Senior Day!!!!

Yesterday we honored our seven seniors before our home match against Pacific. To say these seniors have had an impact on Whitman and the tennis program is an understatement. They have set the bar incredibly high for any sports team at Whitman. These seven seniors have never lost a regular season conference team match (60+ and counting), have qualified for three straight NCAA III appearances, won two conference titles, been an ITA All-Academic team for three straight years and have a team GPA around a 3.5!

Below are some stats (going into the match) about the seven seniors:

Thomas Roston

Major: Bio-Chemistry, Bio-Physics, and Molecular Biology

Hometown: West Vancouver, Canada

31-4 Singles

25-3 Doubles

56-7 Overall

Thomas's winning percentage of 88% ranks #1 on the Whitman all-time list

Thomas is looking to attend medical school

David Deming

Major: Economics

Hometown: Brush Prairie, WA

39-10 Singles

22-4 Doubles

61-44 Overall

David's 81% winning percentage is #2 on Whitman's all-time list

David is currently applying to Law school

Jasper Follows

Major: French

Hometown: West Vancouver, Canada

24-13 Singles

41-13 Doubles

65-26 Overall

Played in the 2008 NCAA III team tournament

Jasper is hoping to attend Dental School in Canada

Nadeem Kassam

Major: Economics

Hometown: West Vancouver, Canada

29-15 Singles

44-27 Doubles

73-42 Overall

Played in the 2009 NCAA III team tournament

Jake Cappel

Major: Economics

Hometown: Chicago, IL

51-20 Singles

35-24 Doubles

86-44 Overall

Ranks 7th on singles wins

Ranks 11th in overall wins

Played in the 2009, 2008, 2007 NCAA team tournament

2nd team all-conference 2009, 2008

Christoph Fuchs

Major: Biology

Hometown: La Center, WA

40-20 singles

54-26 Doubles

94-46 Overall

Ranks 7th in doubles wins

Ranks 8th in overall wins

Played in the NCAA team tournament 2009, 2007

Inducted in Phi Beta Kappa

ESPN Academic All-American

Attending Baylor College of Medicine in the fall.

Matt Solomon

Major: Economics

Hometown: Los Gatos, CA

61-35 Singles

61-33 Doubles

122-68 Overall

Ranks 5th in singles wins

Ranks 6th in doubles wins

Tied 5th in overall wins

2007 2nd team All-Conference

2008 Conference Player of the Year

3 time All-American in singles

3 time All-American in doubles

Recently accepted a position with IMG.

Obviously these seven have been instrumental in our success the past four years. We will all be sad to see them leave, but they will always be apart of our family.

To honor the seniors they made up the singles line-up against Pacific (except Jake who couldn't play so he helped coach). The seniors played "Senior Day" with energy, passion, skill and did not drop a set to Pacific.

Whitman 9 Pacific 0

We take to the courts at 1pm today to face Linfield. Should be a competitive match today as Linfield is currently in 2nd place in the conference standings. We beat them earlier in the year 7-2 in McMinnville, OR but they were missing one of their key players. It should be a good match today.