New Oklahoma women's coach Audra Cohen announced the hiring of Amy Sargeant as the Sooners new assistant coach. Sargeant played at Florida State from 2010 to 2013 and was the assistant coach at New Mexico last season. OU's previous assistant Vincent "Boomer" Saia took a job with the Vanderbilt women's program a few days ago but I haven't seen an official release yet from the school.
Virginia Tech women's coach Terry Ann Zawacki-Woods announced the hiring of William Davis as the Hokies new assistant coach. Davis graduated from Michigan State in 2014 and served as the men's assistant coach at Washington & Lee the last two seasons.
Central Florida's New Director of Tennis John Roddick announced three incoming transfers for the upcoming season in Korey Lovett, Danny Kerznerman, and Harrison Richmond. Both Lovett and Kerznerman left Alabama after two seasons and will two years of eligibility remaining while Richmond comes from Virginia with one year of eligibility remaining after taking a redshirt season this past year.
North Florida men's head coach Mark Finnegan announced two incoming transfers for the upcoming season with Jefta Kecic and Charlie Sullivan set to join the team in the coming days. Sullivan appeared in a few matches at Elon last season and will have three years of eligibility remaining while Kecic playing at #1 singles for Western Michigan for the last two years and will have two years left.
The USTA Boys National Championships got underway on Friday in Kalamazoo with all the top seeds in singles having a first round bye but there was a big upset in doubles. The top seeded team of Michael Mmoh and Nathan Ponwith (Georgia commit) were beaten 7-6(5), 6-3 by Connor Hance ('17 UCLA commit) and Mac Kiger. Check out ZooTennis for further details and quotes from today's action.
All of the Boys 18 first round results are in my spreadsheet along with a list of the second round matches.
$25K Decatur, Illinois, USA F26 Futures
Quarterfinal Matches
#410 Marc Polmans def. #761 Jared Hiltzik (Illinois '16) 6-4, 6-1
#371 Evan King (Michigan '13) def. #421 Omar Jasika 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-4
#289 Tennys Sandgren (Tenn '11) def. #393 Gonzalo Escobar (Texas Tech '12) 6-3, 6-7(7), 6-1
#445 Roberto Quiroz (USC '15) def. #1400 Tom Fawcett (Stanford Rising Jr) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
Semifinals - Saturday
#371 Evan King (Michigan '13) vs. #410 Marc Polmans
#289 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee '11) vs. #445 Roberto Quiroz (USC '15)
Doubles Semifinals
N Pasha (UGA '15)/D Webb (Okla '15) def. A Lawson (ND '16)/D Koepfer 2-6, 7-6(4), 1-0 (2)
Jared Hiltzik/Rhyne Williams def. [2] Gonzalo Escobar/Alejandro Gomez ('Kentucky '14) 6-3, 6-4
Doubles Finals - Sunday 11am CT
Nathan Pasha (UGA '15)/Dane Webb (Okla '15) vs. Jared Hiltzik (ILL '16)/Rhyne Williams (TN '11)
Several other current and former college stars have made deep runs in pro events.
ATP
John Isner (Georgia '07) is in the semifinals in Atlanta
Challenger
Marcelo Arevalo (Tulsa '11) and Sekou Bangoura (Florida '11) are in the semis at $100K in Canada
Jason Jung (Michigan '11) is in the semifinals at the $125K in China
Futures
Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio State Rising Jr) is in the finals in Finland
Mikelis Libietis (Tennessee '15) is in the finals in Latvia
Yannick Maden (Clemson '13) is in the finals in Germany
Dragos Dima (Cornell '12) is in the finals in Romania
Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (North Carolina '12) is in the semis in Italy
Petr Michnev (Hawaii Pacific '14) is in the semis in Slovakia
Alexis Musialek (Kentucky '12) is in the semis in Belgium
Amy Sargeant to join OU's coaching staff as assistant coach ›› https://t.co/J2htG6PSc8 pic.twitter.com/ohXwVFvpVZ— Oklahoma Tennis (@OU_WTennis) August 5, 2016
Virginia Tech women's coach Terry Ann Zawacki-Woods announced the hiring of William Davis as the Hokies new assistant coach. Davis graduated from Michigan State in 2014 and served as the men's assistant coach at Washington & Lee the last two seasons.
We are pleased to announce the hiring of new assistant William Davis #ThisIsHome— VT Women's Tennis (@VT_WTennis) August 5, 2016
STORY: https://t.co/LQ5Hw3oS6Y pic.twitter.com/fR9dt5zljc
Central Florida's New Director of Tennis John Roddick announced three incoming transfers for the upcoming season in Korey Lovett, Danny Kerznerman, and Harrison Richmond. Both Lovett and Kerznerman left Alabama after two seasons and will two years of eligibility remaining while Richmond comes from Virginia with one year of eligibility remaining after taking a redshirt season this past year.
