NYIT Wins Sixth Straight ECC Title; Adelphi Captures Third Straight NE10 Crown

Oct,31,2017
  | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
It was another successful weekend for some local college tennis programs here on Long Island as the dominant runs of New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) and Adelphi continued. The Northeast-10 final would come down to one final match, and Rebecca Fakas delivered for the Adelphi Panthers,...Read more

NYIT’s Dimmer Wins Second Straight ECC Player of the Year Award

Oct,27,2017
  | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
New York Institute of Technology’s (NYIT) Lena Dimmer was voted the East Coast Conference (ECC) Player of the Year for the second straight season, as the league announced its all-conference teams and award winners on Thursday. Dimmer posted a singles record of 13-3 this season, while also going 15-...Read more

Adelphi’s Fakas Named NE10 Player of the Year

Oct,26,2017
  | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Adelphi senior Rebecca Fakas was named the 2017 Northeast-10 Conference Vern Cox Women’s Tennis Player of the Year , as the conference released its award winners and all-conference teams on Wednesday. Fakas won 11 of her 12 matches in the first singles spot during NE10 play, leading the Panthers to...Read more

USTA Eastern Will Host Annual College Showcase Day in November

Sep,29,2017
  | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Eastern will be hosting its 31 st annual College Showcase Day on Sunday, November 5 at the Saw Mill Club in Mount Kisco, N.Y. The showcase gives high school sophomores, juniors and seniors an opportunity to meet college tennis coaches, collect information, listen to experts and learn about the...Read more

Annual College Tennis Exposure Camp Set for December

Aug,29,2017
  | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Coach Ed Krass’ 29th Annual College Tennis Exposure Camp will be held Dec. 2-3, 2017 at the University of South Florida in Tampa. A former Harvard University Tennis Coach, Krass will direct the camp with 20 head college coaches instructing throughout the weekend. Coach Ed Krass’ College Tennis...Read more

NYIT Women Atop ECC Preseason Poll; Dimmer Selected as Preseason Player of the Year

Aug,21,2017
  | By nytm_web_admin
The college tennis season is rapidly approaching and, once again, the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) women’s tennis team is the favorite to win the East Coast Conference. The Bears, winners of 31 straight regular season matches, received six of the eight first-place votes from the...Read more

College Tennis Spotlight: Thoughts of Two International Division I Players Spending a Summer on Long Island

Aug,17,2017
  | By Ricky Becker
Two of the pros on my staff at Pine Hollow Country Club, Jorge Alfonzo and Asel Jumamukhambetova, come from similar backgrounds. They both hail from countries that don’t have large populations on Long Island (Venezuela and Kazakhstan, respectively), they both start on the college tennis teams at D1...Read more

Long Island’s Graham To Play in American Collegiate Invitiational

Aug,17,2017
  | By nytm_web_admin
The USTA announced that NCAA singles champions Brienne Minor and Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, along with top prospects Christopher Eubanks and Francesca Di Lorenzo, lead the group of top American collegiate players selected to play in the fourth annual American Collegiate Invitational at the 2017 US Open...Read more

Oracle/ITA To Bring Collegiate Championships To Indian Wells This Fall

May,17,2017
  | By nytm_web_admin
Oracle Corp., in conjunction with the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), announced it is strengthening its ongoing commitment to collegiate tennis with the creation of the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships at Indian Wells. “Oracle is committed to tennis, both at the professional and...Read more

Great Neck’s Lehat Named to UAA All-Academic Team

May,03,2017
  | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Photo credit: Jeff Lamanna Brandeis University women’s tennis sophomore Michele Lehat of Great Neck, N.Y., has been named to the Spring 2017 University Athletic Association All-Academic Team. Lehat is one of 45 student-athletes from Brandeis and one of 639 from across the conference to earn All-...Read more