Eph men's tennis moves up to 5th in national poll
Nick Lebedoff '10
Dave Donn's Williams men's tennis team (2-0) climbed one spot
from the end of the fall season in then national rankings to fifth.
At the end of the fall portion of the schedule the Ephs were ranked
sixth nationally.
Along with winning both dual matches in the fall the Ephs had six
individuals advance to the Round of 16 at the ITA New England
Tournament, four individuals advance to the ITA New England
quarterfinals and junior Jeremy Weinberger made it to the semifinal
round. Senior Rick Devlin and first year Kevin Shallcroos
made it to the Round of 16, senior Karol Furmaga, junior Nick
Lebedoff and first year Will Petrie were the Ephs who made it to
the quarterfinal round.
In the ITA New England doubles play Weinberger and Shallcross
appeared in the semifinals and Furmaga and Devlin advanced to the
quarterfinals.
"It is nice to be recognized coming into our season, but our main
goal at this point is to continue improving and getting ready for
spring break and beyond," noted head coach Dave Donn. "We're
playing 10 teams currently ranked and that is only going to push us
to become as mentally and physically tough as can be, which will be
key"
Men’s Division III Top 25
Campbell/ITA College Tennis Rankings:
Rank, school --- LW (11/6)
1. Emory University ---
2
2. Washington University --- 1
3. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps --- 3
4. Middlebury --- 5
5. Williams --- 6
6. Amherst --- 7
7. Kenyon --- 8
8. Gustavus Adolphus --- 9
9. UC Santa Cruz --- 4
10. Trinity University (TX) --- 12
11. Bowdoin --- 11
12. University of Mary Washington --- 10
13. University of Redlands --- 13
14. Trinity College --- 14
15. Johns Hopkins --- 15
16. Carnegie Mellon --- 16
17. DePauw University --- 18
18. Washington and Lee --- 19
19. Whitman College --- 20
20. The University of Texas at Tyler --- 21
21. Bates College --- 22
22. Salisbury --- 23
23. Christopher Newport University --- 24
24. Denison --- 26
25. University of Chicago --- 25
