US College Signings 2016 (and general college tennis chat)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

US College Signings 2016 (and general college tennis chat)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thanks, Kenneth and Oakie, appreciate it.

Where does Emily Smith's conference rank?

Kenneth · Lower Club Player

The champions league one is a good analogy. The NFL bit was more for simplicity in that it's the same season and follows straight on. Academically some of the smaller private colleges will be much better than some of the bigger places, smaller classes, better professors, etc. Also the bigger places will be all out to win the tennis matches and not as fussed always about academics. OR will maybe encourage students to do easier courses as they don't have time to study for harder ones. They make no differentiation in the college when saying students have got a high GPA as to why subject that was but clearly 4 in one subject could be a lot easier to get than in another. Hope that makes sense?

I think Emily's is one of the higher ones but Optimist will be better placed to confirm that.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Coup Droit wrote:
Thanks, Kenneth and Oakie, appreciate it.

Where does Emily Smith's conference rank?

Rice is in Conference USA, one of the bigger conferences with 14 teams and yes, quite a strong conference although it's a mixture of very strong and relatively weak teams. Just for interest, I thought I'd have a look at the player UTRs to see how strong it was. I've listed the teams in the order they finished regular conference play, which is how they were seeded for the conference knockout championships which Rice just won. I've put the UTR of the top player and player #6

Florida International 10.73 - 8.86

Rice 10.83 - 9.8

North Texas 10.12 - 9.31

Old Dominion 10.39 - 9.23

Marshall 10.6 - 7.92

Louisiana Tech 10.3 - 8.82

Southern Miss 9.79 - 8.26

Middle Tennessee State 10.14 - 8.56

Western Kentucky 9.87 - 7.36

Texas El Paso - 10.14 - 8.30

Charlotte 9.49 - 8.03

Florida Atlantic 9.53 - 8.11

Texas San Antonio 9.84 - 8.52

Alabama Birmingham 9.12 - 8.42

Obviously some teams will have more players nearer the standard of the #1 and others with most of the team nearer #6 but in practice the top half of this conference is considerably stronger than the bottom half. Rice have won the knockout championship 4 years on the spin.

Spectator · All-time great

Rice is also one of the top 20 universities in the US, according to this ranking system, which seems fairly comprehensive: colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

I don't think that the other schools are particularly strong academically, though I didn't check them all.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Sums it up really, Rice is a top school although not quite at the level that has Rice on faculty. A free scholarship (funded by a well supported although not elite football program, there are only a finite amount of academic footballers to go round) definitely not to be sniffed at hence the highest UTR and smallest range.

The area around the campus is one of the nicest in Houston but.... it is in Houston a great city if your big in oil or sick but for the most part has the ambience of a cross between the docks at Immingham and Iron works in Scunny

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Added Elise VH and Claudette G

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

As well as Emily Smith, a few other Brits have represented their universities in the finals of their conference championships:

Women

American Athletic

Chloe Murphy (South Florida) played dubs but match unfinished.

Tulsa bt South Florida

Colonial Athletic

Abby Amos (James Madison) lost her dubs match

William & Mary bt James Madison

Conference USA

Emily Smith (Rice) bt Andrea Lazaro (Florida International) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3

Emily also won her dubs

Rice bt Florida International

Northeast

Shreya Pasricha (Fairleigh Dickinson) bt Nina Luiggi (Bryant) 6-3, 6-0

Nina won her dubs

Fairleigh Dickinson bt Bryant

Ohio Valley

Monique Krutak (Southern Illinois-Edwardsville) bt Jemima Potter (Tennessee-Martin) 6-0, 6-1

Jemima won her dubs

Southern Illinois-Edwardsville bt Bryant

Men

American Athletic

Matt Kirby (Tulsa) lost his dubs

South Florida bt Tulsa

Atlantic Sun

Chris Reynolds (George Washington) bt Daryl Monfils (Virginia Commonwealth) 6-3, 6-4

Chris also won his dubs

George Washington bt Virginia Commonwealth

Conference USA

Adam Moundir (Old Dominion) bt Jamie Malik (Rice) 7-5, 6-1

Tommy Bennet (Rice) v Aziz Kijametovic (Old Dominion) 6-2, 5-6 susp

They both won their dubs (but not playing with each other)

Rice bt Old Dominion

Southwestern Athletic

Takura Mlambo (Alabama State) bt Camilo Patino (Jackson State) 6-3, 6-3

Federico Boscarino (Jackson State) bt Ronald Mataba (Alabama State) 6-2, 6-2

Takura won his dubs, Ronald lost his

Jackson State bt Alabama State

Quite a few conferences are still to play over this weekend. Will update if any more Brits involved

-- Edited by The Optimist on Friday 29th of April 2016 01:32:36 PM

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Added Rohan S and Rory G to P1

Spectator · All-time great

Tennis Recruiting has added its list of top recruiting classes for women (www.tennisrecruiting.net/article.asp) and men (www.tennisrecruiting.net/article.asp) to its website. Both the lists and the analysis are interesting.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Thanks for posting, on the girls side the LSU freshman although ranked highest as a class (and I am sure all three will be playing singles at some point) appear to get that ranking on the consistency of the level of recruitment, although smaller classes, the UNC and Stanford classes contain the strongest individual players who I can see impact the NCAA rankings from the get go.

Spectator · All-time great

Agree that sometimes a spectacular player can be more important than an overall recruiting class. Not sure I agree that North Carolina and Stanford have that advantage over LSU, given Raveena Kingsley's results so far this year ... she's the number one ranked recruit for a reason. Think the big question will be whether she actually attends university.

