Oh DIII tennis, why can’t I quit you!? I keep trying to pretend each article is my last, but it’s not even worth pretending anymore. Last year, Whitman hosted a major DIII tennis weekend for the first time since Coach Northam created DIII National Indoors, and it was a blast. Though CMS pretty much stole the…
Apparently, we’re having trouble getting all the previews out, so The Headmaster has talked me out of retirement once more for this preview, making me the Roger Clemens of DIII tennis blogging. I haven’t exactly hid this fact from readers before, but Whitman is one of my favorite teams in the West. They’re like the Kenyon of…
California Lutheran University Location: Thousand Oaks, CA Coach: Mike Gennette (20th season) Preseason Ranking: 20 Overview: I know you guys missed me, so I’m gonna use some of my precious, precious free time to preview the Kingsmen. After being defined by Ballou and (to a lesser extent) Giuffrida for the better part of a decade, year 1 AB…
The Main Event Trinity (TX) It’s difficult to analyze this tournament for the Tigers because they always dominate it so thoroughly. We’ll start with singles: Trinity did predictably well here. Their three top dogs – Deuel, Skinner, and Krull – cruised into the semifinals, with the solid play of Skinner being particularly encouraging after a…
Well, it’s late on a Friday night, and I have an early morning tomorrow, but the Southwest ITA deserves some coverage, so I’m gonna do my best. Coach Bizot did a great job to get the draws out as early as he did, all things considered, but this still might not be my best quality…
Whitman “Whitman freshman.” Get used to seeing those two words next to each other, both in the rest of this post and for the rest of this season. That might not be a great thing against the rest of the nation, but youth certainly served Whitman this weekend. The top-seeded Whitman freshman, Chase Friedman, had…
Traditionally, the ITA Northwest region has been great for determining who could beat Whitman in the event of a Walla Walla ebola outbreak, but some NWC teams aren’t quite as willing to get nutted by the Squirrels this year. (Boom. Thrown shade, topical humor, testicle joke, and intrigue all in the first sentence). Anyways, buckle…
Well, it looks like the blog is up and running for the year, and since I can’t get in touch with the new guy, I’m just gonna go ahead and do the 5 burning questions for the West region. I know you all missed my snark ever-so much, so I’ll try to give you all the…
Well, the season is over, and what a season it was. It had everything. It had 5-4 matches galore, the birth of team hashtags, great comment debates, many great tennis teams, and, most importantly, tasteful shit talking. Ultimately, the racquets did the talking, and, though Amherst walked away the champion, the West region will finish…
Wow, what a day of DIII tennis. Amherst really played a phenomenal match, and those seniors will leave the program with a pair of national championships. Joey Fritz might as well just march his way into the DIII tennis hall of fame with impeccable posture and his racquet gripped firmly in his right hand after…