This is my season preview and the 2nd Annual Top 20 Teams of the Past Five Years. For those who want to reference last year’s article, the link is here: http://www.division3tennis.com/7148-2/ The rules of this are pretty simple. You need to be ranked in all five of the seasons examined and you need to have…
Location: New York, NY Coach: Horace Choy, 10th season ITA National Ranking: NR ITA Regional Ranking: 17 Blog Power Ranking: NR Twitter Handle: @NYUtennis, sometimes good updates, sometimes nothing until after the match. Realistic Best Case Scenario: A couple wins over nationally ranked teams and a sixth place UAA finish, losing a tough one to…
Happy Hump Day, boys and girls. I know our previews have been a bit NE heavy recently, but that’s simply because some of them don’t start until later in the year. The NESCAC exception to that rule is the Bates Bobcats, who start their season in February due to their early “spring” break. Bates has been…
Colby College Coach: Jason Cohen (2nd season) Location: Waterville, ME ITA Ranking: UR nationally, #14 NE Blog Power Ranking: UR…but ranked #39-40 by several bloggers including ASouth, NE, West, RegNEC, and yours truly Power 6 Rating: 65 Twitter Handle: @ColbyCoachCohen, excellent updates Twitter Hashtag: Scrolled back all the way to September on their Twitter, not…
Happy weekend, boys and girls! We’ll be mixing in Fantasy Draft recaps with 2017 Season Previews over the next couple weeks, and I’m here to bring you a closer look at the 2017 Tufts Jumbos. With a couple of MAJOR upsets over Amherst and Bowdoin last spring, Tufts shot up the rankings and ended the year…
Location: Troy, NY Coach: Jonathan Satkowski, 7th season ITA National Ranking: NR ITA Regional Ranking: 15 Blog Power Ranking: 28 Twitter Handle: @RPIMensTennis, made it’s debut this fall and was pretty solid with updates. Realistic Best Case Scenario: Liberty League Champions and the school’s first men’s tennis NCAA appearance! If they beat Skidmore, I could…
Location: Hoboken, NJ Coach: Steve Gachko (12th season) ITA National Ranking: 22 ITA Regional Ranking: 9 (Northeast) Blog Power Ranking: 36 Twitter Handle: @Ducks_Tennis Hello all, another day another preview! I will be the first to admit that I was probably a little harsh on the Ducks in my kickoff article, however they let the rackets do the talking and…
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts Coach: Todd Doebler, 3rd season at Amherst ITA National Ranking: 15th ITA Regional Ranking: 6th Blog Power Ranking: 6th Twitter Handle: @AmherstMTennis. Good before and after matches, not the best for in-match updates. Overview: Happy Friday, boys and girls! This is my 3rd preview of the season, so does that mean I will be taking my 3rd…
Location: Middlebury, Vermont Coach: Bob Hansen, 6th season at Midd (2nd 29th season…) ITA National Ranking: 3 ITA Regional Ranking: 2 Blog Power Ranking: 5 Twitter Handle: @middtennis. Very reliable updates, solid hashtags and occasional arrogant snark. Overview: For a brief moment, the rest of DIII was trembling. A top-4 of Farrell, Cuba, de Quant, and Derbani? Print the shirts! But…
Trinity College (CT) Coach: Lori Shulman (3rd season) Location: Hartford, CT ITA Ranking: #29 Blog Power Ranking: #40 Power 6 Rating: 64 Twitter Handle: @BantamTennis – last update was in May 2012…Ned Mandel and Anson McCook named to 2012 all-NESCAC team!!! Overview: Since longtime coach Paul Assaiante stopped coaching Trinity tennis 3 years ago…