-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 2nd of May 2016 08:49:36 AM

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

It's the time of year when Conferences give out their annual awards. I was particularly impressed with this one regarding Georgina Sellyn of Vanderbilt who has been given the conference's scholar-athlete of the year award - basically the award for the most academic women's tennis player in the conference.

'Scholar-Athlete of the Year was awarded to Vanderbilt's Georgina Sellyn. A Cognitive Neuroscience major with a 3.671 GPA, she owns an 8-4 SEC regular season record, winning predominantly on court 5 and went 6-3 in conference doubles with Fernanda Contreras on court three. Sellyn was accepted to work on a research team under the current chief of surgery at Vanderbilt next year. In addition, she published an abstract submitted to The American Paediatric Surgical Association "The Role of Complete Primary Tumor Resection in Advanced-Stage Neuroblastoma".' Wow!!

In the same release, Alannah Griffin of Auburn was voted as a member of the SEC All-Freshman team - basically one of the top 8 freshmen in the conference.

Spectator · All-time great

Wow indeed. Good for her. Is this her final year?

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

All the conference championships have now been played at the Brits involved in the remaining ones were:

Men

Big 12

#6 Cameron Norrie (Texas Christian) bt #18 Felipe Soares (Texas Tech) 6-2, 6-4

Alex Sendegeya (Texas Tech) bt #87 Guillermo Nunez (Texas Christian) 6-2, 6-3

Both Alex and Cameron played and won dubs for their respective universities

Texas Christian bt Texas Tech 4-2

Horizon

Jeffrey Schorsch (Valparaiso) bt Howard Scott (Wisconsin-Green Bay) 6-2, 6-4

Garrett Gardner (Valparaiso) bt Charlie Ridout (Wisconsin-Greeen Bay) 3-6, 6-2, 6-1

Howard played but lost his dubs

Valparaiso bt Wisconsin-Green Bay 4-0

Missouri Valley

Ben Lott (Drake) bt #83 Tim Ostojic (Wichita State) 0-6, 7-6, 6-2

Vinny Gillespie (Drake) bt Miroslav Herzand (Wichita State) 6-7, 7-5, 6-3

Calum MacGeoch (Drake) bt Jocelyn Devilliers (Wichita State) 6=3, 7-6

Eddie Stoic (Wichita State) bt Tom Hands (Drake) 7-5, 6-2

Sergio De Vichez (Wichita State) bt Ben Stride (Drake) 0-6, 6-4, 6-4

Ben Wood (Drake) played dubs but lost his match

Ben Lott/Ben Stride played dubs together but lost

Vinny and Calum also played dubs together and lost

Wichita State bt Drake 4-3

Mountain West

Toby Mitchell (Boise State) bt Ruben Alberts (Nevada-Las Vegas) 7-6, 6-3

Richard Solberg (Nevada-Las Vegas) bt Lewis Roskilly (Boise State) 4-6, 6-0, 6-3

Toby+ played and lost dubs

Lewis+ played and lost dubs

Nevada-Las Vegas bt Boise State 4-3

Southern

Josh Pistorius (Furman) v Sebastian Yllera (East Tennessee State) 6-4, 3-6 susp

Josh also played dubs but lost

East Tennessee State bt Furman 4-0

Southland

Jeandre Hoogenboezen (Lamar) bt Paul Cook (Texas A&M-Corpus Christi) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3

Paul+ was leading dubs when match suspended

Lamar bt Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 4-1

Summit

David Fox (Denver) v Kenneth Boykin (Oral Roberts) 7-5, 3-0 susp

Alex Gasson (Denver) bt Michael Sosnowski (Oral Roberts) 6-1, 6-2

Alex also played dubs but lost his match

Denver bt Oral Roberts 4-0

West Coast

Jordan Angus San Diego) bt Lautaro Pane (Pepperdine) 6-0, 6-0

Jordan/Josh Page played dubs together and won

San Diego bt Pepperdine 4-0

Women

Big 12

Carla Tur Mari (Oklahoma State) v Sabrina Federici (Texas Tech) 6-4, 5-5 susp

Sabrina also played dubs but lost

Oklahoma State bt Texas Tech 4-0

Metro Atlantic

Chloe Lant (Marist) bt Sitilia Rencheli (Quinnipiac) 6-3, 6-4

Chloe also played but lost her dubs

Quinnipiac bt Marist 4-3

Missouri Valley

Rebecca Pedrazzi (Wichita State) bt Athena Chrysanthou (Southern Illinois) 6-2, 6-0

Athena also lost her dubs match

Wichita State bt Southern Illinois 5-3

Mountain West

Aiwen Zhu (Nevada-Las Vegas) bt Sophie Watts (Fresno) 6-1, 6-0

Cristina Moroi (Nevada-Las Vegas) bt Anneka Watts (Fresno) 6-2, 6-3

Olivia Noble (Fresno) played and won dubs

Sophie/Anneka also won their dubs

Nevada-Las Vegas bt Fresno 4-2

Summit

Maureen Slattery (Denver) v Ffion Davies (South Dakota State) 6-2, 3-2 susp

Charlotte Derbyshire (Denver) v Tracy Haws-Lay (South Dakota State) 6-4, 2-1 susp

Charlotte+ won their dubs

Ffion+ leading when dubs suspended

Denver bt South Dakota State 4-0

Western Athletic

Regen Greenwood (Texas-Rio Grande) played both singles and dubs for her university but both matches were suspended, scores not recorded

Texas Rio-Grande bt New Mexico State 4-2