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Two more head coaching positions were filled today with Central Florida announcing that Bryan Koniecko had accepted the women’s head coach position while Colorado State promoted assistant coach Jarod Camerota to head coach.

Koniecko, who was a five-time All-American at Ohio State from 2006 to 2009, had been the men’s head coach at Brown for the last two years after being the assistant women’s coach at Ohio State the two years prior. Koniecko replaces Stephanie Nickitas who announced her retirement back in April after going 105-80 over the last 9 seasons.

Camerota got promoted in Fort Collins after serving as Jon Messick’s assistant last season. Camerota was a head coach on three different occasions spending time at Jacksonville, Georgia State, and Mars Hill from 2005 to 2012. Messick retired after spending the last 31 seasons as head coach at Colorado State

Ole Miss head coach Toby Hansson announced that 2009 NCAA men’s singles champion Devin Britton had been promoted from volunteer coach to assistant men’s coach. Britton replaces Taylor Vaughn who had been the assistant for the last two seasons.

Alabama head coach George Husack announced that he has signed three players that’ll be joining the team for the 2016-17 season – France’s Thibault Cancel (UTR 14.03), Russia’s Alexey Nesterov (12.94), and Morehead State transfer Ritchie Kruunenberg (UTR 12.21). Morehead State was one of three schools in the Ohio Valley Conference that announced they’d be dropping tennis after this past season.

Recent LSU graduate Andrew Korinek picked up his first ATP point with a 6-1, 6-2 win over recent St. Francis graduate Washi Gervais at the Saskatoon, Canada, F5 Futures.

2010 UCLA graduate Matt Brooklyn picked up his first ATP point with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 upset over Illinois’s Aleks Vukic at the same event in Saskatoon. Brooklyn played a few pro events after graduating then went into coaching serving as an assistant at Georgetown from 2011 to 2013 and then at San Diego from 2013 to 2015. Brooklyn played No. 1 singles at Arizona State up until they dropped the program in 2008.