The Guru’s 20 Fast Facts About Indoors

Each of the regional writers will give you in-depth match by match analysis over the coming days and I’m totally pumped for Indoors Draft Kings, but I wanted to kick off Indoors week with a “fast facts” article. I looked at all Indoors results over the past eight seasons (2008-2015) and recorded 20 interesting things…

The Guru’s Top 20 Teams of the Past Five Years

As the blog historian, I wanted to come in with my version of a season kickoff article. This will review the top 20 teams of the past five years as determined by average finish between the 2011 and 2015 seasons. There is one exception to this which I will explain below. I will also take…

2016 Women’s Preview: #7 Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens

Pomona Pitzer Sagehens   Twitter Handle: @sagehenwtennis   Fall 2014 Ranking: #9 Spring 2015 Ranking: #7 Fall 2015 Ranking: #7   Player Ranking (National/Regional): Joy Kim: #6/#1 Maryanne Zhao: #26/#8 Lea Lynn Yen: #40/#10 Caroline Casper: NR/#15 Shivani Doraiswami: NR/#18 Emily Chen/Zhao: NR/#4 Casper/Yen: NR/#8 Hi Tennis Fans!! I’m back with another preview. Time to…

2016 Season Preview: #5 Pomona-Pitzer

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…

Freshmen to Watch via TennisRecruiting.net

Hello again, boys and girls! On the heels of a very successful Fantasy Draft (rules can be found here), some writers here at The Blog have written an article with TennisRecruiting.net in order to bring you our “2016 Frosh to Watch.” As you will see if you follow the link below, D3NEWomens, D3WestWomens, and I (D3NE) have collected at least three…

The 2016 Fantasy Draft – Full Draft Results

Well, well, well.  The team and 3 others got together for the Fantasy Draft I was telling you about earlier, and we absolutely killed it.  It’s tough to get 10 working dudes in the same google doc at the same time to draft Division III Tennis players for hypothetical teams, but we did it.  I…

ITA West Women’s Regional Recap – Part TWO!!!

Now Part 2!! I decided to split this up simply because of how I wrote the first part of this article, as well as the timing of the events being so spread out. Congrats to our champs: Joy Kim (Pomona) and Caroline Ward/Katie Kuosman (CMS)   HOW IT HAPPENED:     Well…….Pomona……..kind of took over….…

2016 Inaugural Men’s Power Rankings

Yo yo yo.  It’s been a slow week for us at the blog but we’re back with some Power Rankings to freshen up your early Tuesday morning (Monday Night for you westerners).  Now that we have D3ASW on our team as he dual-wields the Men’s and Women’s sides with gusto, we’ve added another column to…

Reloading: The ITA West Regional Reportcard

As I stated in my preview, graduation hit California DIII tennis like Kam on Megatron, which left several of my favorite teams with a lot of questions entering the 2015-2016 season. This weekend went a long way towards answering many of those questions, but it also brought up a whole new batch of quandaries. Let’s…

All eyes on the Western Front – WEST ITA REGIONAL PREVIEW!!

Hey Y’all! I am back (finally) with a Preview of everything there is to know about the final ITA Regional Championship for the Fall season, from the West! It’s so preeeettttyyyyyyyy………   Ok, enough staring……We have quite the stacked field this year with many consistent forces and some new faces that I really do not…