Beep Test #3 Results

Results of beep test #3
Adriel 18.5 - 1
Christoph 17.5 - 1
Thomas 19.5 - 1
ET 17.5 - 1
Quin 19.5 -1
Dan 18 -3
Matt 17.5 - 3
Stefan 19 - 1
Reid 18 - 3
Conor 19.5 - 2

Boise State Results

OK I'm a bit behind with this post but two weekends ago 4 brave Whitties travel to Boise to participant in the Bronco Fall Tournament. This is mostly a DI tournament with some open players. In fact we were the only non-scholarship school at the tournament. I wasn't at the tournament but the guys all mentioned they loved playing the tournament and thought the played well.

Chris Bailey had a rough first match losing to Boise State sophomore Stefan Simikic 6-1, 6-1. Stefan was one of the top Southern CA junior players and was a HS All-American before arriving at Boise State.

Etienne Moshevich is still nursing a sore shoulder that kept him out last Spring. In his first match he defeated Brandon Nielsen of Utah State 6-4, 6-0. In the second round he lost a tough 6-3, 6-3 match to the #10 seed Jakub Asplund (#1 for Utah State). ET says he played a great match and had several break opportunities in each set. Jakub ended up making the semi's before losing to Idaho's #1 player in 3 long sets.

Nadeem Kassam won his first match 6-3, 6-2 against Paulo Miranda. Paulo was recently a standout tennis player at Idaho. Nadeem then lost a tight 6-3, 6-4 match to the #5 seed Hodel of Boise State.

Matt Solomon opened a few eyes with his strong play. In the first round he defeated Micheal Banks of Utah State 6-4, 6-3. In the round of 32 Matt pulled off one of the big upsets of the tournament knocking off the #8 seed Blaine Shields of BSU 7-5, 6-2. Blaine played 3 years of tennis at Santa Clara before transferring to BSU. This year he is expected to play in the Bronco top 6. In the round of 16 Matt continued his winning ways defeating the #13 seed P. Turzanski (#1 from Montana State). In the QTRS Matt's Cinderella story came to a close as he lost 6-3, 6-1 to the #2 seed (and eventual champion) Keen Feeder of Boise State.

Beep Test Round Two

I was asked by several people last week about the beep test. Basically it is a series of 20 meter runs done to a set of "beeps". Between each set of 20 meter runs there is a 5 sec recovery period. Participants go until they have 2 misses or quit. The higher the number the longer they lasted. It is the most demanding fitness test I have seen.

If you want more information on the test click here

To be honest the real reason I'm putting the results on my blog is so I can go back and find past scores.

Thomas 18.5-5
Christoph 16.5-1
Conor 19.5 - 3
Adriel 19.5 - 5
Etienne 18-5
Matt F 17.5 - 3
Matt S 18.5 - 3
Stefan 18 - 2
Reid 17.5 - 6
Dan 18.5 - 3
Nadeem 18 - 3
Chris 16.5 - 5
Quin 19 - 4

And we are off!

Today was one of the BEST days of the year -- start of the tennis season! As I told the team today "behind the opening of fishing season it is one of my favorite days of the year".

Team captains for the year (based on team voting):
Justin Hayashi
Matt Solomon
Christoph Fuchs

Alumni will be happy to know we ran the beep test. Here are the results:
Thomas 18 - 2
Christoph 18 - 2
Adriel 19 - 1
Etienne 17.5-2
Matt F 17-2
Matt S 17.5-5
Conor 17.5-3
Stefan 17-6
Reid 16.5-6
Dan 19-1
Nadeem 16.5 - 6
Chris 17.5-1

ITA All-AcademicTeam!

Opening weekend at Whitman so I figured it was time for a blog post.

With the opening of the academic year I would like to point out that the 2007-2008 Whitman Men's tennis team was named as an ITA All-Academic team. This is the 9th time in the past 10 years that the team has had over a 3.2 GPA. The following Whitman players were named as ITA Scholar-Athletes (varsity letter winner and GPA over 3.5)

Chris Bailey
Christoph Fuchs
Justin Hayashi
Robert Rye
Matt Solomon
Dan Wilson

Click here for the ITA Awards