Middlebury Invitation 2018 This Weekend!

Middlebury Fall tennis season is underway! Even though we have been practicing for less than one week, the coaching staff has been pleasantly surprised at the level of focus and work our group has been able to put in. With the Middlebury Invitational starting on Saturday, everyone is feeling excited for our first competition of the year. It is always particularly enjoyable to see our freshmen compete in Panther gear for the first time!

As we start our first competition of the year, we remind ourselves that joy is
a critical ingredient of the Middlebury Tennis journey from start to finish!

Freshman Spotlight: Get To Know Freshmen Zach Hilty

Hometown: San Luis Obispo, California

Siblings: One older sister

Favorite Food: Spaghetti with Meatballs

Favorite Hobby Outside of Tennis: Mountain Biking
Pets: A one-year old golden retriever named Rafa and three cats named Lucy, Leo, and Susie

Favorite Pro Tennis Player: Rafael Nadal

Best Part About Being Left-Handed: Confuses Opponents

Favorite Thing About Middlebury College So Far: The people here are open-minded and willing to learn new stuff

Zach Hilty '21 (left) with Stan Morris '21
repping some new Midd gear!

Match play begins at 9am on both Saturday and Sunday for anyone interested in coming out to support. If you are following along from afar, results will be updated here each day: http://athletics.middlebury.edu/sports/mten/2018-19/schedule

Our entire roster will be competing this weekend, with the exception of Junior Alex Vanezis, who is currently studying abroad in Japan!

To add to our preparation, please see below an updated history of the Middlebury A Flight singles and doubles. Of note, both Farrell and Cuba will be competing again in the A flight to see if they can etch their names another time on this prestigious list!

A Brief History of the Middlebury Invitational A Flight Since 2002

Year	Singles Winner	Singles Finalist	Doubles Winners
2002	Edmunds (Midd)	Burke (Bow)	Ingoglia/Edmunds Hulce/Beilin (Midd) co-champs
2003	Waldron (Midd)	Edmunds (Midd)	Brown/Ingoglia (Midd)
2004	Waldron/Mayer (Midd)	Co-champs	Edmunds/Waldron Beilin/Scott (Midd) co-champs
2005	Edmunds/Waldron (Midd)	Co-champs	Bergesen/Edmunds Beilin/Waldron (Midd) co-champs
2006	Alex Scott (Midd)	Marsden (Trin)	Marinkovic/Olson Scott/Mayer (Midd) co-champs
2007	Gates (Bow)	Stein (Bates)	Marinkovic/Thomson (Midd)
2008	Sullivan (Bow)	Stein (Bates)	Brown/Chin (Colby)
2009	Thomson (Midd)	Pena (Bow)	Rupasinghe/Bettles (Bates)
2010	Peters (Midd)	Bonfiglio (Trin)	Rifkin/Newton (Ith)
2011	Parower (Midd)	Jones (Midd)	Jones/Lebovitz (Midd)
2012	Cramptom (Bates)	Bettles (Bates)	Crampton/Bettles (Bates)
2013	Fitzgibbons (Midd)	Glickman (Tufts)	Mountifield/Smolyar (Midd)
2014	Smolyar (Midd)	Farrell (Midd)	Planche/Ellis (Bates)
2015	Farrell (Midd)	Granoff (Brandeis)	Grimes/Uyeno (RPI)
2016	Farrell (Midd)	Leung (Skidmore)	Derbani/Schlanger (Midd)
2017	Cuba (Midd)	Rosen (Bates)	Schlanger/van der Geest (Midd)

Also, we wanted to share that we have finalized the date of our Ring Ceremony which will take place on October 20^th at the halftime of the homecoming Panther football game (vs Bates)! We do still have a handful of 2018 Championship t-shirts left ($15 each). If you would like to order any, please email us and we will send them out to you. 

Go Midd!

- The Middlebury Men’s Tennis Coach Staff