The TCU men’s tennis team was honored with the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA) All-Academic Team Award Monday. In addition to the team milestone, three Horned Frogs were named ITA Scholar-Athletes for standout work in the classroom.
TCU received the ITA’s All-Academic Team Award for the second straight year, and only the second time in program history, [...]
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TCU Men, Women Receive ITA All-Academic Team Award; Now just need a coach
A&M’s Hoover upsets Quigley at US Open Pre-Qualifying; UT players having success
OK, so Colin Hoover is playing well. I could tell that when I was him in Arlington a few weeks ago. But honestly, you really never thought he was playing that well, did you?
Today at the Atlanta Tennis Championships, where the U.S.Open National Playoffs are being held, Colin Hoover, defeated University of Kentucky’s Eric Quigley, [...]
Pollock claims third pro doubles title
Former three-time Texas A&M men’s tennis All-American Conor Pollock (pronounced PAUL-luck) and his partner Cory Parr won the doubles title at the Linda Bogdan Memorial Futures Tournament held over the Fourth of July weekend at the Tennis Club of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.
Pollock, a native of San Antonio, who starred for the Aggies from 2006-09, [...]
Trinity Men, Vandy Women named ITA National Sportsmanship Award winners for May
The Trinity men’s and Vanderbilt women’s tennis teams have been honored as May’s recipients of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Team Sportsmanship Award, the ITA announced today.
The ITA National Team Sportsmanship Award is a monthly award that goes to one men’s and one women’s team that has exemplified outstanding sportsmanship, character and ethical [...]
Hilltopper Legend, Dan Dwyer, passes away
Former Hilltopper tennis great and St. Edward’s Athletics Hall of Fame member Dan Dwyer died Tuesday, May 25th in Oceanside, N.Y. He is survived by his daughter Kimberly, son Shawn, and two grandchildren.
Dwyer played for legendary head tennis coach Brother Emmett Strohmeyer at St. Edward’s in the late 1950s. In his senior season at St. [...]
Trinity’s Bobby Cocanougher and Cory Kowal fall in DIII final
Oberlin, Ohio – Trinity University Tigers juniors Bobby Cocanougher and Cory Kowal lost a tightly played 6-3, 6-4 decision Sunday to No. 2 seeds Brian Pybas and Marc Vartabedian of California-Santa Cruz in the NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championships doubles final.
Cocanougher, from Southlake, Texas (Carroll); and Kowal, from Austin, Texas (Anderson); had become the [...]
It’s been one week… one fans thoughts on last Friday
It’s been one week…
Yes, I am stealing from a Barenaked Ladies song, but I believe it is apropos. It was a week ago that a couple of Texas teams experienced what can be termed as Black Friday. Of course Baylor doesn’t feel that way, but please don’t interrupt my drama.
That song also came on my [...]
Trinity falls to Claremont in DIII Elite 8
The third-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags beat the No. 13 Trinity Tigers 5-2 Tuesday in the NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championship quarterfinals at Oberlin College.
Trinity, which had its 14-match winning streak snapped, completed the season with an 18-10 record. Claremont (22-4) meets the winner of Emory and Amherst in Wednesday’s semifinals.
The Tigers, led by first-year head [...]
No. 2 Tennessee too much for Bears
The second-seeded Tennessee Volunteers grinded out the doubles point, then took over on the singles courts as they defeated Baylor’s seventh-seeded men’s tennis team 4-0 in the NCAA Quarterfinals at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga., on Sunday.
“I thought Tennessee played a great match, they were well-prepared,” head coach Matt Knoll said. “It [...]
Oklahoma stuns #3 Texas
No. 3 Texas captured the doubles point, but No. 20 Oklahoma rallied to produce four singles wins, as the Sooners edged the Longhorns by a 4-2 count in a five-plus hour match in the NCAA Championships’ round of 16. Texas’ season comes to an end at 27-3.
The Longhorns and Sooners opened their lengthy match [...]
