Princeton Tops Women's Recruiting Class Rankings; Stanford Takes Over No. 1 Spot from Georgia Tech
The Tennis Recruiting Network's poll of the women's recruiting classes came out yesterday and Princeton heads the list, receiving 14 of the 20 first place votes cast. Georgia and Stanford received three votes apiece. Only three of the 23 blue chip girls in the 2008 class have not signed: No. 5 Ariel Ellis, No. 7 Chloe Jones and No. 22 CC Sardinha. So there may not be a lot of movement after the spring signing period, although unrated foreign players could make a difference.
As expected after their home loss to Northwestern, the Georgia Tech women fell out of the top spot in this week's team rankings and enter the Women's Team Indoor this weekend in Madison, Wisc. as the No. 4 seeds, behind No. 1 Stanford, No. 2 UCLA and No. 3 Northwestern. For the Women's Indoor draw, click here. For the new team rankings, click here.
Tennis.com has added a college tennis section, which collegeandjuniortennis.com's Marcia Frost will be overseeing the next several months. Although the link isn't readily accessible from the tennis.com homepage, it can be found here.
Sally Milano at usta.com has an extensive profile of Georgia's Nate Schnugg here.
And for those of you interested in the renewal of the Texas/Texas A & M men's tennis rivalry, it is Friday, in Houston, and will be webcast by Ken Thomas at radiotennis.com. For more information, click here.
12 comments:
Anyone know why the Florida women skip the team indoor? They have won this 6 times in the past, but they haven't participated in the last 5 years. They are always one of the top teams in the nation, but I just wonder why they avoid playing there?
Truly unbelievable. Although my loyalties lie with GT I accept that we no-longer deserve the top position. But, I fail to see how people could have voted Stanford into the number one slot when they've only beaten the unranked Hawaii and the #40 UNLV. Northwestern, which has beaten the numbers 15, 62 and 1 ranked teams is far, far more deserving of the top position. Even UCLA has done better by beating numbers 19,36 and 68.
Because it's Stanford. That's how the world tends to work.
Looking for advice...
Was surprised to see some of the names on the IVY recruiting lists becasue not strong students. Have a daughter who is a sophomore w/ a high ranking. Anyone know what it takes for grades and SATs for the Ivies if a top recruit. Heard they can be very flexible. Anyone else heard that?
some schools have stronger standards than others...
Austin, I really believe you're right. Stanford and UCLA undeservedly ranked 1 and 2 while the less fashionable but totally more deserving Northwestern is relegated to position 3. Even in the individual stakes, Stanford have been stinking up the court so there's nothing there to justify their boost in ranking. If anything they should have dropped down to #4 below Northwestern,UCLA and GT.
If I were Lele Forood and her team I'd be ashamed that I'd retained the #1 ranking through politics and not because I truly deserved it.
Also, why do they put out team rankings on the 29th of January and then again on the 5th of February? No-one has played enough tennis to justify a new set of rankings. They've even got another list coming out on the 12th which is makes the ones from the 5th totally redundant.
Shaq, per the ivy league could you elaborate on the bottom index. Was told there are high, medium and low bands but no-one gets specific. Any idea what is the SAT, SAT II range for a low band and grades. Was told it can drop a lot for top ranked players.
Ivyhopeful,
It depends on her high she is ranked in the Nation.
If she is top 10 - her grades, SAT's, etc, can be less than if she was top 20 or 30. Top 50 she is going to need almost the same scores (academic) as everybody else.
Basically the ivies are looking for franchise players - who can play as a freshman and play high in the line up- to relieve some of the pressure for SAT's, grades, etc.
It also depends on who and what year the members of the current team are - and how well the team did in the ivies in the last few years and who they have recruited when your daughter is applying.
The student will still have to compete academically with the non-athletes, so she will have to be pretty bright, either way.
Both my boys attened ivy league schools, although only 1 played tennis.
The one who played tennis, also attended a different ivy league school for graduate work - and the tennis in college does not help for grad school -- only grades, gmats, community service, etc, no sports for grad work.
I will be out of the country for the next 10 days -so I will not be able to comment unless I can get my hands on a computer.
Good luck and I hope this helps!!
colette
is cc sardinia 15 years old because just a few years ago she was playing in the 12s and played the orange bowl in the 16s
She's 16, according to ITF junior website and will be 17 in October.
To man in the moon,
In the reg pool last year so many of my friends kids got rejected (not even deferred) from the Ivies with over 2200 SATs and 700s on SATIIs but heard of a tennis player form my area who got an ivy spot who had a supposed 1850 combined and not great SATII. Does that makes sense? When you saw in the top 50 and above there is not leeway? How about the cutoff for an ITF rankinng to be considered a top ivy recruit?
Ivy hopeful,
the ivies could fill every spot in all 8 ivy league schools with perfect SAT and GPA if they wanted to.
The ivy schools are looking for people who excel not only in school, but achieve in life. Whether it be the flute,writing a op ed in the NY Times, performing arts, etc- they are looking for standout studnets that achieve national not local or regional accomplishments. Standford, and many other schools are also looking for those type students.
Of course there is leeway, however there are many factors involved, as mentioned in my previous post. I am not sure what ITF rank the ivies are looking at, but if the player can't make an impact as a fresman- it will be unlikely that the school will waive academic results.
Good luck
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