Central Rules Everything Around Me: March 6th – 8th Weekend feat. Spring Breaks (maybe) Recently it seems like the C in C.R.E.A.M. has changed to covid-19 in the past week. @d3west, The Blog’s Number One Resident gives his take in a succinct two tweet thread here. We’re not sure if Case, Kenyon, and Wash U…
OOF – This preview got away from me and became longer than I had anticipated. So, pardon me for the longform here, but I think that this will make for some nice morning commute reading or pleasant I’m at work but I’m not ready to work reading. I tried uploading this earlier with my…
It’s been a minute since my last article on the Central Region 5s and I’m sorry that the 4s have had to wait so long (however, now the 1-4s know how the 5s and 6s feel waiting for them to finish their matches). Since I’m behind – and it sounds like people really miss the…
Central Region Preview: Central Team Six (Singles) Do lineup positions have stereotypes? Are there characteristics unique to great Sixes? What is the revolving door? I hope to touch on these questions in my first season preview. As you can probably tell these are neither my favorite nor my forte (seeing as this is late for my self-prescribed…
Friday. October 4, 2019. Central ITA Rules Everything Around Me: Panic! At the Zoo (Issue 3) Good Morning to all of the half-awake student-athletes on the bus headed to Day 1 at the Zoo!! If you’re up and reading this at publishing… you should probably get to bed if you want to do…
And then there were two…with Chicago losing in the Final Four, the Central Region (and I) are officially out of the team postseason; however, the Central lives on in this 2018-19 season with ten Individuals singles representatives: Vithoontien, Chen, Kerrigan, Yuan, Whaling, Yi, Zalesnki, Diehl, Hillis, and Neves. The draws have not been posted at…
Hey y’all! We’re back at it following NEW’s Midd-Herst preview with your second match-by-match look into the quarterfinals! This one features top seed and lone west region team remaining CMS against the CMU Tartans. I’m really hoping the Athenas win this one because otherwise I can’t blog again until Individuals. ASW is really pulling for…
So, me and the rackets was talkin’ and here’s the rundown on the central region’s top 10 per the ITAs last regional rankings. I intend on giving a snapshot of each team’s season thus far and some predictions going forward. It’s been a minute since I’ve written something substantial but never forget: Central. Rules. Everything.…
RE: This Weekend in the CENTRAL REGION: March 1-3, 2019 #1 U Chicago: idle #8 Wash U: idle #12 GAC: March 2: vs. St. Olaf & Hamline #13 Kenyon idle #14 Case Western: idle #24 Kalamazoo: March 3: vs. #25 Denison #25 Denison: March 2: vs. Hope, March 3 vs. #24 Kalamazoo #35…
It makes sense that a streaky player would be a streaky blogger – that’s science, right? This season I will be preparing season previews for the eight nationally ranked teams in the central: Chicago, Wash U, Kenyon, Case, Kalamazoo, Denison, GAC, and Oberlin. All eight will drop this month and I’ll begin with the… Kalamazoo…
