MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #20
April 30,
2001
For the first time in NCAA history, schools from the same
conference are selected to host the Men’s and Women’s
Division III Tennis Championships. DePauw University plays host to
the men’s field and Trinity University welcomes the
women’s field. The team championships are slated for May
18-20, 2001 and the individual championships – singles
and doubles – are scheduled for May 21-23, 2001.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #19
May 7,
2006
For just the second time in league history and first since 2000,
the SCAC sends two men's teams to the national quarterfinal round.
DePauw University improved to 21-6 and advanced to the NCAA
Division III quarterfinals following a 5-2 win over 13th-ranked
Kalamazoo (Mich.) College. It marked the third Division III
quarterfinal appearance for DePauw with the other trips coming in
1990 and 2000. Trinity University defeated Pacific Lutheran (Wash.)
University, 4-0, in San Antonio to advance to the national
quarterfinals for the fifth consecutive year. The following week,
the two would both lose 4-0 to Emory (Ga.) University and
Middlebury (Vt.) College, respectively, in the national
quarterfinals.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #18
May 22,
2005
Senior Jim Shaughnessy of Trinity University, the 2005 SCAC Men's
Tennis Player-of-the-Year, advances to the semifinals of the
2005 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Individual tournament
before losing to eventual national champion Matt Seeberger of Santa
Cruz, 6-2, 6-1.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #17
May 7,
2005
After his eighth-ranked team is upended by 23rd-ranked Kenyon
(Ohio) College in the first round of the 2005 NCAA
Division III Men's Tournament, DePauw University head coach
Tom Cath is named the ITA/Wilson Division III Men’s
Coach-of-the-Year – the second time he received the honor in
his 20-year career and the first time since the Tigers joined the
SCAC.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #16
May 20, 1996
After advancing to the national quarterfinals with a 4-3
victory over Washington (Md.) College in the South Region
sub-region finals, the Trinity University men’s
tennis team loses to University of Redlands (Calif.), 4-2, in the
fifth-place match at the 1996 NCAA Division III Championships at
Emory (Ga.) University. The sixth-place finish ties the 1993
Trinity team for the highest SCAC men's tennis finish at the
national championships (later bested).
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #15
May 2-4,
2003
For the second consecutive year, the SCAC has four men's teams
qualify for the NCAA Division III Tennis Championships. DePauw
University is defeated in the first round by Washington (Mo.)
University, 6-1. Rhodes College defeats Sewanee-The University
of the South, 5-2, in the first round, but drops a 7-0
decision to host Emory (Ga.) University in the sub-region
finals. The ninth-ranked Trinity University men advanced
to the national quarterfinals for the fourth time in five years
with a 4-3 victory over No. 6 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the
2003 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis West Region second round in San
Antonio. Tiger sophomore Nick Kaloudis won, 6-3, 6-7, 6-2 over Adam
Fuhriman at No. 6 singles to close out the match for Trinity. The
Tigers would fall the following week to Emory (Ga.) University
(6-1) in the national
quarterfinals played in St. Peters, Minn.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #14
April 24,
2005
With the match knotted at 3-3, the 2005 SCAC Men’s
Tennis Championship at Burns Park Tennis Center in North Little
Rock, Ark., came down to one singles match. Trinity
University’s Oliver Gaines knocked off DePauw
University’s Jeff Zanchelli at No. 5 singles in three sets
– all of which went to a tiebreaker – and the TU Tigers
earned their 12th consecutive SCAC men’s tennis championship
and 13th overall.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #13
May 22,
1994
Trinity University places eighth nationally at the 1994 NCAA
Division III Men's Championships held at Redlands, Calif., losing
to Emory (Ga.) University, 5-3, in the seventh-place match.
Afterwards, Trinity head coach Butch Newman is named the ITA/Wilson
Division III Men's Tennis Coach-of-the-Year.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #12
May 9-11,
2002
With the selections of DePauw University, Rhodes College,
Sewanee-The University of the South and Trinity University, the
SCAC places four men’s teams into the field for the 2002
NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament - a league-high for tournament
participants in a single year. Rhodes defeated Sewanee, 4-1,
in opening round play at the Atlantic South Regional, but was
defeated in the region finals by Emory (Ga.) University the
following day (7-0). In first round Great Lakes Region play,
Washington (Mo.) University defeated DePauw 4-1. After
receiving a first-round bye, Trinity defeated Linfield (Ore.)
College, 4-3, in the West Region finals to earn the
program’s seventh appearance in the NCAA Quarterfinals. In
that quarterfinal round the following week, however, the
Tigers were defeated 4-0 by Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) College.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #11
May 13-14,
2000
DePauw University and Trinity University both
advance to the 2000 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis national
quarterfinals - a feat that was later duplicated in 2006 and 2007
by the two tennis powerhouses. DePauw defeated Denison (Ohio)
University, 6-1, in the first round of the 2000 Midwest Region and
then dispatched Kalamazoo (Mich.) College with a thrilling 4-3
win the following day. In the South Region sub-region final,
fourth-ranked Trinity blanked host University of Mary Washington
(Va.), 7-0, to advance to the quarterfinals.
