_Tennis head coach! https://t.co/hOeqCqWJ5k #HALLin pic.twitter.com/QalIqyuVNR— Seton Hall Athletics (@SHUAthletics) July 20, 2016
Nebraska-Omaha Athletics Director Trev Alberts announced that recent Bowling Green head coach Olga Elkin has been named as the new women's head coach. Elkin, who is an Omaha native, played collegiately at Wichita State and West Virginia with her final year in Morgantown coming in 2010. Elkin has been a head coach for the last four years with two successful years at Murray State (27-15/.643) followed by two poor years at Bowling Green (2-36/.053). Elkin replaces Mike Saniuk who departed following a 37-67 (.356) record over the last past five years.
Marist Athletic Director Tim Murray announced that Jason Sacher is returning to Poughkeepsie as the new women's head coach after spending last season as an assistant at Cornell. Sacher, who went 11-23 (.324) during the 2014 and 2015 seasons at Marist, replaces Justin Satkowski who resigned after going 8-13 (.381) in his one season at the helm of the Red Foxes.
My coaching carousel page is showing there are still 11 head coaching openings on both the men's and women's side.
I saw a tweet from the ITA mentioning that there will be 10 former collegians representing their countries in the upcoming Rio Olympics. Here is the full list of all the guys and gals that are expected to participate in the Olympics. Participants with college ties are:
Mike & Bob Bryan (USA/Stanford '98)
Robert Farah (COL/USC '10)
Dominic Inglot (GBR/Virginia '09)
Steve Johnson (USA/USC '12)
Marcin Matkowski (POL/UCLA '03)
John Peers (AUS/Baylor '11)
Miguel Reyes-Varela (MEX/Texas '09)
Jean-Julien Rojer (NED/UCLA '02)
Mike Venus (NZE/LSU '09)
Georgia, which is hosting the 2017 NCAA Championships, released its schedule for the 2016-17 season with the Manny Diaz coached squad facing Ohio State, Georgia Tech, USC, UCLA, Purdue, and the Washington/Alabama winner before the National Team Indoors in Charlottesville. The USC and UCLA matches will take place during the Pac-12/SEC Showdown which Florida will be hosting in Gainesville on Super Bowl Sunday. The Purdue and Washington/Alabama matches will take place in Athens during the ITA Kickoff Weekend. Georgia also hosts Wake Forest in the middle of its conference schedule.
Dartmouth's Eddie Grabill, Tennessee's Timo Stodder, and Penn State's Constant De La Bassetiere each picked up their first ATP points this week. Grabill, who got a wild card into the Godfrey IL USA F24 Futures by winning a wild card tournament, defeated South Florida's Justin Roberts 6-4, 6-3 in the first round and will now face the No. 2 seed Facundo Mena in the second round.
Stodder, who came through qualies at the Serbia F1 Futures, rolled over Igor Banicevic 6-0, 6-3 in the first round and will now face the top seed Christopher O'Connell in the second round.
De La Bassetiere, who got a wild card into the main draw at the France F15 Futures, has won his first two matches with a 6-4, 6-4 win over #532 Marcos Giraldi Requena and a 6-3, 6-1 win over #1215 Loic Perret. De La Bassetiere will try to push into the semifinals when he meets #347 Jonathan Eysseric on Friday.
9 comments:
Red shirt Demon Deacon Alan Gadjiev also picked up his first points, he made it to the semifinals in Egypt and this week won vs first round against Aziz Dougaz....a very nice young man, my son hit some with him at a clinic wake hosted
Sameer Kumar loses to Tennys Sandgren 4,3 in the 2nd round of the Godfrey $25,000. Welcome back to earth
What is the UN-Omaha AD thinking taking a coach who only had 2 wins in 2 seasons at a school that had done well prior to her arrival. Good grief what a pathetic hire
He made a nice run last week and he's also into the quarters this week - Wake definitely has some quality depth
Sacher was let go at Cornell after two months there.
In reading over the Seton Hall release, Bobby, do you find it odd that tennis (both on the men and women's side) is the only sport at the collegiate level that puts such a premium value on a coach''s playing background? I understand that part of a coaches job is to be able to hit in with players but it seems like with so many of these hires the playing background seems to be more of a priority than the achievements, or lack thereof, of some of these coaches have done as coaches. Playing background is rarely brought up with hires in Football,basketball,volleyball or baseball. And if it is mentioned, it's usually just a ltitle blurb, not the majority of the release. Thoughts?
Unlike football, basketball etc. that pay a lot of salary, rarely is someone without a tennis background going to want to coach tennis, where there really is not much money. It's easy to understand why a Bill Belichik or Roy Williams that weren't much as players would want to pursue coaching those sports. Many coaches are former players that don't have other options but coaching. Specifically with Seton Hall, you have to highlight the playing background when there isn't much of a coaching background.
He is thinking he wants a female coach and if you haven't noticed they are basically giving jobs away to women that have even a shred of experience.
I agree with the comment below - a lot of the hires are only a few years removed from their playing careers so you've got to list some positive accolades. I guess that's why we see some of these releases talk about coaching an all-conference player because they can't highlight the won-loss record because some are pretty poor.
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