US College Signings and General College Chat 2020/21

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RE: US College Signings and General College Chat 2020/21

Elegant Point · Satellite level

JonH wrote:

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Cool, thanks. Perhaps Indy will get Broom on his winners list if they win. And dont forget player of the month nominations!

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Baylor lost - more of a team event than an individual, but Charlie had a great singles win..............

# 4 Baylor Falls 4-1 to #2 North Carolina in ITA National Indoor Championship

Doubles: Kieger/Soendergaard (NC) def Broom/Soto 6-3

singles '#103 Charlie Broom collected his fifth-consecutive straight-sets victory by defeating # 100 Joshua Peck 6-0, 6-3 6-0, 6-3 win over #100 Josh Peck at #5'

https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2021/02/14/north-carolina-men-win-second-indoors-title/

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Looks like Connor Thomson was the hero yesterday - clinched the win for the team by getting his match, 6-3 in the third

twitter.com/conthom16

THere's a little Youtube 5-minuter that Connor put up recently too, about his uni and their tennis programme (more just a little tour of the place, really, and the facilities)

www.youtube.com/watch

Elegant Point · Satellite level

cya wrote:
cya wrote:
Some more names for 2021

- Will Nolan - Auburn
- Tom Owen - Buffallo (Spring 2021)
- Jamie Bixby - University of North Alabama (Spring 2021)
- Conor Gannon (from Tennis Ireland) - Tennessee
- Max Basing - Stanford

- Holly Fischer - Harvard
- Sofia Johnson - ODU
- Eleanor Nobbs - DePaul University, Chicago
- Alicia Dudeney - University of Florida (verbal commitment)
- Grace Piper - University of Southern California
- Sophia Hurrion - Marshall University
- Olivia Rook - St. Mary's , California
- Amelie Fryer - Shorter University Div II (Spring 2021)

-- Edited by cya on Wednesday 11th of November 2020 09:42:39 PM
Added Max Basing

Joel Pierleoni who commits to UNM Men's Tennis Team Fall 2021. Harry Rock will join a number of Brits at the University of Memphis (Fall 2021)

Wonder if the O will start a new thread as the list of those going in 2021 is growing?

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Tuesday 2nd of March 2021 11:56:18 AM

Elegant Point · Satellite level

College Tennis Pathway : Boise State Womens Tennis Head Coach Beck Roghaar, Arizona Womens Tennis Head Coach Ryan Stotland, and the ITA Managing Director Dave Mullins to speak on a panel about the college tennis pathway.

Coaches discuss what players and parents should be looking for when deciding between schools, the benefits of all five divisions of college tennis, how college tennis benefits an athlete holistically, and more.

https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2021/01/29/tennis-australia-2021-virtual-grand-slam-coaches-conference-us-college-coach-panel/

Dave Mullins, Managing Director at ITA, provides insight into what the past year has entailed. Dave talks about his tennis journey from Ireland to the states and why he got involved with college tennis.

https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2021/03/04/dave-mullins-chats-with-stack-sports-about-college-tennis-tennis-for-america/

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with any of the above, just an interest in following college tennis wink

This week the Oracle ITA Team Rankings expanded to include the top 50 teams in the nation. For the third straight week, 2021 Indoors champions North Carolina top the list. Similarly, the rest of the top seven teams also remained unchanged.However, the middle portion of the rankings saw a lot of change. Teams ranked from No. 8 to No. 16 mainly shuffled around one or two spaces over the past week. The largest increase came from No. 22 Memphis. The Tigers rose three spots over the past week. Memphis was also recently named the UTR ITA Team of the Month for February. Current Brits include David Stevens, Oscar Cutting and James Storey.

https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2021/03/03/oracle-ita-division-i-mens-team-rankings-march-3-2021/

Podcast by the Memphis coach. https://gotigersgo.com/sports/2020/10/20/inside-memphis-athletics-podcast.aspx

And the womens Top 50 National Teams

https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2021/03/10/oracle-ita-division-i-womens-team-rankings-march-10-2021/

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Sunday 7th of March 2021 06:10:46 PM

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Friday 12th of March 2021 03:04:57 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lui Maxted (one of our brightest young hopes, with fans on this site) has signed up with TCU for the 2021/22 roster, which is where Ali Gray and Jake Fearnley are.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Baylor Mens Tennis
@BaylorMTennis
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20h
From childhood friends in the UK, to doubles partners at Baylor Raising hands

Congrats to
@finn_bass
and
@charliebroom98
on their first collegiate win together!

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Coup Droit wrote:
Baylor Mens Tennis
@BaylorMTennis
·
20h
From childhood friends in the UK, to doubles partners at Baylor Raising hands

Congrats to
@finn_bass
and
@charliebroom98
on their first collegiate win together!

Interesting how this pair both originally from Herts have ended up at Baylor. Quite different pathways........ Charlie is very bright and excels academically, has always been full time in a mainstream school and trained part time at Gosling. He then attended Dartmouth College prior to joining Baylor as a Graduate transfer (the Ivies didnt offer a 5th year).

Finn trained full time at Gosling (one of the LTA,s Future Stars ) before moving to Somerset where he attended Millfield for ~5 years then moved to the JTC training centre in London and was home schooled. Dad Gary Bass worked at LLoyds and is now allegedly dabbling in a new venture, Ginger Sports Productions, so money no object. Finn ground it out on the Futures for a year without massive success, so took the plan B option of College in the US. Now giving his home location as Rock, Finn has always remained as Hertfordshire on the LTA site, although he has only chosen to compete for the county on a handful of occasions.