In that historic national quarterfinal matchup of SCAC
schools the following week, Trinity's men defeated DePauw,
4-0, in a match played indoors due to inclement weather.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #10
May 10, 1993
At the 1993 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Tournament,
hosted by Kalamazoo (Mich.) College, Trinity University and
Sewanee-The University of the South place sixth and ninth
respectively, giving the SCAC two Top 10 national finishes in
the same year and sport for the first time in
conference history (equaled by women's tennis the same
year). Trinity lost 5-2 to the University of California-San
Diego in the fifth-place match, while Sewanee defeated Swarthmore
5-2 in the ninth-place match. Following the Championships, Sewanee
freshman K.C. Horne was named the ITA’s Rookie-of-the-Year.
Horne finished his career as the most decorated men's tennis player
in Sewanee history, earning all-America honors all four years on
the Mountain.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #9
May 30, 2010
The Trinity University men’s doubles tennis team of Bobby
Cocanougher and Cory Kowal lose a tightly played (6-3, 6-4)
decision to the University of California-Santa Cruz’s Brian
Pybas and Marc Vartabedian in the championship match of the 2010
NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championships doubles
competition. Earlier in the day, Cocanougher and Kowal upset the
top-seeded Middlebury team of Andrew Lee and Andrew Thomson, 6-2,
4-6, 6-3 in the semifinals. It marks the third time a Trinity men's
team has made it to a national doubles final.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #8
May 21-23, 2001
The doubles team of Sloan Rush and Ed Rahn of Trinity
University almost provided the Tigers with another national
championship in tennis, but came up just short, falling 6-2, 6-3 to
Derek Fitzpatrick and Nick Cunningham of the University of
California-Santa Cruz in the finals of the 2001 NCAA Division III
Men’s Doubles competition.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #7
May 22-24, 2000
Following his team's title run, Trinity University sophomore
Sloan Rush, the SCAC Men's Tennis Player-of-the-Year, came within
one win of giving the Tigers and the SCAC another
national championship, but Carnegie Mellon’s Kayvon
Fatahalian put an end to those thoughts with a 6-3, 6-4 win over
Rush in the final of the 2000 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis
Singles competition.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #6
May 23, 1995
After helping Trinity University to an eighth-place finish
in the team competition, the doubles team of Brian Bethea and Jamie
Saben make it all the way to the 1995 NCAA Division III Men’s
Tennis Doubles Championship match, but lose to Todd Born and John
Weston of the University of Redlands (Calif.), 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
The runner-up finish represents the best-ever finish for a SCAC
men's doubles team at the Championshps (since equaled).
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #5
May 19, 1999
Trinity University finishes fourth in the nation after dropping the
third place match against University of California-Santa Cruz, 6-1.
The Tigers had lost the day before to Kalamazoo (Mich.) College,
4-3, in the national semifinals. The fourth place finish
represented, at that time, the highest-ever finish for a SCAC men's
tennis team at the national championships. For the second time in
his career, Trinity head coach Butch Newman is recognized as the
ITA/Wilson Division III National Men's Tennis
Coach-of-the-Year.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #4
May 20,
2000
After defeating conference foe DePauw University, 4-0, in the
national quarterfinals, Trinity University took on the nation's
top-ranked team, the University of California-Santa Cruz, in the
semifinal round at Kalamazoo (Mich.) College.
Playing for revenge, as well as a trip to the national title match,
Trinity looked to reverse last year's decision as UC-Santa Cruz had
eliminated the Tigers in the same semifinal round in 1999. In a
match that proved to be one of the more exciting of the year,
Trinity, after falling behind 0-2, rallied to give themselves a
shot at the national title with a 4-3 win over the Banana Slugs.
With the overall match tied at 3-3, senior Jeevan Ramakrishnan won
the final point to send the Tigers to the finals.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #3
April 25, 2010
Playing in its 19th SCAC men’s tennis championship
match, top-seeded Trinity University beats second-seeded
DePauw University, 5-3, to claim its 15th SCAC championship -
the most team championships in any men's sport in the SCAC era. The
championship, which earns the Tigers' the league’s
automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis
Championship, also marks the first championship since 2006 for
Trinity.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #2
April 29,
2007
With the match tied, 4-4, DePauw University number four
singles player Bryan Heck battles to a three-set win that lifts the
eighth-ranked Tigers to a 5-4 win over seventh-ranked Trinity
University in the championship match of the 2007 SCAC Men's
Tennis Championship played in Waco, Texas. Not only does the win
provide the school with its first-ever SCAC men’s tennis
title, but it also snaps a four-year losing streak by DePauw to
Trinity in the finals and ends Trinity’s 13-year stranglehold
as conference men’s tennis champions.
MEN'S TENNIS - MOMENT #1
May 21, 2000
Playing in the national title match of the 2000 NCAA
Division III Men's Tennis Championships on the campus of Kalamazoo,
Mich., fourth-ranked Trinity University defeats Gustavus
Adolphus (Minn.) College, 4-3, to earn the program
its first-ever NCAA Division III men's team title.
After rallying to tie the match at three points apiece,
Trinity’s Ed Rahn remained on the court, needing a win at No.
4 singles to give the Tigers the title. After dropping the first
set, the junior rallied to win his individual match 3-6,
6-4, 6-3 and the celebration was on.
Trinity became the first school in Division III history to win the
men’s and women’s tennis championships in the same year
as the Trinity women knocked off the University of California-San
Diego.
For more on the top SCAC Men's Tennis moment, including
interviews with former Trinity head coach Butch Newman
(pictured above left) and former Tiger all-American
and a member of that 2000 national championship team, Jeff Mueller,
click here.
Top 20 Moments - Men's Tennis
Posted: Apr 27, 2011