2015 Women’s Season Preview: #18 Trinity Bantams

  Trinity Quick Facts: Location: Hartford, CT Coach: Wendy Bartlett, 31st year! 2012 National/Regional Ranking: #21/#9 2013 National/Regional Ranking: #18/#6 2014 National/Regional Ranking: #17/#8 2015 Preseason National/Regional Ranking: #18/#9 Twitter handle: @LadyBantTennis   Intro: I’ve alluded in previous previews that Trinity will have a rebuilding year this year. As I’ve had a chance to look…

2015 Women’s Season Preview: #17 Skidmore Thoroughbreds

Skidmore Quick Facts: Location: Saratoga Springs, NY Coach: Curt Speerschneider, 10th year 2012 National/Regional Ranking: #16/#6 2013 National/Regional Ranking: #19/#7 2014 National/Regional Ranking: #16/#7 2015 Preseason National/Regional Ranking: #17/#8 Twitter handle: none that I know of?  If one exists, please put it in the comments below! Intro: Around 2010 was when Skidmore made a (re)surge…

2015 Women’s Season Preview: #16 Tufts JUMBOS

  Tufts Quick Facts: Location: Medford, MA Coach: Kate Bayard, 10th year 2012 National/Regional Ranking: #5/#3 2013 National/Regional Ranking: #17/#5 2014 National/Regional Ranking: #15/#6 2015 Preseason National/Regional Ranking: #16/#7 Twitter handle: @Jumbos_Tennis Intro: I have been looking forward to writing the Tufts Season Preview ever since the start of the season! My excitement stems from…

2015 Women’s Season Preview: #3 Amherst Jeffs

Amherst Quick Facts: Location: Amherst, MA Coach: The Legendary Jackie Bagwell, 24th year 2012 National/Regional Ranking: #4/#2 2013 National/Regional Ranking: #3/#2 2014 National/Regional Ranking: #2/#1 2015 Preseason National/Regional Ranking: #3/#2 Twitter handle: @awtishawt Intro: Amherst graduated the #1 ranked recruiting class of 2010, comprised primarily of Jordan Brewer, Gabby Devlin, Jen Newman, and Zoe Pangalos.…

2015 Women’s Season Preview: #13 Babson Beavers

Babson Quick Facts: Location: Babson Park, MA Coach: Jim Berrigan, 16th year 2012 National/Regional Ranking: NR/#18 2013 National/Regional Ranking: NR/NR 2014 National/Regional Ranking: NR/NR 2015 Preseason National/Regional Ranking: #13/#5 Twitter handle: Some updates on @JimBerrigan Intro: Here is my second NEWMAC team preview in a row!  This time it’s the Babosn Beavers!!  With some nifty…

2015 Women’s Season Preview: #14 MIT Engineers

  MIT Quick Facts: Location: Cambridge, MA Coach: Carol Matsuzaki, 17th year 2012 National/Regional Ranking: #30/#13 2013 National/Regional Ranking: #23/#8 2014 National/Regional Ranking: #13/#5 2015 Preseason National/Regional Ranking: #14/#6 Twitter handle: @MITWTennis Intro: The Engineers of MIT are definitely a team on the rise.  In my last preview I talked about teams staying in a range of…

2015 Women’s Season Preview: #6 Bowdoin Polar Bears

Bowdoin College Quick Facts: Location: Brunswick, ME Coach: Hobie Holbach, 8th year 2012 National/Regional Ranking:#9/#3 2013 National/Regional Ranking: #6/#4 2014 National/Regional Ranking: #6/#3 2015 Preseason National/Regional Ranking: #6/#3 Twitter handles: @BowdoinWTennis & @BowdoinTennis, but both hardly used Intro: This is my third preview of the year and as I do the research for each team,…

2015 Women’s Season Preview: #25 Brandeis Judges

    Brandeis University Quick Facts: Location: Waltham, MA Coach: Ben Lamanna, 8th year 2012 National/Regional Ranking: #22/#10 2013 National/Regional Ranking: #24/#9 2014 National/Regional Ranking: #23/#9 2015 Preseason National/Regional Ranking: #25/#11 Twitter handle: @BrandeisTennis Intro: For the past several years Brandeis has been in the 20-25 range of the national rankings. They are in the UAA…

2015 Women’s Season Preview: #10 Middlebury Panthers

Middlebury College Quick Facts: Location: Middlebury, VT Coach: Mike Morgan, 9th year 2012 National/Regional Ranking: #6/#4 2013 National/Regional Ranking: #5/#3 2014 National/Regional Ranking: #10/#4 2015 Preseason National/Regional Ranking: #10/#4 Twitter handle: @MiddWTennis Intro: Hello beautiful people!!!! I am very excited to do my very first team preview for the blog!! We will kick off the…

Women’s New England and Northeast ITA Recaps!!!

New England Recap I am seriously late with my review and am expecting a big cut in my salary, but following the format of my counterpart, @D3Northeast, I did a report card for each regionally ranked (from the spring) team in the New England and Northeast ITA regionals. Let’s start with the much stronger of…