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contributed to one or more articles at TennisRecruiting.net.
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Dede Allen
Dede Allen is a world-renowned college recruiting expert who is
intimately familiar with both college and junior tennis. Formerly the
ACC Coach of the Year at Wake Forest University, Allen now presents
seminars throughout the country to prospective college tennis players.
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Benjamin Belletto
Ben Belletto is the men's tennis coach at Pomona College, a
position he has held since 2003. Belletto has led the Sagehens
to conference, regional, and national rankings. He has coached
two All-American singles players and and one doubles team.
Belletto also co-directs the Nike Tennis Camp at UC Santa Cruz
during the summer.
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Martin Blackman
Martin Blackman was head coach of the American University Men
from 2001-05, leading the Eagles (74-46 overall, 21-3 Patriot
League) to three conference titles. Blackman earned Patriot
Coach of the Year honors all four years. As an undergraduate at
Stanford, he was part of two NCAA championship teams. Today,
Blackman is Director of Tennis at the Tennis Center at College
Park (TCCP) in Maryland and serves on the USTA Board of Directors.
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Nick Bollettieri
Nick Bollettieri is a living legend - and one of the most
influential men in the game of tennis. In 1978, he founded the
Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, arguably the most successful
tennis academy in the world. Bolletieri has personally coached
nine men and women that achieved a #1 world ranking. Based in
Bradenton, Fla., Bolletieri continues his work as a coach,
speaker, and innovator.
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Andy Brandi
Andy Brandi coached the University of Florida Women for seventeen
years. One of the most successful coaches in the country, Brandi
led his team to 18 NCAA titles, including four team and four
singles titles. He has been named National Coach of the Year
multiple times by both the ITA and USPTA. Brandi is currently a
partner at the Harold Solomon Tennis Institute in Fort Lauderdale.
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Annette Broersma
Annette Broersma is well known throughout the junior tennis world
as a national tournament director and recruiting expert. She
routinely educates junior players and parents as well as high
school and community college counselors on strategies for finding
the right college. Broersma is a regular contributor to
Wilson Sporting Goods'
High School Coach Newsletter and
College Tennis Online,
and she is currently on the Speaker's Bureau for Wilson.
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Tim Cass
Tim Cass had an impressive run as head coach at Texas A&M from
1997-2006. Under his leadership, the Aggies won four Big 12
championships, advanced to the NCAA championships every year and
the Sweet 16 six consecutive years. Texas A&M also led the
nation in attendance, and Cass raised $4 million to enhance the
tennis program and facilities. In 2006 Cass returned to New
Mexico, his alma mater, as senior associate athletics director.
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Harry Cicma
Harry Cicma is an on-air talent and TV sports producer for
NBC-Providence, and and he also covers tennis for
NBC Sports,
writing articles and producing video segments. He is the host
of College Corner - a radio program covering all things college
tennis on Tennis Live Radio. Cicma is a former ATP player who had a
distinguished college career at Rutgers.
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Sonny Dearth
Sonny Dearth is a writer and copy editor, primarily for the sports
section, at the Daily Press newspaper and
dailypress.com
Web site in Newport News, Va. Dearth has more than 30 years of
experience in tennis. He is a former state high school champion
who has served as a volunteer assistant coach in Virginia, where
he started for four years at
James Madison
in the late 1980s.
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Marcia Frost
Marcia Frost is the Editor of
College And Junior Tennis,
published by the non-profit Port Washington Tennis Academy.
She is also a
writer
for USTA Magazine, Tennis Life Magazine, and Racquet Sports
Industry Magazine.
In her role as a college tennis advocate, she is the editor/manager
of
College Tennis Connect,
owned by PWTA and Sports Marketplace, where she writes the Monthly
Guide To College Planning. She is also a member of the USTA/Eastern
College Tennis Committee.
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Bob Greene
Bob Greene is one of the premier journalists in the sport of
tennis. In his four decades of service with the Associated Press,
Greene has covered everything from slam events to junior tournaments.
During that time, he has written about great players well before they
were household names - players like Arthur Ashe and Jimmy Connors.
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J.W. Isenhour
A former head coach of N.C. State men's tennis from 1968-81, Isenhour
also led the women through three successful seasons, while bringing
N.C. State tennis from near obscurity into the limelight. Isenhour's
men's teams compiled back-to-back ACC championships in 1978 and 1979 -
the lone pair of championships in school history. N.C. State
recently opened the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center in his honor.
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Gregg Jones
Gregg Jones is an author and investigative reporter at
The Dallas Morning News.
In a newspaper career spanning 25 years, Jones has won numerous
awards and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Jones
played college tennis at Northeast Louisiana University and was
formerly ranked No. 3 in Texas Men's 35 singles. He lives in
Plano, Texas, with his wife, Ali, and son, Christopher, a ranked
junior in Texas.
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Colette Lewis
Colette Lewis has covered topflight U.S. and international junior
events as a freelance journalist over the past two years. Her work
has earned her contracts with such organizations as the Tennis
Channel, the USTA, Tennis Magazine, and the ITF junior website.
Lewis comments daily on junior tennis at her popular
ZooTennis website.
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Marc Lucero
Marc Lucero was an assistant coach for
Princeton University women's
tennis team from the Fall of 2004 through the Summer of 2007. Prior
to coming to Princeton, he worked with high school players at the
University of San Diego High School, several top local juniors,
and local ATP/WTA players. Lucero is a 2002 graduate of
Boston College
and former captain of the men's tennis team. He currently is
based in San Diego, Calif.