Cracked rackets college contender series focuses on Baylor Bears. Baylor Mens Tennis Head Coach Michael Woodson discusses the new additions to the Baylor roster, team lineups, the decision to head to Ann Arbor for the ITA kickoff weekend and much more.

https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2021/01/07/college-contenders-baylor-university/

Edited to add cracked rackets link

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Thursday 25th of March 2021 02:53:41 PM

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Live top 1000 ATP/WTA rankings for College players

Can be sorted by player or college.
Brits spotted are Cam Norrie (52), Ryan Penniston (373), (Paul Jubb (493), Lloyd Glasspool (494) and mens doubles, Joe Salisbury (12), Neal Skupski(23), Ken Skupski (47), Dom Inglot (1815) Sorry if I have missed anyone!

The colleges with the highest number of singles players on tour for men are are UCLA (10), USC(9), Virginia (7) and for women UCL (9), Pepperdine (8), USC(7).

Mens singles: collegetennisranks.com/rankings/playersontour/atpsingles/bySchool

mens doubles: collegetennisranks.com/rankings/playersontour/atpdoubles

Womens singles: collegetennisranks.com/rankings/playersontour/wtasingles

Womens doubles: collegetennisranks.com/rankings/playersontour/wtadoubles

Tennpar · Strong Club Player

British collegiate women featuring in the WTA list top 1000 singles players are Sam Murray (205) and Alicia Barnett (600) both ex Northwestern

In the doubles: Sam (181) and Alicia (238) and also Emily Arbuthnott, currently at Stanford

Tennpar · Strong Club Player

The first of the ITA collegiate rankings for the year came out this week:

In the singles: Indi Spink, Arkansas (44), Bronte Murgett, Missouri (112), Georgie Axon, Auburn (116)

Doubles: Megan Davies, Southern Carolina (15); Ester Adeshina, Tennessee (25); Vic Allen, FSU (29, 5 & 68 with different partners); Holly Staff, Vanderbilt (31); Hannah McColgan, Northwestern (54); Bronte Murgett, MIssouri (55); Camille Verden-Anderson, Denver (61); Eden Richardson, LSU (71)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Really good to see so many girls at top programmes in the SEC.

Currently excited by Connor and Tobys progress at University of South Carolina in the SEC where there is depth in the top programmes.

Playing right at the top of the order in the SEC gives you regular ITF level/challenger professional standard competition. A 4-3 loss to the Tar Heels when you are so dependent on Freshman and then Connor only lost in the third against the no 41 ranked player nationally.

He will really have to fight for that No 1 spot Rodrigues a Portuguese sophmore beat the nations no 6 in the number 1 slot.
Connor appears to have forced himself into the number 2 slot through weight of performance at 3 and Toby similarly competing hard for the 3 position. Getting up the order yet having that depth of quality in practice will be great for them both.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Elegant Point wrote:

The colleges with the highest number of singles players on tour for men are are UCLA (10), USC(9), Virginia (7) and for women UCL (9), Pepperdine (8), USC(7).

Interesting isnt it. The very positive tennis microclimate that exists in Southern California of which UCLA, USC and Pepperdine (for women) are a major part. The density of good players means local prospects dont (consider) necessarily having to step out of state let alone internationally for competition with the colleges recruiting a significant proportion of their players in state also. Chuck in the NorCal schools and local ITFs/challengers (the autumn west coast challenger swing) and its an almost perfect environment for college subsidised progression into the pro-game.

Only Pepperdine doesnt have massive Football and Basketball programmes raking in the cash, College football is so massive in LA there was until relatively recently no NFL sides and the locals werent that bothered.

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Transfers 2021

Not someone Ive heard of, but Sophomore Matthis Ross (UTR 12.79) of Virginia Tech will transfer and has verbally committed to @AggieMTEN for the fall of 2021. The Brit has played primarily at the #2 singles/#3 doubles spots this season & has amassed an overall singles record of 14-13. ITA singles rank of #96.

other news:
Oliver Okonkwo beats ranked opponent as Hawkeyes fall to Ohio State. Oliver will transfer to Drake when Iowa shuts mens tennis at the end of the semester.

Oliver Okonkwo (UI) def. #112 Kyle Seelig (OSU): 6-3, 1-6, 1-0 (10-7)

https://hawkeyesports.com/news/2021/03/28/no-16-ohio-state-beats-hawkeyes/

Not sure if the O is still active? Would anyone else like to start a 2021/22 college tennis thread? Cya (and others) have added a long list of those going in 2021....

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Tuesday 30th of March 2021 01:47:40 PM

cya · Intermediate Club Player

Elegant Point wrote:
Transfers 2021

Not someone Ive heard of, but Sophomore Matthis Ross (UTR 12.79) of Virginia Tech will transfer and has verbally committed to @AggieMTEN for the fall of 2021. The Brit has played primarily at the #2 singles/#3 doubles spots this season & has amassed an overall singles record of 14-13. ITA singles rank of #96.
other news:
Oliver Okonkwo beats ranked opponent as Hawkeyes fall to Ohio State. Oliver will transfer to Drake when Iowa shuts mens tennis at the end of the semester.
Oliver Okonkwo (UI) def. #112 Kyle Seelig (OSU): 6-3, 1-6, 1-0 (10-7)
https://hawkeyesports.com/news/2021/03/28/no-16-ohio-state-beats-hawkeyes/

Not sure if the O is still active? Would anyone else like to start a 2021/22 college tennis thread? Cya (and others) have added a long list of those going in 2021....

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Tuesday 30th of March 2021 01:47:40 PM

Thread started , copied across list for those freshmen starting in Fall 2021. The new thread doesn't include the transfers currently - so please add if you have the info

-- Edited by cya on Tuesday 30th of March 2021 03:31:49 PM