Tennis

wiu712 · Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:49 pm

Volleyball will only have 2 returning players for the 2015 team. There will be 7 freshmen.

sealhall74 · Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:48 am

brewer2125 wrote:You are wrong, wrong, wrong - again.

At the pro level, the US has more ranked players than any other country. US women have about 10,000 more ranking points than the #2 country, and nearly double the number of ranking points that the #3 country has.

At the collegiate level, less than half of womens' players are foreign (although some believe that is still too high a percentage and some advocate that the NCAA should limit scholarships to foreign players to something like 2 or 3 per school (I doubt that will ever happen).

At the junior level, I already showed you that participation is very high in the US. Overall, at all age groups, including men and women, there are more people playing tennis in the US now than nearly the entire population of Canada, and more than the entire population of Australia. USTA membership is at an all-time high.

We've peeled the onion on this. In my opinion, what you are really all about is just bashing WIU womens tennis (and seizing on the fact that the school has given the proram no real support or resources which lead to ------ a losing record!) to advance your agenda to try to replace tennis with some lame hobby like badminton or rifle. Just because the Olympics has badminton, or that it can be a good workout for you (still trying to figure out how badminton is a workout) doesn't mean anyone cares about it or that it should be an NCAA sport. Around 1900, I'm sure there were some people that thought tug of war was pretty cool, and a good workout, and it even was an Olympic sport there for a while. That doesn't make it a good cadidate for being an NCAA sanctioned sport. Same with badminton, which is nothing more than something that should be left to picnics or gym class, where it belongs.

You are close but not quite right either. There is no agenda for me. I just have a wish/prayer for my alma mater that whenever it sends any students/athletes to any competition anywhere on the planet, they have been well-prepared and have a 100% belief in their hearts that they can compete to win and not just show up and look pretty. Whether it's tennis, badminton, rifle, bowling, bass fishing, band, or math olympics is totally irrelevant.

Thu Dec 17, 2015 3:06 pm

Looks like we're looking for a new women's tennis coach: http://ht.ly/39aHqx

I'm not seeing anything on the athletics site about a women's coach. Did we not have one, or did Coach Washington (the men's tennis coach) also coach women's tennis? Or did we have someone and let them go?

Tere North · Thu Dec 17, 2015 3:38 pm

ST_Lawson wrote:Looks like we're looking for a new women's tennis coach: http://ht.ly/39aHqx

I'm not seeing anything on the athletics site about a women's coach. Did we not have one, or did Coach Washington (the men's tennis coach) also coach women's tennis? Or did we have someone and let them go?

There was one - first time in quite a while that they had different coach for men's and women's tennis.

Here's the PR of her hiring http://www.goleathernecks.com/news/2015 ... ?path=wten

And looks like she left for SEMO based on their post from early November http://www.goleathernecks.com/news/2015 ... ?path=wten

sealhall74 · Thu Dec 17, 2015 5:02 pm

Tere North wrote:
ST_Lawson wrote:Looks like we're looking for a new women's tennis coach: http://ht.ly/39aHqx

I'm not seeing anything on the athletics site about a women's coach. Did we not have one, or did Coach Washington (the men's tennis coach) also coach women's tennis? Or did we have someone and let them go?
There was one - first time in quite a while that they had different coach for men's and women's tennis.

Here's the PR of her hiring http://www.goleathernecks.com/news/2015 ... ?path=wten

And looks like she left for SEMO based on their post from early November http://www.goleathernecks.com/news/2015 ... ?path=wten

They don't mess around down there in Cape Girardeau. I saw they just within last week cut loose 3 guys from hoops because their style of play (recruited by previous coach) did not match that of current coach. Why we would keep women's tennis is yet another mystery.

meganeck · Thu Dec 17, 2015 5:51 pm

Looks like we have a revolving door for a women's coach before that we had from IPFW, I believe, a connection to Tommy Bell. I actually thought she seemed like a good coach, but only stayed a year. I agree should just get rid of women's tennis also, but I sure it has to do with gender equity. Maybe the men's coach will apply for the women's job.

Tere North · Thu Dec 17, 2015 6:16 pm

meganeck wrote:I agree should just get rid of women's tennis also, but I sure it has to do with gender equity.

If you assume we had achieved gender equity with men's tennis (i.e., 10 men's and 10 women's teams), then we would still achiever it after eliminating both men's and women's tennis (then 9 men's and 9 women's).

sealhall74 · Thu Dec 17, 2015 6:16 pm

I thought DI was at least 7 sports for men and 7 for women OR 6 for men and 8 for women.
Somehow, Chicago State getting it done with 6 men and 7 women. Are they getting some sort of waiver?

Thu Dec 17, 2015 6:17 pm

For a school that has football, you need to have more women's sports to help make up for the scholarship differential. You'll see a lot of schools have a women's team in a sport or two without the men's equivalent. For example, none of the Dakota schools in the Summit have men's soccer, but everyone has women's soccer. Also why all the schools have women's volleyball as well.

wiu712 · Thu Dec 17, 2015 9:29 pm

ST_Lawson wrote:Did Coach Washington (the men's tennis coach) also coach women's tennis?

The Men's Tennis Coach Mashiska Washington was an assistant coach for the 2012-2013 Women's Tennis team.

It looks like the two tennis teams shared a coaching staff until the start of the 2013-2014 season.