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2007 ITA
Achievement
Award
Dr. Geoffrey
Tabin received
the 2007 ITA Achievement Award, presented by the
International Tennis Hall of Fame and Rolex Watch
U.S.A. on Sept. 7 in New York.
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USTA/ITA
award grants
for Tennis
On Campus
Programs
Nearly
$19,000 in
funding
provided by
the USTA and
the ITA will
be
distributed
to Tennis On
Campus
programs
being
administered
by
ITA-member
schools this
Fall.
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College
Tennis and
the US Open
College
route came into focus during the Open in
light of
John Isner's
recent success.
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College
Tennis' Best
and
Brightest
Honored in
New York
2007 ITA
Collegiate
All-Star
Team and
ITA/Arthur
Ashe Jr.
Leadership &
Sportsmanship
Award
winners
honored
August 25
inside Ashe
Stadium.
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ITA
Coaches Convention
Updates
Be sure to
get an early
start on
your plans
to attend
this year's
Convention.
Todd Martin,
courtesy of
Wilson, will
be the
featured
clinician
and keynote
speaker, at
our 2007 ITA
Coaches
Convention
at the
Naples
Grande
Resort &
Club,
located
beachside.
Convention
Information
2007 ITA
National
Summer
Championships
Presented by
the USTA William &
Mary's
Ragini
Acharya and
Tennessee's
Christopher
Racz claim
singles
titles. Duke
and Harvard
duos claim
doubles Tuesday at
Indiana
University.
Championships
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Another Big
Year For ITA
Collegiate
Summer
Circuit
This
year 2,589
players
participated
in circuit
events, the
second
highest
participation
total ever,
just shy of
last year's
record of
2,624. The
ITA thanks
all of this
year's
Tournament
and Circuit
Directors,
host sites
and
participants.
And special
thanks to
National
Summer
Circuit
Director Lin
Loring of
Indiana
University.
2007 ITA
Academic Awards
Program
ITA
Academic
Award
recipients
have been
named for
Div. I, Div. II,
Div. III,
NAIA and
Junior
College.
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Ball Change
for Division
I Women's
Tennis
Starting
with ITA
Women's All
American
Championships
in October
(the first
national ITA
event for
the 2007-08
season), ITA
Division I
regional and
national
women's
events will
use Regular
Duty tennis
balls.
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2007-08 ITA Sanctioned Tournament Schedule
If you are
planning to host a tournament this coming season
please submit your information by mail or fax
(609-497-9766) to the ITA office before September 1,
2007.
Application forms and next
season's schedule are now available.
For additional information, please call Penny
Sing at 609-497-6920
Looking for a Coach?
The
Job Seekers
section on the ITA website contains information on more than 50 men and
women seeking head and assistant coaching positions.
2007 Pan Am
Games
Megan Falcon
(LSU) and
Audra Cohen
(Miami) came
up just
short of a
bronze medal
in women's
doubles. The
men's team
is competing
this week.
Team
Announcement
Results Page
2007 USTA
Summer
Collegiate
Team
Announced
Twelve of
the nation's
top
collegiate
men's and
women's
tennis
players have
been named
to the 2007
USTA Summer
Collegiate
Team.
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NCAA
Announces
Dates
Changes for
2008 NCAA
Division II
Championships
Since the tennis championships will be conducted
as a part of
the Division
II Sports
Festival in
Houston,
Texas next
year, the
championship
dates have
been pushed
back one
week from
the usual
dates.
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Additional Information: NCAA Educational Column
The NCAA
membership services staff provided this information
on June 8 in response to questions submitted by the
ITA pertaining to the May 3, 2007, NCAA Educational
Column. The column focused on a (Division I)
student-athlete's receipt of expenses from a
nonprofessional sponsor of an event and payment
based on performance.
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2007 ITA National Players and Doubles Teams of the
Year
Miami's
(Fla.) Audra Cohen and Virginia's Somdev Devvarman
have been named the 2007 ITA National Players of the
Year and Georgia's Luis Flores and John Isner and
North Carolina's Sara Anundsen and Jenna Long are
the ITA National Doubles Teams of the Year.
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2007 ITA All-America Teams
The
nation's top players honored division by division.
Teams
Class of 2007 inducted into ITA Men's
Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame
Eleven new ITA Hall of Fame members
were inducted May 23 in ceremonies in Athens, Ga.. The Class of 2007 included eight players, two
coaches and one contributor. MaliVai Washington and Todd Martin
were among this
year's inductees.
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ITA National
Team Sportsmanship Award winners announced for May
Harvard,
Montana State, Dayton and Murray State recognized.
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ITA
National
Team
Sportsmanship
Award
winners
The UMBC men
and Grand
Valley State
women are
this month's
recipients.
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DecoTurf
and
Plexipave
named the
official
tennis
surfaces for
the ITA
The ITA has
named
DecoTurf and
Plexipave
as the
official
tennis
surfaces for
its
membership.
Already the
surfaces of
choice for
hundreds of
colleges and
universities
throughout
the country,
DecoTurf and
Plexipave
will provide
ITA member
coaches an
incentive to
choose to
play on
their
numerous
multi-layer
tennis court
systems.
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Building
Your Program
Series
Chapter
5 offers
important
information
for coaches
whose
programs
could be in
jeopardy of
being cut.
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Dropped program list
Let the ITA know about dropped
programs
 Anthony
Travel and
ITA form
partnership
College
coaches are
now able to
use the
services of a new travel
office that
focuses
exclusively
on providing
travel plans
for college
athletic
teams and
organizations
nationwide,
whether it’s
for one
event, a
single
match, one
tournament
or a full
season.
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Champs
crowned at National
Collegiate
Wheelchair
Championships
in
Louisville The top
college
wheelchair
tennis
players in
the country
competed for
national
titles
Louisville,
March 17-18.
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Corwin named
new Senior
Director for
Junior &
Collegiate
Competition
by USTA
Timon
Corwin,
Kalamazoo
College's
men's tennis
coach, men's
athletics
director,
and director
of the USTA
Boys' 18 &
16 National
Tennis
Championships,
has
announced
that he will
be leaving
Kalamazoo
College at
the end of
the current
tennis
season. He
will begin a
position at
the USTA
Player
Development
Headquarters
in Key
Biscayne,
Florida as
senior
director for
junior and
collegiate
competition.
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ITA Rule Changes, Updates and Clarifications
Click here
to view adopted changes by the Rules Committee at its December Meeting
at the ITA Annual Coaches Convention.
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