by Bobby Knight | Jun 18, 2016 | Blog
Former Drake women’s coach Sadhaf Pervez was named as the new men’s head coach at Southern Utah. Pervez was the head coach of the women’s team at Drake for two and a half seasons but left abruptly in between the fall and spring semesters this past season. Southern Utah started it’s men’s program in the fall of 2012 but it’s been tough sleeding so far with the Thunderbirds a combined 0-58 with 52 of those losses being shutouts. Click here or on the tweet for the full release.Sadhaf Pervez Named as SUU Men’s Tennis Head Coach | https://t.co/W3Sz9mQx0k #TBirdNation pic.twitter.com/17N3tYjV8E SUUTennis...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 17, 2016 | Blog
The 2016 NCAA Singles and Doubles Champion and recently named ITA National Player of the Year Mackenzie McDonald announced today that he was leaving UCLA a year early and turning pro. Many people including myself figured it was a foregone conclusion that McDonald would move on after a tremendous junior year and he made it official after signing an exclusive representation agreement with Octagon.2016 @NCAATennis singles and doubles champion, Mackie McDonald will forgo his senior year and turn pro immediately. Best of luck Mack! UCLA Men’s Tennis (@uclatennis) June 16, 2016Colette Lewis had a Q&A with Mackie after today’s announcement so I highly...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 16, 2016 | Blog
On May 4th it was announced that Arizona State was bringing back its men’s tennis program and today came the announcement that Adam Steinberg was leaving Michigan to become the Sun Devils new head coach. Steinberg, who had coached Michigan for the last two years and Pepperdine the 12 prior including the 2006 NCAA Championship team, will have a full year to build the program from scratch. Here is Arizona State’s release which lists all his past accomplishments.Stanford junior Carol Zhao announced that she is foregoing her senior season to turn pro. Zhao went 76-16 in three years at Stanford and was a three-time all-conference selection. Zhao...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 15, 2016 | Blog
The ITA announced its 2016 All-Star Team which included the year-end number one in the singles and doubles rankings, the NCAA D1 Singles and Doubles Champions, and the winners from last fall’s National Indoor Intercollegiates. UCLA junior Mackenzie McDonald was named the ITA National Men’s Player of the Year while Virginia’s Danielle Collins was named the ITA National Women’s Player of the Year. I have all the winners listed below and for the full release from the ITA which includes more information about the winners you can click here.Division IMackenzie McDonald, Jr., UCLADominik Koepfer, Sr., TulaneMikael Torpegaard, So., Ohio...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog
I wanted to start off by giving a congratulations to Texas Tech assistant James Wilson on landing his first heading coaching job at Utah State. Wilson, who had been an assistant for the last three years at his alma mater, replaced Clancy Shields who recently took the head coaching job at Arizona. I’m still showing there are 13 D1 men’s head coaching jobs open and another 16 on the women’s side. If anyone knows of another opening or one that’s been filled let me know.6 of the 15 US Open National Playoff Sectionals have been completed with all 6 men’s singles winners and 5 of the 6 women’s singles winners having college ties....
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