Coach: Chuck Willenborg, 9th Season 2009 Ranking: #11 2010 Ranking: #13 2011 Ranking: #13 2012 Ranking: #8 2013 Projected Ranking: D3AS #5, D3TG #6 Overview I’d like to start off by saying thank you to the Hopkins website for giving me ITA historical rankings, SO helpful . All schools should be doing that so I…
10. Can Wash U do it again? What these guys do every year is truly remarkable to me and 2012 was the icing on the cake. The 2013 Bears enter the season having been to 5 consecutive final 4s, however they haven’t been to a final since winning it in 2008. You’ve got three seniors…
Coach: Bob Hansen, 2nd Season Location: Middlebury, VT 2009 Ranking: T-5 2010 Ranking: 1 2011 Ranking: 9 2012 Ranking: 15 2013 Projected Ranking: 9 Overview: I’m sure I will get corrected on some of the minutia, but here’s a brief recent Middlebury history lesson. Middlebury has been a strong program for the past decade and a half. Coach Dave Schwarz arrived in…
Coach: Worth Richardson, 1st Season 2009 Ranking: #16 2010 Ranking: #9 2011 Ranking: #12 2012 Ranking: #13 2013 Prediction: D3ATS #23, D3Tg #26 Overview: Welcome to the team preview that I’m pretty sure neither myself nor my colleagues here at D3Tennis wanted to do (editor’s note: it’s true). This team has been an enigma for…
Coach: John Browning, 14th Season Location: Atlanta, GA 2009 Ranking: #3 2010 Ranking: #4 2011 Ranking: #2, National Runner-Up 2012 Ranking: #1, National Champions 2013 Projected Ranking: D3ATS #3, D3TG #4 Overview: I’d like to start this overview by congratulating Emory for their national championship last year. Being at nationals, you could tell this team…
Coach: David Bojalad, 6th Season Location: Whittier, CA 2009 Ranking: NR 2010 Ranking: NR 2011 Ranking: NR 2012 Ranking: 26 2013 Projected Ranking: D3West 28, D3TG 18 Overview: After years of being the SCIAC’s ugly second cousin, Whittier finally broke through last year with a couple victories that propelled them from inadequate to… mediocre. They showed signs of life in 2011…
Coach: Dan Greenberg, 4th Season Location: Williamstown, MA 2009 Ranking: 8 2010 Ranking: 11 2011 Ranking: 4 2012 Ranking: 3 2013 Projected Ranking: 1 Overview: In the early aughties, the Williams Purple Cows were the DIII tennis dynasty. They won national championships in 1999, 2001, and 2002 to go with finals appearances in 1998, 2003, and 2004. Since then, they haven’t been…
Coach: Conor Smith, 2nd Season Location: Brunswick, ME 2009 Ranking: 13 2010 Ranking: 15 2011 Ranking: 14 2012 Ranking: 7 2013 Projected Ranking: (I lost my rankings predictions, and I don’t want to put two teams as the same projected ranking, so bear with me) Overview: Bowdoin and Andy Murray have a lot in common. Both were overshadowed by the three dominant…
Coach: Mike Geanette, 19th Season Location: Thousand Oaks, CA 2009 Ranking: 26 2010 Ranking: 7 2011 Ranking: 20 2012 Ranking: 12 2013 Projected Ranking: D3West 16, D3TG 16 Overview: Oftentimes, the ranking progressions are enough to illustrate where a program is headed, but in this case, they don’t tell the whole story. For a long time, Cal Lu was really a middling sort of…
Coach: Roger Follmer, 12th Season Location: St. Louis, MO 2009 Ranking: 4 2010 Ranking: 6 2011 Ranking: 3 2012 Ranking: 4 2013 Projected Ranking: 7 Overview: Predictions of Wash U’s demise early in 2012 turned out to be severely overstated. After their losses to Cruz and Bowdoin, many (myself included) wondered whether they even deserved to be in the tournament. By…