Louisiana Tech Athletics Director Tommy McClelland announced the hiring of Amanda Stone as the Lady Techsters new women’s head coach. Stone comes to Ruston via D2’s Northeastern State (Okla) where she won 81% of her matches as head coach over the past four seasons. Stone graduated from Northeastern State in 2007 and also spent two seasons as an assistant at the University of Rochester prior to becoming coach at Northeastern State. Stone replaces Chad Camper who departed after three seasons to take the women’s head coaching job at Chattanooga.
BREAKING | Amanda Stone named new @LATechTen head coach. Welcome to the LA Tech Family! https://t.co/Dyz9xUaaeFpic.twitter.com/B7io11WpId— LA Tech Sports (@LATechSports) September 6, 2016
Cal State Fullerton women’s head coach Dianne Matias announced the hiring of Ellie Edles as the Titans new assistant coach. Edles graduated from UC Davis in 2013 and spent last season as an assistant coach at Middlebury. Edles replaces Mai-Ly Tran who left after three seasons to take the women’s head coaching job at Drake.
New Mexico men’s head coach Ben Dunbar announced the hiring of Robin Goodman as the Lobos new assistant coach. Goodman, who is a 2014 Drake graduate, spent the last two seasons as a volunteer assistant on Matt Knoll’s staff at Baylor. Dunbar was the assistant last season before his promotion to head coach this summer.
New Yale women’s head coach Danielle McNamara talked about her decision to return to New Haven in this article in the Yale News.
Recent Tulane graduate Dominik Koepfer talked about his experiences at this year’s US Open in this piece Add2Performance article.
US Open – The number of players with college ties continues to decrease after the Bryan Brothers were defeated plus Nicole Gibbs and Dennis Novikov lost their mixed doubles quarterfinal match. There is guaranteed to be at least one former collegian in the mixed doubles final with Rajeev Ram (Illinois) and Robert Farah (USC) facing off against each other.
US Open Men’s Doubles Quarterfinals
[8] Feliciano Lopez/Marc Lopez def. [3] Bob & Mike Bryan (Stanford ’98*) 7-6(2), 4-6, 6-3
Robert Lindstedt (Pepperdine ’98)/A Qureshi vs. [1] P Herbert/N Mahut
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US Open Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals
M Pavic/L Siegemund def. Nicole Gibbs (Stanford ’13*)/Dennis Novikov (UCLA ’13*) 6-2, 7-6(2)
Semifinals
[7] Rajeev Ram (ILL ’03*)/Coco Vandeweghe vs. Robert Farah (USC ’10)/Anna-Lena Groenefeld
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US Open Junior
Boys’ Singles Second Round
#6 [5] Miomir Kecmanovic def. #50 Brandon Holt (USC Fr) 7-5, 6-2
#24 JJ Wolf (’17 Ohio State commit) vs. #5 [4] Geoffrey Blancaneaux
#42 Liam Caruana (Texas ’15*) vs. #9 [7] Yosuke Watanuki
Boys’ Doubles First Round
Nick Stachowiak (Duke Fr)/Sean Sculley (’17 Duke cmt) def [1] U Blanch/Y Watanuki 6-4,2-6,1-0(8)
T Horie/Y Shimizu def. [5] JJ Wolf/John McNally (’17 Ohio St commits) 6-1, 6-7(6), 1-0 (7)
Oliver Crawford (’17 Florida commit)/Patrick Kypson def. A Lim/M Siimar 7-6(5), 7-6(5)
Anthony Jackie Tang (Columbia Fr)/C Lo def. A De Minaur/B Ellis 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (6)
Second Round
Nick Stachowiak (Duke Fr)/Sean Sculley (’17 Duke commit) vs. K Hossam/E Kirkin
Oliver Crawford (’17 Florida commit)/Patrick Kypson vs. Z Bergs/Y Oliel
Anthony Jackie Tang (Columbia Fr)/C Lo vs. [2] K Raisma/S Tsitsipas
Girls’ Singles Second Round
#71 [Q] Ashley Lahey (Pepperdine Fr) def. #58 [WC] Natasha Subhash 6-2, 6-3
Third Round
#71 [Q] Ashley Lahey (Pepperdine Fr) vs. #9 [8] Sofia Kenin
Girls’ Doubles Second Round
Jada Hart/Ena Shibahara (UCLA Fr’s) vs. I Cho/Y Naito
Morgan Coppoc (’17 Georgia commit)/Taylor Johnson vs. [8] M Mateas/I Minca
*notates last year at school (non-graduate)
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