Born2WinTennis wrote:

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Julian had shoulder surgery about 2 months ago. I think he's out for 4-5 months. I guess until the start of 2019.

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 Thanks for that, Born2Win. What a shame. Hope he recovers well. 

Interesting to see who was recruiting, we obviously have a very strong 2001 group of boys who would be an asset in power conference college tennis. Three power conference programmes were present representing the Big 12, PAC 12 and ACC.

TCU men's tennis very strongly represented by David Roditi ex Mexican DC player and head coach who was part of the team that so succcessfully transitioned Cam to the ATP tour via the collegiate route and presently have Alistair Gray on their roster but if recruiting for fall 2019 will be looking to fill the hole left by Alex Rybakov. TCU offer power conference tennis in the BIG 12 and obviously by all reports Cam was very happy and successful time in Fort Worth close to Dallas.

Utah represented by their assistant coach, Dan Pollock a Brit! Utah also play Power Conference tennis in the PAC 12. They are a mid conference team but in a very powerful conference with most of the Californian colleges having top players looking to transition to the futures/challenger tour. It has been a good place for Dan Little to develop in the college system he has now worked his way up to the no 1 slot at Utah, gets tough in conference matches week in week out and through his sophomore and junior years built a national rank. Joe Woolley now into his senior year has been very much a team player contributing in doubles and down the order through his 3 years. They recruited in state last year and had to red shirt both players but have much stronger freshman this. Anyone recruited would be replacing Dan and the guy he replaced at No 1 this year who also regularly plays futures.

Georgia Tech a power conference College programme in the ACC represented by Jeremy Efferding, assistant coach. Their head coach has been in post for 20 years and has a very strong record of success in the ACC, generally they recruit in state with a couple of overseas guys making up the numbers presently they have a player from Hong Kong, Spain and Poland along with 6 local lads from Georgia. This represents the strength of Georgia tennis, Chris Eubanks (1996) who dipped into the world top 200 in June is a recent Alumni and in state recruit. In my time following college tennis they haven't recruited a Brit before.

The University of New Mexico play in the Mountain West and were represented by their British assistant coach Robby Goodman the head coach Ben Dunbar is from Nottingham, they are building a strong programme in the and have done a fantastic job with Rickey Hernandez Tonge. Who over his 4 years secured the no 1 slot and became the top singles player in the conference, making the national tournament. 

Two more (elite) academic schools were also represented neither play power conference tennis although increasingly Ivy League Colleges have featured in the nations top 25 rankings.

Princeton and Cal Poly were represented by their head coaches, The challenge for them is competing but also being academically very selective and therefore having to recruit from a much shallower pool of tennis talent. This does not impact on the quality of the coaching indeed Billy Pate the Princeton head coach has had success at Alabama at Alabama and there is a plethora of academic fellows linked to the tennis teams, who I presume provide academic support to keep academic standards high.

Cal Poly constantly referenced in "The Big Bang theorey" based half way up the Big Sur, were represented by Head Coach Nick Carless, in his 7 years he has twice been South Western College coach of the year, they play in the Big West Conference. Their students consistently rank in the top 10% academically. So again a student athlete experience in an amazing setting on the west coast where the student bit is also important. They Not had a Brit for a while although Matt Thompson transferred from NC state and played junior and senior years on the team 12-14.