What would be an average ranking for playing Divison 1 college tennis

[knasty131]

Well if this doesn't kill your dreams, then I dont know what does. When Baylor won it's "national" title, not one single person who played was American. Good luck buddy, beat the odds. It's all about the foreigners

[Richard Pur]

A D-I college tennis player might show up on the Norcal or Texas Men's 4.0 team. : )

[SATennis]

Although I know it must be tough for local American players to get scholarships on D-1 teams, I am all about bringing the foreigners to the States. That's what makes D1 college tennis so competitive. And they do have rules about players ages and playing pro before college. Of course, always ways around those rules, but if foreigners weren't in D1 tennis, the standard would be levels below. I would blame title 9 instead of blaming the foreigners.

[SATennis]

Originally Posted by tennisboy87

Hey SATennis,

Are you still an assistant at UMKC? I play at Saint Louis University, and we played UMKC last year and are traveling to Kansas City this year to play them. I was just curious if you are still there or were there last year?

I was the assistant last year, but no longer officially working with the team.

[SATennis]

Originally Posted by tamdoankc

I walked onto the UMKC team in '95-'96. That's when they still offered tennis scholarships and actively recruited. The team had a lot of foreigners but no one local to KC, a couple of Americans. Solid players from 1-6. Anyone could've played any position. I would've been 7 but saw it was impossible to balance school and sports and work so had to drop tennis. All the scholarship players were at least 5.5 if not 6.0s. One of the guys was a top ranked Austrian junior and another was from Japan.

KC actually has a lot of elite juniors that end up playing for a top end D1 school. A couple of private highschools (Rockhurst, Pembroke, etc.) are packed full of awsome players. Not sure about now though. If it's Casey Smith you guys are talking about, I think he went to Rockhurst.

UMKC still offers scholarships and more than half the team is foreign. They have just had a problem with head coaches. It is a part-time position which means they do not get the pick of the crop, and they cannot build a program with part time coaches. The top players are decent, and they should do pretty well this year at conference, if the coach remembers to drive them there. But I don't think UMKC has ever been at top competitive D1 school.

[Pusher]

Originally Posted by SATennis

Although I know it must be tough for local American players to get scholarships on D-1 teams, I am all about bringing the foreigners to the States. That's what makes D1 college tennis so competitive. And they do have rules about players ages and playing pro before college. Of course, always ways around those rules, but if foreigners weren't in D1 tennis, the standard would be levels below. I would blame title 9 instead of blaming the foreigners.

Tennis scholarships for non-americans is a great opportunity for many. It is not so great an opportunity for americans. The system has been abused by college coaches and I blame them and the NCAA. Its no wonder that college tennis programs are being cut back or cut out altogether. It's not about the competetion-its all about winning at any price.

[Tennis_Gnat]

Well, a good ranking would have to be a solid national ranking. A sectional gets you to some smaller D1 colleges, (I had a 130 sectional and could've got a scholarship at a small D1). But I essentially couldn't play at a good D1 unless I had a national. I might've been good enough, but they won't look at you without a national. So I'm at a really good DIII college now LOVE it.

[tennis life]

Do you think Liberty University or Radford University would offer me a scholarship if my sectional ranking was say around 90 to 100???Im from virginia and my grades arent exactly UVA material and these seem like nice schools

[smittysan89]

I'm attending DePaul University next year, unfortunately for me (I guess?), they are D1 and play in the Big East. Although they are around 70th in the D1 rankings, the quality of talent is still very high. Currently they only have two americans on the whole team. They just recruited three more incoming freshman who will graduate this year along with me. Two are four star and one is a three star recruit.

I was planning on just playing club for DePaul, improving, and then maybe trying to walk on, as much of a long shot as it might be, but you never know.

I would really enjoy playing tennis in college, but I already have a decent academic scholarship to DePaul.

[Raiden.Kaminari]

Originally Posted by knasty131

Well if this doesn't kill your dreams, then I dont know what does. When Baylor won it's "national" title, not one single person who played was American. Good luck buddy, beat the odds. It's all about the foreigners

I have to agree here ... to get into a D1, you'd have to play the pro-circuit like the foreigners do/did. Tennisweek magazine had a huge group of articles about it, especially why all the tennis scholarships were not going to US kids.