During the season (both Fall ITA and spring), we will play Tuesday-Saturday from 2-3 hours a day. We also do conditioning on most of those days as well. Occasionally, we’ll have a set hour at some point just for conditioning.
It’s funny some guys who never played Jr tourneys fall in love with tennis and think they can become a pro and play Grand Slam. son met one of those at a prize $-guy had go fund me page, was UTR 9 and thought he would be playing Big 3 (this was 4 years ago) in a few years. Totally delusional. Son who had just graduated HS beat him 1,2. Guy is still playing adult tourneys 5 years later. Guy lost 0,0 to UTR 10 recently but did lose in 3 to 10.7. Guy should just join 4.5 team
Honestly, I wish that my friend would play one session against any college player and understand the difference that there is. Both of us attended a university with a low D1 tennis program, but those guys would easily sweep the floor with either of us. And most of those athletes seem to have no aspiration to play professionally. Wish my friend could accept the "harsh" reality at some point..
I received both merit and financial aid from Sewanee, got cost down to a very reasonable amount. No one on the team attends on a full-ride.
Hmmm, wonder what school you’re from…
How many players play all 4 years? With 16-20 players on roster, how many guys get to play singles and dubs? Is D3 7 points vs 9 pts this year? Did u have guys who were dubs specialists that hate the change? Where does Suwanee fit in D3 landscape? I think NEScac and UAA are top plus CMS with those guys 4 and 5 stars. The guys in GA who went to Suwanee-lot of them- were 2-4 stars-played HS tennis + sectional USTA.
When I played college at D3 back in the 90's, my doubles partner (who was a freshman when I was a junior) was convinced he could "go pro". We were an average D3 tennis program. He was a slightly cocky kid from a small town, but honestly thought it was a realistic goal. I think it probably took him a season of D3 college tennis to realize that goal was essentially unobtainable.
I’d say in the last several years, 90% of our players stayed all 4 years. Last season, the main lineup consisted of (usually) 8 players, with 2 doubles specialists, which I was. I believe that this year, the doubles will only be a 1 point clinch. As someone that was a specialist last year, I felt like it kind of lowered the importance of doubles but at the same time, I think it’s not the worst.
What’s the typical UTR range for the players actively playing on the main lineup of the team - high for #1 to low for the #8?
About from high 11 to low 10.
Thanks. Our club had a lot of UTR Open tournaments last year during the pandemic and many were won by D1 players who seemed to be between 12 to 13.5. Finalists were from places like Princeton, BYU, UCLA, USC etc. One of our coaches is around 11.5 and used to make it to the semis along with other lower division college players. Pity that now that the college kids are not doing online classes anymore, we don’t have as many tournaments.
I wish I could guess but no schools come to mind haha
We practice almost every day (captain’s practices) for about 2 hours and have our own lifts or the scheduled team lifts. We are lucky to have 3 indoor courts here so we will schedule practices in accordance with our women’s team.
Rackets here aren’t supplied like most D3 (I think at least), but we are given discounts on all Wilson and Yonex as we have accounts with them. I got my Blade Pros through our Wilson account so I was pretty grateful there. Most of the team uses Wilson or Yonex anyways so it works out perfectly.
The v8, just wish the copper-ish color was like a purple color instead. V7 is still good though, nice and sleek.
You are 4.5 right? I will tell myself he is 5.0. The amount and variety of spin he was able to generate on his serves and the cleanliness of his short ball putaways make me think this is not complete delusion.
So you're saying your friends are high 4.5s or maybe low 5.0s? It's funny you say that btw. I watch GSG and think I would easily beat him on an average day. I think maybe goes to illustrate the importance of playstyle matchups and familiarity.
Oh **** I scanned old posts for NTRP before asking my question but didn't even think to look for UTR too I'm sorry.
Yeah I think it's just that the way he wins doesn't intimidate me because I have a game strongly built on junkballing. I would hit a lot more things for winners than I see his average opponent does even though I would lose to his average opponent handily if I tried to trade topspin with them from the baseline.
Yeah I'll assume this guy is 5.0 then. Three different spins on a second serve with equal capability + the short putaways looked like what I see in 5.0 videos where its the flat fade and there is absolutely zero doubt its getting hit for a winner.
Yeah it would make sense there is a big gap between top D1 and lesser D1.
I played NTRP 5.0 this summer. I had never played adult leagues before so I just got myself self-rated and played doubles.
Hint: it was when everyone used wooden racquets, and the tennis balls were white.
Appreciate it! Looking to build on the momentum.
We have a very family-like culture here. Both teams are really close to one another and we will support each other both on and off the court. Like we’re always out eating with other, going out to parties or whatever like normal college students, working out, studying, just always together which helps our chemistry and just morale once the spring hits.
Man, did you play when Sewanee was in the SEC? hahahahah joking
Sounds a lot like the atmospere at Kalamazoo College. It's probably like that for most Div. II and lower end Div. I
It's what I observe with the players at the D3 near me. But to be honestly I think it is generally this way with most college sports teams from NAIA to high D1 because it's just an obvious nucleus for a social group to form.
I’ve heard that as well, we actually play Zoo this coming spring so that’ll be fun. I don’t really know why a school from Michigan is coming down to play us but at least I can sleep in my own bed.
There’s not much to it other than we just do. A big component with our coaches is having this balance; and that comes with time management and just making sure we’re all like alive. Most people on the team have usually 2 classes a day (then there’s me, a STEM major, who has multiple labs but I’m an outlier haha) and then we have our 2 hour practices and conditioning. That’s about 5-6 hours of set work a day and in between all of that, we usually do all our studying and homework, so we have time to chill out and do other things.
I second this.
I suspect most college students over-report studying and under-report drinking when speaking with their parents
