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Recruiting Feature Fall Signing Week '15: Overview and Blue Chip Update by Julie Wrege, 9 November 2015
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The time has come. The time is now. Today, The Tennis Recruiting Network kicks off its coverage of Fall Signing Week 2015, and our slate of articles is ready to go.  This Wednesday, November 11th, is Signing Day: the first day that high school seniors can formally commit to a Division I or Division II tennis program. We have been counting down the days for the past month, but now we switch to our Signing Week coverage.
In this first article, we take a look at our schedule for the week, and we also update you on the status of the Blue Chip recruits. Signing Week Schedule All week, TennisRecruiting.net will bring you new features on the seniors. These articles will run in addition to our usual content - the Class Rankings List and RPI rankings that we publish from Tuesday through Friday. Take a look at our coverage schedule - and then get up-to-date on the Blue Chips...
Blue Chip Update Quite a few of our Blue Chips recruits - boys and girls - had made progress towards their college decisions when we checked in with them in October. 29 of the 53 Blue Chip athletes - fourteen boys and fifteen girls - had made commitments. We have been trying to contact the undecideds in the meantime, and today we take one last look at their status before the big day on Wednesday. Several recruits have announced their decisions, others have narrowed their lists, some are considering putting off college for a year or turning professional, and a few more have announcements scheduled. Let's take a look at the lists... Girls' Status The table below shows the updated status of the Blue Chip recruits. The Commitment column shows whether the recruit has made a verbal commitment or is undecided, while the Interests column indicates schools of interest. | Name | State | Commitment | Interests |
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| Madison Battaglia | NY | Announcing Soon | Open | | Madison Bourguignon | FL | | Open | | Hanna Chang | CA | | Open | | Sara Daavettila | MI | North Carolina | Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio State, Tennessee, Wake Forest | | Camille Favero | CA | Virginia | Texas Tech, Vanderbilt, Virginia | | Jenna Friedel | CA | Announcing 11/12 | Harvard, Penn, Stanford, Yale | | Alexa Graham | NY | | Open | | Jada Hart | CA | UCLA | North Carolina, Pepperdine, UCLA, USC, Virginia | | Emma Higuchi | CA | Announcing 11/11 | Duke, Harvard, Pepperdine, TCU, Stanford, UCLA | | Kenya Jones | TN | Announcing 11/11 | Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, LSU, North Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Duke, Pepperdine | | Makenna Jones | SC | Alabama | Alabama, LSU, North Carolina, USC | | Raveena Kingsley | MD | | Open | | Jade Lewis | SC | LSU | LSU | | Jessica Livianu | NY | | Open | | Chiara Lommer | IL | Michigan | California, Michigan, Virginia, Vanderbilt | | Alaina Miller | CA | UCLA | UCLA | | Ingrid Neel | MN | Florida | Duke, Florida, North Carolina | | Alexis Nelson | MN | California | California, LSU, North Carolina, Stanford | | Gaby Pollner | FL | Announcing Dec | Open | | Maddie Pothoff | AZ | Alabama | Alabama, Georgia, LSU | | Taylor Russo | FL | Auburn | Auburn | | Alexandra Sanford | OH | North Carolina | North Carolina | | Ena Shibahara | CA | UCLA | UCLA | | Maria Smith | TX | California | Baylor, California, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Oklahoma State, UCLA | | Karina Traxler | TX | Baylor | Baylor, Florida State, Ole Miss, Texas Tech | | Karina Vyrlan | CA | | Open | | Rebecca Weissmann | CO | LSU | Baylor, LSU, Stanford, TCU, Vanderbilt, Virginia | Two Down, Three to Go Two more women's recruits have made decisions. Maria Smith of Houston announced her commitment to the University of California, Berkeley. You can read about her commitment by clicking here. Jade Lewis, a Top-10 recruit out of Hilton Head, S.C., also committed to LSU. Smith and Lewis will be joined later this week by three more Blue Chip seniors making commitment announcements. Kenya Jones (Memphis, Tenn.) and Emma Higuchi (Los Angeles, Calif.) both make their announcements Wednesday on Signing Day, while Jenna Friedel (Mill Valley, Calif.) will announce her decision on Thursday. Boys' Status Below we see the status for the Blue Chip boys. The table uses the same format as the girls' table above. | Name | State | Commitment | Interests |
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| Adam Ambrozy | FL | | Open | | Ulises Blanch | FL | | Open | | Zeke Clark | OK | Illinois | Baylor, Illinois, Oklahoma, | | Chase Colton | FL | Wisconsin | Wisconsin | | Spencer Furman | WA | | Open | | Matthew Gamble | NY | Announcing 11/12 | Duke, Notre Dame, Penn, Princeton, UCLA, Wake Forest | | William Genesen | OK | Stanford | Stanford | | Razvan Grigorescu | TX | Announcing Soon | Harvard, Illinois, Louisville, Penn, Texas | | Hady Habib | TX | Announcing 11/11 | Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M | | Bjorn Hoffmann | CA | California | Boise State, California, San Diego, Stanford, UC Irvine, UCSB | | Brandon Holt | CA | USC | USC | | Sami Kirberg | FL | | Duke, Georgia, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest | | Robert Levine | NY | Duke | California, Duke, Stanford | | Robert Loeb | SC | Georgia | Georgia, Duke | | Stephen Madonia | FL | | Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Miami (FL), Michigan, Stanford, Texas, Texas A&M, Virginia | | Mwendwa Mbithi | FL | | Open | | Michael Mmoh | MD | | Open | | Alex Phillips | GA | Georgia | Georgia, Georgia Tech | | Nathan Ponwith | AZ | | Open | | Pietro Rimondini | FL | Cornell | Cornell, Illinois, Northwestern | | Billy Rowe | CA | Vanderbilt | California, Princeton, Vanderbilt | | Nikola Samardzic | FL | Wake Forest | Wake Forest | | Johnathan Small | IN | Notre Dame | Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State | | Riley Smith | CA | USC | USC | | Nick Stachowiak | NC | Duke | Duke | | Christopher Yun | GA | Georgia Tech | Georgia Tech | Inching Closer Right before Halloween, Zeke Clark of Tulsa, Okla., announced his commitment to the Illinois Fighting Illini, and we had his commitment announcement right here at Tennis Recruiting. Later this week, Clark will be joined by at least two more Blue Chip seniors making their own commitments. On Signing Day, we get a commitment from Hady Habib (Houston, Texas). Fellow senior Matthew Gamble (Webster, N.Y.) follows up with his announcement on Thursday morning. Fast Start... Signing Week is just getting started, and we have two more articles for you later today. Come by at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific for advice from Patrick Alban of SPMI about how to perform your best when coaches are watching - followed by comments from Blue Chip senior and California recruit Bjorn Hoffmann later this evening. And make sure to come by the website all week for much more. Tomorrow we feature recruits from around the country in our national roundup - leading up to the big day on Wednesday. Stay tuned - as TennisRecruiting.net gives you a courtside seat to all the Signing Week action!
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