by Bobby Knight | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog
Drake Associate Athletic Director Brian Brown announced the hiring of Mai-Ly Tran as the Bulldogs new women’s coach. Tran, who played at Cal State Fullerton from 2004 to 2007, comes to Des Moines after serving as an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton for the last three seasons. John Hollimon was the interim coach last season and led Drake to a 15-12 record and a semifinal appearance at the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.Mai-Ly Tran has been named head @DrakeWTEN coach. #DURiseUphttps://t.co/zCyhy9Yor5pic.twitter.com/Gx8ieScKjg— Drake Athletics (@DUBulldogs) July 28, 2016 Kentucky women’s head coach Carlos Drada announced the hiring...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 27, 2016 | Blog
Norfolk State Athletics Director Marty Miller announced the hiring of Darryl Cummings as the Spartans new men’s and women’s head coach. Cummings was most recently the men’s and women’s coach at D3’s Virginia Wesleyan during the 2014 and 2015 seasons but he’s most known for his 20 years at Old Dominion from 1992-2011. Cummings replaces Worth Richardson who stepped down after two seasons to take a position at the Smith Stearns Tennis Academy.A big welcome to new #NSU tennis head coach Darryl Cummings!! ?https://t.co/Hgjj44UJYqpic.twitter.com/0jcYTrBBJl— NSU Athletics (@NSUSpartans) July 27, 2016 Georgia Tech rising...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog
As we head into August the coaching carousel should start slowing down with the beginning of the fall semester just around the corner. Two more women’s positions were filled in the last few days which leaves the number of openings on the women’s side in the single digits. Bowling Green State Director of Athletics Bob Moosbrugger announced the hiring of Stephanie Damacio as the Falcons new women’s head coach. Damacio, a 2011 Wichita State graduate, had been the assistant coach at BGSU for the last two seasons with the squad going 2-36 (.053) in that time frame. Damacio replaced Olga Elkin who departed for Nebraska-Omaha after a rocky two...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog
The ITA Summer Circuit finished up its fifth of six weeks with nine different sites hosting regionals. Below are the singles winners and you can view the doubles winners through each draw link. Here are the series points race through the fourth week. Wake Forest commit Sean Hill will take over the top spot in the men’s race after a semifinal showing at the Azusa Pacific regional.Azusa Pacific – Draw Size W-54 ; M-64 M – [6] Josh Ortlip (Cal Poly) d. [5] Robert Baylon (HS Class of ’18) W – Seira Shimizu (HS Class of ’17) d. [8] Margo Pletcher (Utah) 7-5, 6-2Florida – Draw Size W-49 ;...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 24, 2016 | Blog
Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11) won his 11th career pro singles title with a straight set win over Facundo Mena in the finals of the $25K USA F24 Futures in Godfrey, Illinois. The match started just after 10 a.m. central with temperatures already approaching 90 degrees and the heat index just short of 100. Sandgren dominated the opening set winning 29 of 41 points in route to taking a 6-0 set in 31 minutes. More than 5 of those minutes came when Sandgren took a medical timeout, after going up 3-0, due to a blister ripping open on his right hand during the opening game of the match. The opening game tied for the longest game of the match with Sandgren...
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