University of Texas at Dallas Athletics

2007 TENNIS SEASON NEWS

>>ASC INDIVIDUAL FALL TOURNAMENT
UTD Netters Battle at ASC Championships

ABILENE, TX - Selected members of the UTD tennis team are competing this weekend at the American Southwest Conference Individual Championship Tournament.


>>2007 ASC ALL-EAST DIVISION
Waterson Named ASC East Freshman of Year

RICHARDSON, TX - UTD freshman tennis player James Waterson, Jr., was named the American Southwest Conference East Division Newcomer of the Year and Comets tennis coach Bryan Whitt was voted East Division Coach of the Year in the annual end-of-season all-conference awards announced earlier this week.
Waterson, a freshman from Houston, took over playing the Comets' No. 1 singles position midway through the season on a team that advanced to the finals of the ASC Championship Tournament. He was a first-team All-ASC East Division selection as well, along with teammates Donald Kasitinon, freshman from Lewisville; freshman Matt Volschenk of Austin and sophomore Kevin Yarnall of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Kyle Faber, a freshman from Arlington, was a second-team selection.
On the women's side, freshman Savanah Matlock of San Antonio won second-team recognition while sophomore Sylvia Brownfield of Tomball received honorable mention recognition.
Whitt has now won the Coach of the Year recognition for three straight seasons, including one at the University of Texas at Tyler.


>>04.28.07
UTD Edges Mississippi To Advance To
ASC Finals Before Falling To Cowboys

ABILENE, TX - The UTD men's tennis team slipped past Mississippi College, 5-4, in the Friday semifinals of the American Southwest Conference Team Championship Tournament, but fell 5-1 to the host Hardin-Simmons Cowboys Saturday afternoon. The UTD team of Kevin Yarnall and Kyle Faber picked up a crucial doubles win in a tiebreaker to claim the Friday semifinal victory, but were the only team or individual to pick up a win in the Saturday finals before the match was decided.