Gearing Up for the 2017-18 Season

Middlebury fall tennis season has almost arrived! The coaching staff has been busy this off-season with recruiting activities, but more recently enjoyed setting up a US Open Alumni event where we connected with many former Middlebury Tennis studs including Christopher Mason, Peter Odell, Andrew Lebovitz, Brantner Jones, Peter Heidrich, Jeronimo Reifkohl, and Palmer Campbell.

                          Peter Odell ('10) mashing a FH.       Chris Mason ('10) chilling.

As we approach the start of the 2017-18 season, there are many updates and announcements that we are excited to share. The panthers men’s tennis program is coming off a very strong run last season where we made our 4^th straight final four appearance and won our first individual NCAA championships with Lubomir Cuba winning the singles title and William de Quant and Lubomir Cuba winning the doubles title. 

Will and Lubo after their doubles victory!

We are look forward to building on last year’s momentum and our certainly setting our aim on taking it all the way to the house this season. 

Team photo of the 2016-17 squad

The balanced panthers roster for the 2017-18 season includes 3 seniors, 4 juniors, 3 sophomores, and 4 freshmen. Head Coach Bob Hansen is entering his 7^th season with the Panthers and Assistant Coach Andrew Thomson (class of 2010) is entering his first season as a coach at Midd. The coaching staff is looking forward to kicking off the fall season with our first practice on September 7^th. We look forward to posting updates on our blog throughout this season and cannot wait to get the ball rolling. Below we have left you with some key information such as our updated team roster, notable statistics, and our 2017 fall schedule.

2017-18 Team Roster

Seniors: Timo van der Geest, Kyle Schlanger, and William de Quant

Juniors: Lubomir Cuba, Noah Farrell, Peter Martin, and Cole Sutton

Sophomores: Alex Vanezis, Weston Brach, and Aleksandr Samets

Freshmen: Andre Xiao, Nate Eazor, Adam Guo, and Thorne Gregory

Coaching Staff: Head Coach Bob Hansen and Assistant Coach Andrew Thomson

Notable Statistics

·        The Men’s tennis team maintained an average GPA of 3.79 for the 2016-17 school year, with everyone on the roster posting a GPA above 3.5.  

      With a high rank of 39 on tennisrecruiting.net, Andre Xiao represents the best-ranked incoming freshman the in history of the Middlebury tennis program.

·     Most likely a DIII record, freshman Nate Eazor enters college already having earned 20 ATP doubles points.

2017 Fall Schedule

Date                Time                           School                                                Location

9/23,24            All Day                       Middlebury Invitational         Middlebury, VT

9/29,30,10/1    All Day                       ITA Regionals                         Middlebury, VT

10/6,7,8           All Day                       Farnsworth Tournament         Princeton, NJ

10/13,14,15     All Day                       MIT Invitational                     Boston, MA

Midd!

- The Middlebury Men’s Tennis Coach Staff