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Dan Magill
Dan Magill is one of the great men of tennis - and a true ambassador
of the game of college tennis. Magill was the head coach at the
University of Georgia for 34 years, and he retired as the all-time
winningest coach in NCAA Division I history (706 career wins). He is
the recipient of the two most prestigious awards available to college
coaches: ITA National Coach of the Year (1980), and the J.D. Morgan
Award (1990).
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Chris Mahony
Chris Mahony was all-everything at the University of Tennessee.
As a player from 1993-96, Mahony earned All-America and Academic
All-America honors. After serving five years as an assistant coach,
Mahony was head coach of the Volunteers in 2005 and 2006, leading the
team to a spot in the Round of 16 in the 2005 NCAA Championships.
Mahony is now Head Coach of Tennis Australia's National High
Performance Academy.
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Alana Marcu
Alana Marcu is a photojournalist residing in New York City whose
photos regularly appear in The Chief Leader newspaper. She played
college tennis at Boston University, serving as the Graduate Assistant
coach for one year while she completed the Master's program of
photojournalism. Marcu is still connected to tennis - teaching group
lessons at NYU several times a week.
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Vicky Martin
Dr. Vicky-Lynn Martin was head coach of the Florida Southern College
women's team for six seasons, earning Sunshine Conference Coach of the
Year honors in 2001. Martin's teams posted an overall record of 78-51
with four NCAA tournament appearances. Her 2004 team compiled an 18-6
record and a number 13 final ranking in Division II. Today, Dr. Martin
is an associate professor for sport management at Liberty University
(Lynchburg, VA).
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Allen Morris
Allen Morris was head coach of the North Carolina men's tennis
team for thirteen years. His UNC teams achieved a 245-123 record
and won two ACC championships. Morris left UNC to return to his
Alma Mater, Presbyterian College (Clinton, SC), as the Director of
Athletics. His success at PC led to his induction into the
South Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame, one of five Halls of Fame
where Morris is a member.
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West Nott
West Nott has run the gamut in tennis as a player, coach, and
author. Nott currently serves as the editor of
UndergroundTennis.com
(UGT) and is a Junior Developmental Coach.
As a player, Nott was a US National Indoor Junior Champion, played
Davis Cup tennis, and won the Mother-Son National Indoor Doubles
Championship. He played college tennis at both Florida and Georgia
Tech, and he was an Assistant Coach at the University of Washington.
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Tom Schrader
Tom Schrader was head tennis coach at the University of North
Florida for seven years. His coached both the men's and women's
teams, developing them into perennial powers and achieving
records of 135-57 and 116-57, respectively. Schrader received
many honors for his work at UNF, including men's Division II
Wilson/ITA National Coach of the Year in 2004. Schrader
currently serves as a tour manager for the ATP.
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Don Schroer
Don Schroer, head coach at Emory University for 31 years, is a member
of a select group of college tennis coaches who have amassed more than
500 career wins. Schroer became the 22nd person in NCAA history ever
to join that group with a 4-0 win against Chicago April 23, 1999, in
the opening round of the University Athletic Association conference
tournament.
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Jeff Sikes
Jeff Sikes performs many communications and public relations
functions for
USTA Missouri Valley.
Prior to that, Jeff was a sports reporter working for Associated
Press and other publications. He has covered Davis Cup, ATP, WTA, and
USTA Pro Circuit events. Jeff holds a degree in journalism from
the University of Texas in Austin.
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Phil Stukenborg
Phil Stukenborg, a Memphis native, has been a member of
The Commercial Appeal
sports staff since 1982. He covers a variety of sports, including
University of Memphis athletics. Among other tennis assignments,
Stukenborg covers the Girls' 18 Claycourts in Memphis.
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Craig Tiley
Craig Tiley elevated the men's tennis program at the University of
Illinois to elite status during his tenure from 1992 to 2005.
Under his direction, Illinois won eight consecutive Big 10
Conference titles, went on a 64-match winning streak from
2002-2004, and won the 2003 NCAA Division I championship. Today,
Tiley serves as the Director of Player Development for Tennis
Australia.
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Paul Torricelli
Paul Torricelli is the winningest coach in history at
Northwestern University. His teams recorded 332 wins with nine
NCAA tournament appearances, two undefeated conference seasons,
and a Big Ten championship while earning three Big Ten "Coach
of the Year" awards. Among other pursuits, Paul Torricelli is a
Consultant of Tennis Operations for
Scholarship for Athletes.
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Scott Treibly
Scott Treibly is a seasoned veteran in the world of collegiate
athletics. As an undergraduate, he played #1 singles at the
University of New Mexico. He later served as assistant coach
at Texas A&M where he earned regional coach of the year
honors. Since 2001, Treibly has been the Head Coach and College
Placement Director at IMG/Bollettieri Academy.
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Laurie Wexel
Laurie Wexel is a nutritional researcher and speaker on
sports nutrition for the tennis player. She is an avid
tennis player - and is President of
HealthyTennis.com,
a business dedicated to the health of the tennis player.
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Julie Wrege
TennisRecruiting.net's own Julie Wrege has accomplishments across
the tennis spectrum - as a college head coach as well as for
juniors locally and nationally. Wrege's two tenures as head coach
at Georgia Tech earned her a spot in the school's Hall of Fame.
A co-founder of TennisInformation.com, other highlights include
starting junior competition for ALTA and novice tournaments for
the Georgia Tennis Association.
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