Elegant Point wrote:

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                              Tennpar- UTR's added for the guys

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Thank you for taking the time to do this Tp 

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 EP, as a follower, I'm still contemplating the somewhat more challenging 'This Years Graduates'. Time precludes at the moment for me, but I'll see what I can do..

Just read a post on twitter from Holly Hutchinson. She's planning on taking up the extra year and staying on at ODU to do a Masters.

Potential Div 1 Women graduating 2020

Will be interesting to see who stays for the extra year, and who moves on to take up new opportunities

NAME                                      UNI                    SINGLES POSITION         UTR
      
Abigail Amos                          Arizona                           3                         9.88     Transfer from James Madison to Arizona to do a masters
Emily Arbuthnott                    Stanford                         2                        11.20     Also plays doubles position 1 with Angelica Blake
Georgie Axon                         Auburn                           4                        10.46
Ellie Baker                             Kennesaw State               6                         6.57
Lidia Burrows                         Mid Tennessee Sta           3                          9.79
Claudette Gillespie                  New Orleans                   5                          8.70
Holly Horsfall                          Samford                         6                          8.61
Holly Hutchinson                     Old Dominion                  1                       10.89 Going back extra year to OD to do a masters;sis Scarlett starting at Fairfield 2020      Georgia Lawson                      Fresno                            2                          9.31
Joely Lomas                           Drake                              2                          9.09
Serena Nash                          Oklahoma                        1                          9.93
Constandena Nicolaou             Sam Houston State          3                          9.48
Elsa Pool                                Samford                          3                          9.07
Mia Smith                               San Diego State              4                           9.19
Bethan Taylor                         Presbyterian                    1                           9.04
Darinka Tiboldi                       Stephens F Austin            1                           9.31
Elise van Heuvelen                  Iowa                               1                        10.84
Brodie Walker                         N. Illinois                        4                           8.42
Lauren Watson Steele              N. Carolina Asheville        4                           8.56

Hope I've not forgotten anyone

Why, when I do these sorts of tables, do the columns not quite line up   and how d'you fix it?

 

I suspect most will stay on.  As the competition season was cancelled, they get another year of eligibility so can get a masters paid for.  I wonder what this will mean for those signing up for this year though.

The irony is it is the internationals that raise the quality of the SEC and indeed the NCAA tournament generally providing the quality of competition that allows the USTA to develop some players from college tennis. Bin the internationals and the standard of even the power conference tournaments drops way below that if a 15K. The USTA has made a massive commitment to developing college tennis as a route to the pro game cutting the internationals would be a really backward step.

Not surprised this type of rhetoric comes from the Hogs. Arkansas is traditional American sport focus massively pro football focused with big crowds but only moderate success given the elite adjacent Alabama schools. Basketball & Baseball also have big footprints. The tittle IX restrictions would I am sure protect the womens scholarships.

Elegant Point wrote:

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also one from ZooTennis which précis a lengthy article written by Prof Steve Dittmore, Athletic Director at Arkansas who asks if D1 tennis should be the one of the first sports cut post pandemic ? He reasons the rosters on most mens SEC teams are full of internationals and therefore scholarship  is not benefiti Americans - interestingly he doesn't look at his own program where 9 of the 11 spots are taken by internationals 

https://tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com/2020/04/should-tennis-be-among-first-ncaa-d-i.html?fbclid=IwAR2XexacnPjnxPodkorY1bQF_xuGBqiCanwU4btTQm4QjXIi370cyIgCb98

 

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Friday 10th of April 2020 08:44:06 AM

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A reply from Tim Russell CEO of the ITA - suggesting Steve Ditmores article was overly simplistic and potentially damaging to tennis and many other college sports. He reaffirms what many know; that colleges support tennis for the values the sport brings to their universities and their communities and should not be viewed simply as factories for churning out US Olympic tennis players.

https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2020/04/15/ita-ceo-tim-russell-responds-to-athleticdirectoru/

The NCAA rejected the request from 5 conference commissioners to grant blanket waivers to the requirement that FBS (football bowl subdivision) schools sponsor 16 sports and FCS (football championship subdivision) 14!   " These are not just exceptional athletes, but outstanding students with graduation rates and donation rates higher than their non academic peers. These students generate $3.6 billion in tuition and revenue for their colleges, an amount almost equal to what it costs to provide these opportunities "

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/di-council-continues-covid-19-impact-discussions

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Sunday 26th of April 2020 10:23:33 AM

Great news, and really look forward to following his progress