ASouth Stream of Consciousness – ARIANA GRANDE EDITION

ASouth Stream of Consciousness – ARIANA GRANDE EDITION Well, my loyal readers. I’m on a plane to sunny California right now, which equates to a 6.5 hour flight in coach seating and nothing much to do because WE DON’T HAVE FREE WIFI YET. Given my predicament, I am figuring that there’s not much else to…

Players of the Week: 03/04/19 – 03/10/19

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 03/4/19-03/10/19 It’s the start of many spring break weeks so we’re taking you to some place better than Florida and California put together…BlogLand! Congrats to this week’s winners and look out for a ton of content this week as we have a bunch of teams on spring break leading up…

Amherst Spring Break Precap

#7 Amherst spring break precap I’m taking a page out of D3AS’ playbook here as I have three major spring breaks to cover this week. Wesleyan, Amherst and Bowdoin have all taken a trip to warmer weather, and all three teams are playing a crazy amount of matches in a short amount of time. Over…

Wesleyan Spring Break Precap

#9 Wesleyan spring break precap I’m taking a page out of D3AS’ playbook here as I have three major spring breaks to cover this week. Wesleyan, Amherst and Bowdoin have all taken a trip to warmer weather, and all three teams are playing a crazy amount of matches in a short amount of time. Over…

This Week (and kind of next) in the Central: March 8-15, 2019 – A 5000′ View

This Week (and kind of next) in the Central: March 8-15, 2019 – A Five Thousand Foot View It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of UTR, it was the age of TRN, it was the epoch of ON IT, it was the epoch of post-match…

Season “Pre”view: #35 Oberlin College Yeomen

Location: Oberlin, OH Coach: Eric Ishida ITA National Ranking: #35 (2.28.19 Rankings) ITA Regional Ranking: #9 (1.17.19 Rankings) Blog Power Ranking: #42 (barely) Twitter Handle: @Yeo_MTEN UTR Power 6: 60 Oberlin 2018 Spring Season & 2019 thus far tl;dr:  Oberlin ended the 2018 season 11-10, secured a win over a nationally ranked team, and finished…

2019 Early Season Hot Takes: 5 Pool C spots is sufficient

NewRegional’s HOT TAKE: 5 Pool C spots is sufficient NewRegional DEFENSE: An important lesson I’ve learned from AS since entering the blogosphere is that every team can come up with excuses about why their team didn’t win a close match, or why they should have been better. But, the best teams work harder, are better,…

2019 Early Season Hot Takes: UAA > NESCAC

D3AS’ HOT TAKE: The UAA is the best conference this year, that ever was, and ever will be. D3AS DEFENSE: Sure, it’s early, but the UAA now has 6 top 15 teams (on the Men’s side) and we’re in early March. It has long been assumed that the NESCAC is the better conference, but I…

POTW: 02/25/19-03/03/19

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 02/25/19-03/03/19 What could be better than Power Rankings on a Monday? Power Rankings and POTW on a Monday! Well, Monday on the West Coast at least. There has been much discussion about food in the blogger group chat of late, so today we’ve included our bloggers’ favorite tennis trip eatery…

2019 Women’s ITA Indoors Recap + Team Grades

After a weekend of thrilling matches (and some not-so-thrilling matches), the gang is back together to bring you a 2019 ITA D3 Women’s Indoors Recap, in which we will go school by school and talk about their performances this weekend. As you’ll see below, here on the women’s side of Division3Tennis.com we believe in grade…