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Monday, June 18, 2007

Macdonald Gets Endowed Chair at Vanderbilt; Bowles Wins Florida State Closed; Men's Summer Collegiate Team Named

When a college mentions their tennis coach in the same breath as their football coach, you know he must be a special teacher. Vanderbilt announced last week that women's tennis coach Geoff Macdonald is the recipient of the John R. Ingram Chair in Coaching Excellence Endowment for his outstanding, long-term performance. I met Geoff Macdonald at Mark Bey's National Junior Tennis Conference two years ago, and I was very impressed with his knowledge and dedication. This honor, of course, depends upon an institution recognizing a treasure when it has one, and Vanderbilt, to its credit, has taken notice.

Since Clint Bowles committed to Florida State last fall, he hasn't been playing much junior tennis, but he did win last week's Florida State Closed, one of the Sunshine State's most prestigious titles. He defeated No. 1 seed Brennan Boyajian in the semifinals and No. 2 seed Ryan Kim in the finals, but it's hard to call either of those wins "upsets"; Bowles was seeded at No. 12 because of limited play.

The Men's USTA ITA Summer Collegiate Team has been announced with Stephen Bass, Travis Helgeson, Bryan Koniecko, Jesse Levine, Todd Paul and Luke Shields named to the touring team. The LSU website disclosed the selections when announcing that Mark Booras, the Tigers' associate head coach, would be coaching the team.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Levine playing in this has to be a good sign that he'll be back at Florida next year.