Welcome everyone to the newest addition of Van Zee’s Vault. My How to Build a Winning Program series is now complete and I will be hitting on random topics throughout the rest of the year. This week’s topic was a suggestion by one of our commenters so I am all for giving the people what…
We finally have tennis to play! Tomorrow is the first D3 vs D3 action. The Chicago vs Coe match-up looks to be pretty awesome because how many teams can boast a roster to have 14 singles matches. Pretty cool stuff. I will be watching some regional action as Wabash opens up their season against Augustana…
It’s Thursday and time for another edition of Van Zee’s Vault. I haven’t decided if this is my last post for the How to Build a Winning Program Series or if there will be one more. I expect that I will likely do one more to wrap it all up, but either way, today’s topic…
I would like to welcome you all back for the 5th installment of the How to Build a Winning Program series. The more and more that I write these, the more I realize I miss being a coach. But because I live by the 50 cent model of “Get Rich or Die Tryin'” I find…
It’s January and we all know what that means. Teams will be coming back from Winter break ready to hit the courts for their first practices of the year. National Indoors is just six short weeks away! In this next segment of the How to build a winning program series, I will address how a…
Welcome to the third edition of the How to build a winning program series. Last week we covered scheduling and I enjoy reading the previews of the other bloggers referencing whether or not each coach has done a good job. This week I am going to discuss the importance of setting a lineup. The focus…
Before I get into the second installment of Van Zee’s vault series “How to build a winning program,” I wanted to share my word of thanks for all the positive reactions that the recruiting segment got from fellow coaches. The whole point of this series is to share ideas with coaches to help them in…
This is the first installment of Van Zee’s Vault. I was able to nix the Central’s Corner title and go with a more personal message. As promised, the first handful of articles will be on my own thoughts as to “How to build a winning program” and there isn’t a better topic to start off…
Well it seems it is that time of year again where the blog begins to ramp up. We already have FIVE season previews out this week with many more coming as the days pass. I somehow have convinced the powers that be to let me skip doing any previews at all this season which is…
I am not sure if I even remember how to do this now that it has been so long since my last post. But I have a few extra minutes and thought I would give some quick reactions to the Kalamazoo regional ITA draw. While my focus this season is going to be national with…