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 an 11-1 record inside the…
USTA Eastern will be hosting its 31st 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 NCAA process. “The task for these kids…
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 Exposure Camp is the only tennis camp…
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 conference’s coaches. Queens College received the other two-first…
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 colleges in Tennessee (Tennessee Tech at…
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, September 7-9 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. The American…
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 collegiate level,’’ said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. “While the top professionals get well-deserved…
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-Academic honors. She is a 2015 graduate of John L. Miller…
The New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) women’s tennis team advanced to the NCAA Division II Championship’s Round of 16 on Tuesday afternoon, downing Long Island foe Adelphi 5-2 at Stonehill College. The Bears moves on to the final rounds in Altamonte Springs, Florida. NYIT took the early lead with wins in two of the…
Both the men’s and women’s tennis at Stony Brook wrapped up its regular seasons on Tuesday afternoon, and each notched 5-2 victories over Long Island-foe Hofstra. The men’s team was led by its singles play, notching wins in first, third, fourth and fifth singles. Raphael Termat beat Marcus Smith 6-2, 7-6(4) in the first singles…