By: The Hype Guy #5DoublesFTW and Top Dog Wannabe #heinrichmanuever In a surprise hit post from D3West yesterday, you all read about the 10 players you encounter in DIII Tennis. This article gained a lot of traction, made us go #VIRAL on some random topical site about tennis, and garnered 15 retweets from loyal followers.…
Coach: Chris Bizot, 12th Year Location: Tyler, Tx Blog Power Ranking:23 Twitter Handle: @patriotstennis (d3west edit: one of the best on the Twittersphere) Overview: Coach Bizot and the UTTyler Patriots have given us, here at the blog, a plethora of topics to discuss in regards to D3 tennis over the past few years. The usual…
Coach: Mike Napoli, 2nd season Location: Santa Cruz, CA Preseason Rank: #30 Twitter Handle: @Cruz_Tennis (pretty good) Overview: I’ve made no secret of my predilection for the Slugs. Ever since the departure of Bob Hansen, the name of the head coach has shifted as frequently as the tide off West Cliff thanks to the poor institutional support of its…
Coach: Jeff Northam, 89th season Location: Walla Walla, WA Preseason Rank: 17 Twitter Handle: @whitmantennis Overview: Whitman is another team in the West region that is undergoing an upheaval this season. After clambering in the dregs for several seasons, the Squirrels have established themselves as a perennial top 20 team starting in 2012. Nevertheless, they haven’t beaten a top…
Here comes another stellar article from the Texas Fanatic, his first season preview. As long as he keeps writing these fantastic articles, I will keep pawning my work off on him. Soon we’ll get him his own log-in. I honestly have nothing to add, and I feel his analysis is spot on. Coach: Russell McMindes,…
All great things must come to an end. And that means the Team Recaps will soon be over for our 2016 Fantasy Draft. Below, we will be previewing the final two teams, managed by Dante Quazzo and D3TennisGreek, two non-bloggers who got the opportunity to join us. I was very impressed with both of these…
So, I took the weekend off and decided not to post any of the team recaps or anything I promised, which I guess you should be kind of used to by now. Sorry, was spending time with some important peeps and trying to plan out what happy hour I was going to meet D3Central at…
Coach: Steve Bickham, 3rd year Location: Claremont, CA Preseason Ranking: 5 Twitter Handle: @defendthecoop, @sagehentennis? Overview: In the past, I’ve been effusive with my praise of the 2015 Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, and I welcome one last opportunity to fawn. They posted 19 wins over ranked teams, 10 by a 5-4 margin to go with a couple more comfortable 6-3…
Did you think we would let you forget about the 2016 Fantasy Draft so quickly? Absolutely not. We are taking a pause from our Season Previews to give you the Team Recaps for all of the 10 Fantasy teams drafted by our participants. If you’ve forgotten what the hell happened, click that thing on the…
Coach: Geoff Roche, 18th season Location: Redlands, CA Preseason Ranking: 15 Power Ranking: 20 Twitter Handle: @UofRMTennis for all of your sporadic coverage needs Intro: As much as I’ve beaten the whole Lipscomb/Cummins thing to death over the past couple years, Redlands tennis has pretty much been defined by those two players for the past four…