Thanks for the responses. It's been helpful for me to read your posts because I had little sense of how rare or covert this sort of behaviour is by College coaches.


To add a little more background context after looking up some more info, Long Beach have the quite unbelievable record of having won the Divisional title in 14 of the last 16 years. They don't have a men's tennis team, only the women's.

http://www.bigwest.org/userfiles//16_Women_Tennis_Championship.pdf




Further, it's not pleasing to see that the coach has been there for 19 seasons and been awarded the title Big West Coach of the Year a record leading 8 times. And no doubt also commands a top tier salary for a College tennis coach. Ideally College tennis wouldn't be an environment where this sort of behaviour is encouraged and rewarded. Clearly, over that time period, anyone that is in charge of intervening on this sort of behaviour would have done so by now.

http://www.longbeachstate.com/sports/w-tennis/mtt/jenny_hilt_costello_341221.html





I read the updated post by The Optimist revealing that the 3 British girls were actively asked to move on. My first thought was well ok, that sounds a bit better. But I realise that could easily be in addition to, rather than instead of, being treated in a very unpleasant manner by the coach to encourage their exit. But i suddenly develop a sense that I don't want any of this writing to feel invasive for the girls and their families, who we only wish good things for here.


So it's very good to hear that they have found somewhere else and are happy, that is what is important now. And the excellent sounding advice also in that post on choosing a College couldn't be more pertinent than in cases like this. If the most successful College in a Division with good facilities and and boasting a coach with an outstanding record of success looks to recruit you, the opportunity may be much less than it may seem.

I think the girls cards were marked at Longbeach in that given the coach's track record for cutting and the 2014 win with 4 freshman in her team (who would now all be juniors) she is in a very strong position to cut early and win.

Her recruiting clout will remain potent as she is likely to win again this year and next and so again comes across as a top coach.

From her bio she was a walk on at UCLA a super elite div I program so although it shows a confidence in her own ability there is a certain irony in that as a player it is unlikely she would have been recruited by herself as she would not have appeared good enough or indeed as player tried to walk on to her programme as it doesn't appear good enough.

I am slightly reassured by the fact that such a stella serial winner has remained at Longbeach for so long. It implies the big Programmes understand how she wins and her methods. Theses methods would not stand up to scrutiny at the high profile programmes that surround her i.e. USC and UCLA; there they have the capacity to recruit players on the cusp of going pro at 18.

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Saturday 5th of November 2016 07:54:59 AM

Just to update on the championships (editing the ITA website):

The first of the mens doubles semifinal matchups features Jathan Malik and Kevin Wong of Michigan, who take on Skander Mansouri and Christian Seraphim, the No. 2 seeds out of Wake Forest. The other matchup pits Jeffrey Schorsch and Charlie Emhardt of Valparaiso against Columbia's Richard Pham and Victor Pham.

Well done to Mr Malik and partner!

Unfortunately Jathan and his partner lost their SF

 Christian Seraphim / Skanser Mansour (Wake Forest) bt Jathan Malik / Kevin Wong (Michigan) 3-6, 7-5, (10-4)

Also added Natasha M, Bronte M and Megan D to the list of those going.