North Florida men's head coach Mark Finnegan announced two incoming transfers for the upcoming season with Jefta Kecic and Charlie Sullivan set to join the team in the coming days. Sullivan appeared in a few matches at Elon last season and will have three years of eligibility remaining while Kecic playing at #1 singles for Western Michigan for the last two years and will have two years left.
The USTA Boys National Championships got underway on Friday in Kalamazoo with all the top seeds in singles having a first round bye but there was a big upset in doubles. The top seeded team of Michael Mmoh and Nathan Ponwith (Georgia commit) were beaten 7-6(5), 6-3 by Connor Hance ('17 UCLA commit) and Mac Kiger. Check out ZooTennis for further details and quotes from today's action.
All of the Boys 18 first round results are in my spreadsheet along with a list of the second round matches.
$25K Decatur, Illinois, USA F26 Futures
Quarterfinal Matches
#410 Marc Polmans def. #761 Jared Hiltzik (Illinois '16) 6-4, 6-1
#371 Evan King (Michigan '13) def. #421 Omar Jasika 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-4
#289 Tennys Sandgren (Tenn '11) def. #393 Gonzalo Escobar (Texas Tech '12) 6-3, 6-7(7), 6-1
#445 Roberto Quiroz (USC '15) def. #1400 Tom Fawcett (Stanford Rising Jr) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
Semifinals - Saturday
#371 Evan King (Michigan '13) vs. #410 Marc Polmans
#289 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee '11) vs. #445 Roberto Quiroz (USC '15)
Doubles Semifinals
N Pasha (UGA '15)/D Webb (Okla '15) def. A Lawson (ND '16)/D Koepfer 2-6, 7-6(4), 1-0 (2)
Jared Hiltzik/Rhyne Williams def. [2] Gonzalo Escobar/Alejandro Gomez ('Kentucky '14) 6-3, 6-4
Doubles Finals - Sunday 11am CT
Nathan Pasha (UGA '15)/Dane Webb (Okla '15) vs. Jared Hiltzik (ILL '16)/Rhyne Williams (TN '11)
Several other current and former college stars have made deep runs in pro events.
ATP
John Isner (Georgia '07) is in the semifinals in Atlanta
Challenger
Marcelo Arevalo (Tulsa '11) and Sekou Bangoura (Florida '11) are in the semis at $100K in Canada
Jason Jung (Michigan '11) is in the semifinals at the $125K in China
Futures
Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio State Rising Jr) is in the finals in Finland
Mikelis Libietis (Tennessee '15) is in the finals in Latvia
Yannick Maden (Clemson '13) is in the finals in Germany
Dragos Dima (Cornell '12) is in the finals in Romania
Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (North Carolina '12) is in the semis in Italy
Petr Michnev (Hawaii Pacific '14) is in the semis in Slovakia
Alexis Musialek (Kentucky '12) is in the semis in Belgium
4 comments:
When is the latest coaches can bring in players for the fall? Were the last players signed in July and we are just hearing about it now? Does it make a difference if player is freshman or transfer? It seems a lot of internationals are added in the summer, but maybe the coach signed the player in the spring and it took a while for paperwork-student visa, etc. How do these late adds go through admissions? If a coach of D1 school (excluding the selective academic schools) has a player leave or transfer, can he get another player through admissions even after the normal deadlines if the player meets NCAA criteria?
Some coaches have the pull with admissions and the AD to get them whenever they want. There is not a deadline and depending on the value of the player and they importance of the program to the school, admissions can be easy to go through. Or not if they don't want to extend the effort because the player doesn't provide the value in doing so. There is so much Joe Public never sees or knows until they are on the inside.
Anonymous, since you imply you are on the onside, how are public universities able to have a mostly international team with only 4.5 scholarships? Aren't most internationals looking for 75%+ rides? That could maybe cover 6 guys...I could see it with private schools with endowments for merit/need, but most state public universities are stingy with merit and need-based aid. Plus NCAA requires either a 3.5, top 10% of class, or 1200 SAT for institutional merit aid not to count against 4.5. Doubtful all international players would meet that criteria (some Europeans are very smart but we knew a guy who had to take SAT 3x to get NCAA min800) but maybe there is some creative translation of transcripts or school records... Just curious about how some ranked midmajors and/or Power teams in less desirable locations are able to fund via athletic or other sources player scholarships and still stay within NCAA rules. One former D2 asst said almost all the international guys at publics in his conference got in state tuition so internationals were cheaper than out of state Americans-think they qualified under "geographic diversity". Just curious about how D1 teams worked it as I assume they have more scrutiny from NCAA.
"There is so much Joe Public never sees or knows until they are on the inside." Truth.
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