(Pictured above, Radford University, left to right: Nick Malatesta, Matthew Taylor, Carly Andrasak, Sarah Chiles, Andrea Proctor, Robbie Connors, Tristan Gasque, Brian Mooney, and Kelsey Barbour)


Radford University takes home Team Sportsmanship Award at the 2010 USTA/Virginia Tennis on Campus Fall Invitational

The 5th Annual USTA/Virginia Tennis on Campus Fall Invitational took place October 16-17 at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. Sixteen schools and 22 teams were represented including 3 schools from North Carolina and one from Michigan. Over 200 participants took to the courts on Saturday to begin pool play, with 12 teams emerging as top teams in their pools. Sunday began bracket play with the top 2 teams from each pool going into the Gold bracket, the 3rd place teams from pool play going into the Silver pool and the 4th place teams into the Bronze.

NC State defeated the University of Michigan in the finals of the Gold bracket, while another University of Michigan team took the Silver bracket and Georgetown University won the Bronze bracket. Radford University was awarded the Team Sportsmanship award.

All participants received Prince t-shirts, USTA crazy bands, and a pizza lunch on Saturday. 1st and 2nd place teams in all brackets received plaques to be displayed at their University. Prince also donated prizes that were raffled off on Saturday.

We would like to thank Mary Jordan, Facility Director at Folkes-Stevens Tennis Center at Old Dominion University, for allowing us to host our tournament at the facility and for all her help throughout the weekend and Dick Cervi, for serving as head referee.

Schools participating included: NC State, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, Radford University, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Greensboro, Georgetown University, Towson University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, George Mason University, James Madison University, West Virginia University, William & Mary, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Old Dominion University.

Here’s what some of the team captains said about our tournament:

“This past weekend was one of my favorite tournaments out of the 4 years of me playing on club tennis; my JMU teammates agree as well. I love the t-shirts and the tournament seemed very efficiently run. I can't wait until the next one!” – James Madison University

“Thanks again for a really fun tournament!” – University of Maryland

“Thanks for running the tournament!  (And for having Halloween candy out for us - yum!)” – University of Virginia

“Thanks again for having us! We had a great time” – University of Michigan

“Thanks again for hosting the tournament this weekend! Our club really enjoyed playing with all the other schools. It really helped us with figuring out what we need to work on, and the potential our club has to improve” – George Mason University

“All of N.C. State loved the tournament experience and how the entire event was hosted.  The t-shirts, raffle, and pizza lunch all exceeded our expectations.  We have not seen the raffle at any other tournaments in the past year and the pizza lunch was a nice treat between matches” – NC State

“We had a great time and I felt like the tournament went really well.  First time at a tournament that I can remember where everything was right on schedule.  Great job!” – Towson University

“The tournament was great, and everyone really liked the t-shirts we got. Thanks for a great tournament!” – Virginia Commonwealth University

“I just wanted to say thank you again for putting together the ODU tournament. Radford had a great time and we look forward to the next tournament” – Radford University