I have them broken down by team, player, winning percentage, Universal Tennis Rating, ITA Ranking, country, and then broken down by individual position. It’ll probably be easier to view them on the google doc at this link.
Here are some highlights from what I found:
# of girls with an ITA ranking: 47
High UTR: 12.32 – Hayley Carter (North Carolina)
Top Winning % (min 10 dual-matches): 1.00 – Karla Popovic (Cal), Sandy Niehaus (Ohio State)
Most Wins: 27 – Hayley Carter (North Carolina)
Countries With 3 Or More Players: USA 65, Australia 6, Spain/Canada 4, Great Britain/Croatia 3
#1 Singles
Top Winning %: .96 – Hayley Carter (North Carolina)
Top UTR: 12.32 – Hayley Carter (North Carolina)
Top ITA: 1 – Hayley Carter (North Carolina)
#2 Singles
Top Winning %: .96 – Sinead Lohan (Miami)
Top UTR: 11.85 – Frances Altick (Vanderbilt)
Top ITA: 8 – Sinead Lohan (Miami)
#3 Singles
Top Winning %: .96 – Jessica Aney (North Carolina)
Top UTR: 11.56 – Jessica Aney (North Carolina)
Top ITA: 32 – Astra Sharma (Vanderbilt)
#4 Singles
Top Winning %: .95 – Krista Hardebeck (Stanford)
Top UTR: 11.54 – Caroline Brinson (Georgia)
Top ITA: 30 – Caroline Brinson (Georgia)
#5 Singles
Top Winning %: .92 – Ferny Angeles Paz (Ohio State)
Top UTR: 11.48 – Josie Kuhlman (Florida)
Top ITA: None ranked
#6 Singles
Top Winning %: 1.00 – Karla Popovic (Cal), Sandy Niehaus (Ohio State)
Top UTR: 11.45 – Anna Danilina (Florida)
Top ITA: 81 – Sandy Niehaus (Ohio State)
#7 Singles
Top Winning %: .92 – Spencer Liang (Florida)
Top UTR: 10.74 – Spencer Liang (Florida)
Top ITA: #113 – Olivia Sneed (Ohio State)
Round of 16 Matches – Tulsa, OK – Thursday
[3] North Carolina vs. [14] Virginia – 10am ET
[6] Vanderbilt vs. [11] Auburn – 10am ET
[7] Miami vs. [10] Michigan – 1pm ET
[2] Florida vs. [15] Stanford – 1pm ET
[1] California vs. [16] Texas Tech – 5pm ET
[8] Pepperdine vs. [17-32] Texas – 5pm ET
[5] Georgia vs. [12] Oklahoma State – 8pm ET
[4] Ohio State vs. [17-32] Georgia Tech – 8pm ET
Interesting that the blog post has this stat: "Countries With 3 Or More Players: USA 65, Australia 6, Spain/Canada 4, Great Britain/Croatia 3" and the comments are immediately turned into a whining session about 2-3 of the 16 teams that are the exception.
Well that's weird because I just looked at an old article from a tennis recruiting archive on Nov.11,2010 and he mentioned: " He was recruited by Nebraska, Oklahoma, as well as Florida State, UCLA, Washington, Alabama, and Penn State and these were the schools that were interested in me and I was interested in them ! <br />Anyways, glad it worked out for him at Texas A & M as he got hurt last year and had to sit out and was able to finish in style this year !
Not what his dad said.
Foreign players are great for the College game. <br />US juniors are sick of playing the same kids all the time.<br />Foreign players create a higher quality of tennis by playing.<br />It's great for US players to be able to play with kids from different environments, cultures and places on the globe. <br />I've heard the great coach, Greg Patton from Boise State say foreign players are often hungrier and easier to coach.<br />Who cares who has foreign players? Sometimes that's the only good kids a coach can find. Sometimes a coach has a great connection to a particular part of the world. <br />I am all for kids playing in he NCAA from other countries.
Get your facts straight ! Jackson was recruited by Nebraska and turned down a scholarship offer!He preferred to go to Texas A&M and that was his choice!
I'm not sure a team that has nothing but foreign players suggests the team mission is simply winning at all costs. <br />Programs that send the team to Hawaii as a recruiting tool or have mega facilities, trainers, racquets, etc – that suggests winning at all costs. If a University has and wants to spend millions on a tennis program that's fine, their perogative mission. You just have to credit the programs that have success on one fifth the budget of other programs.<br /><br />I think it's just as cool that Miami has all foreign players as Virginia has all American players. Especially when our country has so many diplomatic missions of so many different types.
Nebraska men's team one year had five German guys on the team and didn't even recruit Jackson Withrow who lived in Nebraska. Tennis is a fringe sport and some ADs don't give a rat's arse.<br /><br />It seems like the women are consistently lower in the UTR rankings than the men. It's not like some of the women college players don't have success in pros either. It seems low to me.<br /><br />Can anyone explain how The Ohio State women went from bottom of the big ten to top eschelon (sp sorry) of NCAA in almost two years? Bobby?
The only thing foreign in Stillwater is that at least the girls had one US player in the starting 6. Miami has no Americans…all the talent in Florida and they can't bring in one player from the US… Unbelievable. Pepperdine… I can see how hard it is for them to find talent in So Cal, being on the cliffs of Malibu.
It seems Pepperdine and Miami are starting only foreign athletes. Auburn and Oklahoma State start five. I like the idea of having other counries represented in domestic college <br /><br />sports as it helps diversify a campus. However when a team starts more than 3, one has to believe diversification is not the goal. It instead suggests winning at any cost is more important.