Recap notes & Glances ahead

....In my opinion a GOOD start to the 2014 season! Elmhurst and Monmouth are both good teams. Coe played very proficiently in the morning, and both matches gave the coaches some excellent ideas on how we can improve before we face the good teams and great teams on our schedule.

.....speaking of upcoming good teams; another one comes to the RC on Saturday. University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. Experienced, talented and well-coached, the Eagles will give us a test on how much we can improve in one week.

.....the evening match will be against Cornell College, a Bremner Cup match. The Bremner Cup is named after long time Coe AND Cornell coach, athletic director, and vice-president Barron Bremner.
For only the 2nd year in history, Coe and Cornell are not in the same Athletic Conferences, so the BC is designed to carry on the athletic rivalry between the two schools. The Cup is knotted up at 6 wins apiece going into Saturday evening's match.

.....judging from the weekend results, the Central Region has improved considerably with all of the nationally ranked schools competing as well as the majority of the regionally ranked squads. WashU bested both Gustavus and Whitewater 6-3, Kenyon, Chicago and Case also got their seasons underway. Coe will play all of the above nationally ranked schools except Kenyon this Spring.

.....the Spring portion of  Women's Tennis gets underway at 330pm today. Eleven players strong, the Ladies look for continuation of their Fall success. They travel to Wheaton, Illinois on the 22nd for matches with Wheaton College and Calvin College.

.....former Kohawks in the college coaching ranks made the news recently: 1990 grad Malcolm Gilreath is at University of South Dakota and was featured in a column on Tennis Recruiting

  http://www.tennisrecruiting.net/article.asp?id=1838

1998 alum and longtime Coe Assistant Mark Murphy, now in his 5th year at Kalamazoo College, saw his team open what they hope to be a championship season with an upset win over Ohio Northern

 http://hornets.kzoo.edu/sports/wten/2013-14/releases/2014020878mmzm

Finally, I am very pleased to announce that 30 Kohawks will be headed for the Orlando, Florida area in just 18 days. This is one year you will not hear me grumble about how early the Coe Spring Break occurs!