Coach: Bob Hansen, 2nd Season Location: Middlebury, VT 2009 Ranking: T-5 2010 Ranking: 1 2011 Ranking: 9 2012 Ranking: 15 2013 Projected Ranking: 9 Overview: I’m sure I will get corrected on some of the minutia, but here’s a brief recent Middlebury history lesson. Middlebury has been a strong program for the past decade and a half. Coach Dave Schwarz arrived in…
Coach: Worth Richardson, 1st Season 2009 Ranking: #16 2010 Ranking: #9 2011 Ranking: #12 2012 Ranking: #13 2013 Prediction: D3ATS #23, D3Tg #26 Overview: Welcome to the team preview that I’m pretty sure neither myself nor my colleagues here at D3Tennis wanted to do (editor’s note: it’s true). This team has been an enigma for…
Coach: John Browning, 14th Season Location: Atlanta, GA 2009 Ranking: #3 2010 Ranking: #4 2011 Ranking: #2, National Runner-Up 2012 Ranking: #1, National Champions 2013 Projected Ranking: D3ATS #3, D3TG #4 Overview: I’d like to start this overview by congratulating Emory for their national championship last year. Being at nationals, you could tell this team…
Coach: David Bojalad, 6th Season Location: Whittier, CA 2009 Ranking: NR 2010 Ranking: NR 2011 Ranking: NR 2012 Ranking: 26 2013 Projected Ranking: D3West 28, D3TG 18 Overview: After years of being the SCIAC’s ugly second cousin, Whittier finally broke through last year with a couple victories that propelled them from inadequate to… mediocre. They showed signs of life in 2011…
Coach: Dan Greenberg, 4th Season Location: Williamstown, MA 2009 Ranking: 8 2010 Ranking: 11 2011 Ranking: 4 2012 Ranking: 3 2013 Projected Ranking: 1 Overview: In the early aughties, the Williams Purple Cows were the DIII tennis dynasty. They won national championships in 1999, 2001, and 2002 to go with finals appearances in 1998, 2003, and 2004. Since then, they haven’t been…
Coach: Conor Smith, 2nd Season Location: Brunswick, ME 2009 Ranking: 13 2010 Ranking: 15 2011 Ranking: 14 2012 Ranking: 7 2013 Projected Ranking: (I lost my rankings predictions, and I don’t want to put two teams as the same projected ranking, so bear with me) Overview: Bowdoin and Andy Murray have a lot in common. Both were overshadowed by the three dominant…