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THE UTAH EXPERIENCE Roster Breakdown Alphabe cal Roster By Class By State/Country Name Ht. Yr. Exp. Hometown Previous School Seniors (2) United States (5) Caleb Brand 6-4 FR HS Salt Lake City BYU-Hawaii Ma Cowley Ma Cowley - Utah Ma Cowley 5-11 SR 3VL Salt Lake City Woods Cross High School Jamey Swiggart Parker McGuiness - Texas Azat Hankuliyev 6-2 FR HS Salt Lake City American Preparatory Academy Johan Jonhagen 5-10 SO 1L Stockholm, Sweden Blackebergs Gymnasium Jamey Swiggart - Colorado Juniors (1) Dan Li le 6-2 FR HS London, England Ralph Allen School Parker McGuiness Azat Hankuliyev - Utah Freddie McGeehan 6-2 SO 1L London, England Reeds School Caleb Brand - Utah Parker McGuiness 6-1 JR 1L McKinney, Texas North Carolina State Sophomores (4) David Micevski 6-2 FR HS Skopje, Macedonia Johan Jonhagen Interna onal (7) San ago Sierra 5-11 SO 1L Mexico City, Mexico Ka a High School San ago Sierra Johan Jonhagen - Sweden Jamey Swiggart 6-1 SR 1L Steamboat Springs, Colo. Idaho State University Freddie McGeehan Egbert Weverink 6-8 SO TR Amsterdam, the Netherlands Mississippi State University Freddie McGeehan - England Egbert Weverink Joe Woolley 6-3 FR HS Boston, England William Lovell Church of England Academy San ago Sierra - Mexico Head Coach: Roeland Brateanu (Utah, ‘04) - 2nd season Freshmen (5) Egbert Weverink - Assistant Coach: Daniel Pollock (Hawaii at Hilo, ‘07) - 2nd season Dan Li le The Netherlands Season Volunteer Assistant: Graeme Cox - 15th season Joe Woolley Dan Li le - England Azat Hankuliyev Joe Woolley - England David Micevski David Micevski - Macedonia Caleb Brand Pronuncia on Guide David Micevski . Mi-Chef-Ski Johan Jonhagen . Yo-HAWN Yawn-HA-gen MATT AZAT JOHAN DAN FREDDIE Freddie McGeehan . Mik-GEE-n COWLEY HANKULIYEV JONHAGEN LITTLE MCGEEHAN San ago Sierra . .Sahn-tea-AH-go SEA-era Azat Hankuliyev. A-din tass-eh-VAK Roeland Brateanu . .ROW-lind Brah-TEA-ah-new PARKER SANTIAGO JAMEY EGBERT JOE MCGUINESS SIERRA SWIGGART WEVERINK WOOLLEY WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 1 THE UTAH EXPERIENCE SEPTEMBER QUICK FACTS 18-20 Bobcat Invite Bozeman, Mont. All Day Loca on ..........................................................................Salt Lake City 25-27 Utah Intercollegiate Tournament Salt Lake City All Day Metro Popula on ..................................................... 1,333,914 (36th) Eleva on ....................................................4,657 feet above sea level OCTOBER President .......................................................David W. Pershing, Ph.D 3-5 ITA All-American Tulsa, Okla. All Day Director of Athle cs .................................................... Chris Hill, Ph.D 9-11 Idaho State Invita onal Pocatello, Idaho All Day Founded ......................................................................................1850 21-25 ITA Mountain Regional Championships Albuquerque, N.M. All Day Enrollment ................................................................................32,077 Conference ............................................................................... Pac-12 Affi lia on .................................................................... NCAA Division I JANUARY Colors ................................................................... Crimson and White 15 vs. San Francisco Honolulu, Hawaii 11 a.m. HT Nickname .....................................................................................Utes 17 at Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 12 p.m. HT Mascot .....................................................“Swoop” (Red-Tailed Hawk) 18 vs. Sacramento State Honolulu, Hawaii 11 a.m. HT Tennis Facility ......................................... Eccles Tennis Center (1,500) 24 vs. Nevada Salt Lake City 10 a.m. MT Website ...............................................................www.UtahUtes.com vs. Idaho State Salt Lake City 3 p.m. MT 30 vs. Northern Arizona Salt Lake City 12 p.m. MT CONTACT US vs. Weber State Salt Lake City 5 p.m. MT Athle cs Departement ............................................... (801) 581-8171 FEBRUARY Sports Informa on ............................................(801) 581-3511/3510 Ticket Offi ce ......................................................(801) 581-UTIX (8849) 6 vs. Montana Salt Lake City 12 p.m. MT vs. Montana State Salt Lake City 5 p.m. MT Eccles Tennis Center ................................................... (801) 581-7075 12 vs. Boise State Salt Lake City 5 p.m. MT 13 vs. South Alabama Salt Lake City 2 p.m. MT FOLLOW UTAH MEN’S TENNIS 20 vs. BYU Salt Lake City 2 p.m. MT Website ............................................................. utahmenstennis.com 26 at New Mexico Albuquerque, N.M. 6 p.m. MT Instagram ...................................................instagram.com/utahtennis 27 vs. DePaul Albuquerque, N.M. 11 a.m. MT Twi er ........................................................twi er.com/utahathle cs vs. New Mexico State Albuquerque, N.M. 4 p.m. MT twi er.com/utahTennis Facebook ..................................................... facebook.com/uathle cs MARCH facebook.com/utahmenstennis 4 at Denver Denver, Colo. 1 p.m. MT 5 vs. Penn Denver, Colo. 1 p.m. MT COMMUNICATIONS STAFF 18 vs. UNLV Salt Lake City 2 p.m. MT 19 vs. Loyola Marymount Salt Lake City 2 p.m. MT Sr. Associate AD/Director ........................................................Liz Abel 25 vs. California * Salt Lake City 3 p.m. MT Associate Comm. Director .......................................... Drew Wiseman 27 vs. Stanford * Salt Lake City 12 p.m. MT Associate Comm. Director ...............................................Mike DeVine Assistant Comm. Director ...................................Brooke Frederickson Assistant Comm. Director ........................................... Dameon Myres APRIL Special Projects Coord. ............................................Mike Lageschulte 1 at Washington * Sea le, Wash. 5 p.m. PT Administra ve Assistant ............................................... Lynde Hoopes 3 at Oregon * Eugene, Ore. 12 p.m. PT Utah Men’s Tennis Contact ................................... Dominic Nguyen 8 vs. USC * Salt Lake City 4 p.m. MT 801.413.4434 [email protected] 10 vs. UCLA * Salt Lake City 12 p.m. MT 17 at Arizona * Tucson, Ariz. 11 a.m. MT The 2015-16 University of Utah Men’s Tennis media guide is a 20-24 Pac-12 Championships Ojai, Calif. TBA product of the Utah Communica ons offi ce. Wri ng, design and layout by Emily Radivoyevich, Athle c Communica ons Assistant. * = Pac-12 Conference Match Editorial assistance provided by the Communica ons staff . 2 201516 MEDIA GUIDE THE UTAH EXPERIENCE With a successful fall season at their backs, the University of Utah men’s tennis team looks “Our overall goal will be to make the NCAA Championships. The program hasn’t been there forward to a promising but challenging 2016. The Utes lost leadership and experience in Slim in 19 years and that’s our major goal. The way our conference is laid out and how strong it is, Hamza, Cedric Willems, and Jus n Archer but head coach Roeland Brateanu is confi dent in the we have to earn it in the fi rst 19 matches. We’d like to be 19-0 before we head into conference young talent on the team. play but that will be one heck of a task.” “The guys that are returning have taken steps forward and it’s exci ng to see their Redshirt sophomore captain Egbert Weverink brings experience and talent to this team. progression. We lost our top two guys in Slim and Cedric and that’s a big loss. We’ve added A er playing for a top-10 team, he brings his talents to the Utes and adds depth and a nice group of talented young guys. But we’re really young so we are going to see those ups leadership to this team. and downs a li le bit more. The progression is nice but we s ll have a lot of work to do.” Freshman Dan Li le has been a posi ve surprise for the program and coaching staff . Hamza will actually provide a spark this year for the Utes, just not as a player. Brateanu brought Hamza back as a coach for the fall season and has had nothing but high praise for the “Dan Li le coming in and being as dominant as he’s been from the start has been former Ute. surprising. Dan is going to be a great player for us and we knew that when we were recrui ng him. But for him to reach the fi nals of ITA Regionals and go 13-2 in the fall, has been more “Slim has been one of the best players here in decades. He is an amazing individual, an than what I’ve expected from him in his fi rst year.” incredibly hard worker and has a great personality. He has impressed me from a coaching perspec ve because he sees the game really well and he connects with the players. It’s been The Utes also got a much needed outdoor facility built in the off -season and it has been nice having him on the coaching side of things and I think it’s been eye opening to see both very advantageous for the Utah tennis teams. sides. For a guy that good as a player to be able to communicate with our players is a big “We’ve seen a 14 percent increase in the ability to prac ce outside compared to previous blessing.” years due to logis cal reasons. We’ve been outside more so that’s been a huge benefi t. We Coming off a strong fall season, the team has a lot to look forward to. now have a home court to prac ce, both inside and out. The surface is the same for both venues and like I said, it’s been a huge benefi t.” “I’ve seen that we have a talented group of guys but we s ll have a lot of work to do to be a real force in the Pac 12. We’re young and despite only a few prac ces we had a great fall with The Utes will host 15 home matches at the George S. Eccles tennis center including four fi ve singles tles and fi ve doubles tles.” Said Brateanu. “The sky’s the limit with this group of conference matches against perennial powerhouses California (March 25), Stanford (March guys but we s ll have a lot of work to do in order to reach our goals.” 27), USC (April 8), and UCLA (April 9). Coming off an 11-13 record the Utes hope to improve and make a big step that hasn’t been seen in the program in years.