Oklahoma Athletic Director Joe Castiglione announced the hiring of Nick Crowell as the Sooners new men’s head coach. Crowell, who is a 2000 Texas graduate, spent the last 13 years at Florida State with the first five as an assistant coach and the last eight as an associate head coach. Crowell will have some big shoes to fill after John Roddick took the Sooners to three straight NCAA finals and won 153 dual-matches in the last seven years. Crowell’s first task will be attempting to replace both Axel Alvarez and Andrew Harris which is going to be awfully tough to do on short notice.

Sam Houston State Athletic Director Bobby Williams announced the hiring of Rob Hubbard as the Bearkats new women’s head coach. Hubbard spent the last eight years as both the men’s and women’s head coach at UMBC but he was forced to find new employment after UMBC dropped tennis. Hubbard replaces Jim Giachino who stepped down after going 77-111 (.410) over the last nine years.

Wagner Athletic Director Walt Hameline announced on Thursday that Aida Castany was taking over as the new women’s head coach. Castany graduated from Augusta (Ga) University in December and had been working as a tennis pro at SPORTIME in New York. Castany replaces Adrienn Hidvegi who departed (reasons unknown) after two seasons.

Indiana men’s head coach Jeremy Wurtzman announced that he’s added a pair of transfers to increase his signing class for the coming season to six. Keivon Tabrizi (UTR 12.81) comes to Bloomington after spending the last two years at Wake Forest while Oliver Sec (UTR 12.98) comes in after spending his freshman year at UC Santa Barbara. Those two join the following freshman to complete the incoming class – Bennett Crane (UTR 13.52), Zac Brodney (UTR 12.49), Payam Ahmadi (UTR 12.41), and William Piekarsky (UTR 11.95). Wurtzman has to replace five seniors off last years team two of which were key starters – Sam Monette and Daniel Bednarczyk.

TCU’s Cameron Norrie saw his 12-match winning streak come to an end against Alex Sarkissian (Pepperdine ’14) in the opening round of the $75K Winnipeg Challenger. Norrie won the opening set 6-4 but Sarkissian took the second and third sets 6-2 and 6-4.

Illinois’s Aleks Vukic was playing in his first main draw Challenger match in Winnipeg but after winning the first set he dropped the next two and fell to Daniel Nguyen (USC ’12) 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.