The year end regional rankings have also been published.  These are voted on by the coaches in the various regions and although they obviously include the stars they also highlight those who are playing well and having a solid college career even if they have not majorly troubled the rankings - maybe because of team position, because their matches rarely finish, they are in a conference with few ranked players, or because they are in a high position in a weaker team in their conference and always playing superstar opponents.  They rank top 20 in singles and top 10 in dubs.  For those unfamiliar with college tennis, the regions cut across conferences or leagues.  There are 12 regions and around 30 conferences (varies between men and women)  Some conferences are entirely contained within one region but in many cases teams from one conference may be allocated to 2 or 3 different regions. 

Edit: re-reading the list of names, this year nearly all of the Brits mentioned have been in the rankings, just one or 2 exceptions.

Women:

Atlantic Region

3 - Holly Hutchinson - Old Dominion

Central Region

19 - Elise Van Huevelen - Iowa

20 - Zoe Douglas - Iowa

Dubs

9 - Elise Van Huevelen - Iowa

Mountain

19 - Louise Ronaldson - Colorado

Dubs

4 - Louise Ronaldson - Colorado

Northwest

12 - Emily Arbuthnott - Stanford

Dubs

2 - Emily Arbuthnott - Stanford

Ohio Valley

Dubs

2 - Emily Smith - Vanderbilt

3 - Kim Schmider - Indiana-Bloomington

Southern

14 - Georgie Axon - Auburn

18 - Alannah Griffin - Auburn

Dubs

7 - Georgie Axon - Auburn

8 - Alannah Griffin - Auburn

Texas

18 - Sabrina Federici - Texas Tech

Dubs

3 - Sabrina Federici - Texas Tech

Men:

Carolinas

14 - Henry Patten - North Carolina-Asheville

Dubs

10 - Jake Munns - Furman

Central

4 - Julian Cash - Oklahoma State

10 - Vinny Gillespie - Drake

Dubs

2 - Julian Cash - Oklahoma State

Midwest

8 - Jathan Malik - Michigan

19 - Josef Dodridge - Wisconsin

Dubs

4 - Jathan Malik - Michigan

Mountain

1 - Dan Little - Utah

8 - Ricky Hernandez-Tong - New Mexico

11 - Dominic West - New Mexico

Dubs

1 - Alex Gasson - Denver

3 - Dominic West - New Mexico

8 - Dan Little - Utah

8 - Joe Woolley - Utah

9 - Ricky Hernandez-Tong - New Mexico

Northeast

6 - Charles Broom - Dartmouth

12 - Tom Colautti - Princeton

Dubs

8 - Charles Broom - Dartmouth

Northwest

9 - Piers Foley - Washington

Ohio Valley

8 - Ryan Peniston - Memphis

10 - Andrew Watson - Memphis

14 - Rob Mitchell - Lipscomb

Dubs

8 - Andrew Watson - Memphis

Southeast

6 - Jack Findel-Hawkins - North Florida

10 - Max Andrews - Miami-Florida

Southeast

11 - Sebastian Rey - Tulane

13 - Ewan Moore - Tulane

Dubs

6 - Sebastian Rey - Tulane

Southwest

Dubs

7 - Josh Page - San Diego

Texas

1 - Cameron Norrie - Texas Christian

Dubs

6 - Cameron Norrie - Texas Christian

As I've mentioned in the past, the college system sets great store by Universal Tennis Ratings, especially during the recruitment process.  For those unfamiliar with it, it rates players from 1 (low) to 16 (high) to 2 decimal places.  It takes account matches played in pro tennis, junior ITFs, college tennis and domestic matches played under the umbrella of various national tennis associations including in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and several others.  It considers a maximum of 30 matches as long as they have been played within the last 12 month period and uses an algorithm taking into account the current rating of each player and the number of games won / lost.  (It's not too dissimilar to the French rating system in the way it operates for those who are familiar with that system).  As it's the end of the college year a list of the top 50 college players by UTR has been published for each gender.  Only 3 Brits on the list

1.  Cameron Norrie - Texas Christian - 15.04

36.  Julian Cash - Oklahoma State - 14.38

42.  Emily Arbuthnott - Stanford - 11.27

The Optimist wrote:

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Yes you are right Spectator.  I haven't put them up though as I'm waiting for their official press release, just in case I miss somebody out, but I thought it would be up by now.  There's also an All-Star Team of 6 singles players and 3 dubs pairs to be announced and I would have thought Cam and Emily S would make that as well.

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 The Div 1 All Star Team this year consists of the finalists of the NCAA singles/dubs event and the winner of the NCAA Indoor Event earlier in the year so no Brits chosen.  But....it seems each level of tennis has it's All Star Team and for Junior College (JUCO) this consists of one singles and one dubs player of each gender.  Take a bow Jasmine Asghar who was selected as the singles player on the basis of winning an individual NJCAA singles title.

Yes, if you have to go through the junior college route you can't do better than Tyler.  Jasmine is an interesting one - bit of a Laura Robson in some ways.  I saw her quite a bit as a junior and from quite a young age.  Like Laura, she had the best natural timing and power you could see combined with the very worst movement possible.  She did her growing quite young and so was physically impressive in the young age groups, although as an adult she is fairly short and stocky.  She played for GB as a real youngster and trained quite a bit at the NTC and I think all around her felt her future was set and so academics became a very low priority.  Unfortunately, although she got a professional ranking - about 1000 I think - she never developed as expected.  Her reputation amongst other juniors was that she was a bit lazy and didn't really have a full focus on her tennis.  I suspect that she got away with less than 100% effort because she was able to win with just her natural talent for such a long time but, as in this case, that is never enough in the long term.  I believe her academics were in such a mess that she had to really work hard in that area to even make JUCO.  She will certainly transfer to a top tennis school next summer.  I think there's a fair chance the discipline and focus of college may be the making of her and that we may eventually see her reach her potential as a professional.  The moral of the story is kids, no matter how rosy things seem as a 'tweenager', don't ignore your schooling..........

Congratulations to Jodie who has been recruited to the Machester United of ladies college tennis. Playing in arguably the strongest power conference, the SEC.

Reigning NCAA champions with great depth in their programme she will do very well to play above the No 4 slot this year but even no 3 would be a great start, if that evolves to No 1 over the next few years of eligibility she would be well placed to go pro. Academically it is also considered one of the best colleges in the South East. I hope she really enjoys her time in Gainesville.

As an aside it will be interesting to see if UCF become serious local rivals to the dominant Florida programme given the opening of the new USTA national training centre in Orlando will also be their base. As part of the remit of the new national centre USTA plan to have a specific college tennis focus in Orlando closely integrated with their pro set up. A number of top US pros have relocated including Ci Ci Bellis. There definitely will be no shortage of high quality hitting partners.