Central Rules Everything Around Me: March 6th – 8th Weekend feat. Spring Breaks (maybe)

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…

Central Region Preview Palooza

  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…

Central Region Preview: Central Team Six

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…

Central Individuals Outlook + newCentral’s Frankenstein D3 Singles Player

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…

So, me and the rackets was talkin’ and here’s the rundown on the Central Act 1*

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.…

Fast Times at Central High: ITA Progress Reports

I’ll limit my “tardy” article to a discussion of the nationally ranked central teams and give them progress reports based on a similarly ineffable rubric that created my upset percentages. But first, let us start with the champs and allow Mr. Hillis to reintroduce himself to the d3 tennis world, man Amherst is gonna miss this…

Women’s Season Opener Hot Takes!!

What’s up tennis fans! After a long summer hiatus, your favorite women’s writers are back in action, and with an expanded squad! This season’s lineup features FOUR talented (and tennis obsessed) writers: returners ASW and Central (formerly known as NEW) are joined by newcomers West and new NEW (formerly known as Nameless)! To kickoff this…

The Central ‘Sitch

I was grocery shopping the other day and someone’s textone was the Kim Possible “whats the ‘sitch” tone and it stuck with me all day leading to this intro. The central region’s top ten is an amalgamation of teams poised for long postseason runs, teams enjoying the R&R of offseason, and some teams still vying…

2015 Women’s Season Preview: #23 Case Western

#23 Case Western Reserve University Location: Cleveland, OH Coach: Kirsten Gambrell(2nd yr.) 2011-12: UR/#7 Reg. 2012-13: #25 Nat./#4 Reg. 2013-14: #22 Nat./#4 Reg. 2014-15: Preseason :#23 Nat./#4 Reg. Twitter Handle: @casetennis1 Intro: Happy New Year to everyone! To kick off the new year D3 Central Women is proud to start with one of the fastest…