RADIO / TV ROSTER Lucas Maxime Ben Connor Bryce Reid Austin BELLAMY CRESSY GOLDBERG HANCE PEREIRA PONDER Rapp 6-2/Fr. 6-7/Jr. 6-0/So. 5-10/Fr. 6-0/Fr. 5-9/R-Fr. 6-4/Sr. Los Angeles, Calif. Hermosa Beach, Calif. Pacific Palisades, Calif. Torrance, Calif. Arcadia, Calif. San Diego, Calif. Rancho Mirage, Calif. Connor Martin Reid Keegan Logan Evan RAPP REDLICKI SHUMWAY SMITH STAGGS ZHU 6-2/R-Fr. 6-5/Sr. 6-3/Jr. 6-7/Fr. 5-9/Sr. 6-0/So. Rancho Mirage, Calif. Boca Raton, Fla. Pacific Palisades, Calif. San Diego, Calif. Tracy, Calif. Irvine, Calif. Billy Grant Rikus Max Revanth Sage MARTIN CHEN de Villiers HAMMER YAMANI MILLER Head Coach Associate Head Coach Volunteer Assistant Coach Director of Operations Team Manager Equipment Manager 2 ROSTERS / TEAM PHOTO ALPHABETICAL ROSTER TEAM STAFF Name Ht. Yr. Hometown (High School/College) Head Coach: Billy Martin (25th Year, Redlands, ‘89) Lucas Bellamy 6-2 Fr. Los Angeles, Calif. (Palisades Charter HS) Associate Head Coach: Grant Chen (3rd Year, UCLA, ‘06) Maxime Cressy 6-7 Jr. Hermosa Beach, Calif. (CNED) Volunteer Asst. Coach: Rikus de Villiers (5th Year, Fresno Ben Goldberg 6-0 So. Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Palisades HS) State, ‘11) Connor Hance 5-10 Fr. Torrance, Calif. (Palos Verdes Peninsula HS) Director of Operations: Max Hammer Bryce Pereira 6-0 Fr. Arcadia, Calif. (San Marino HS) Team Manager: Revanth Yamani Reid Ponder 5-9 R-Fr. San Diego, Calif. (Canyon Crest Academy) Equipment Manager: Sage Miller Austin Rapp 6-4 Sr. Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Palm Desert HS) Staff Athletic Trainer: Ariel Guldstrand Connor Rapp 6-2 R-Fr. Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Palm Desert HS) Martin Redlicki 6-5 Sr. Boca Raton, Fla. (Lake Zurich HS) ROSTER BREAKDOWN Reid Shumway 6-3 Jr. Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Loyola HS) Height Hance, Pereira, Ponder, C. Rapp, Ponder Keegan Smith 6-7 Fr. San Diego, Calif. (Point Loma HS) 6-7 .......................... Cressy Logan Staggs 5-9 Sr. Tracy, Calif. (Kimball HS) ..................................Smith Sophomores (2): Goldberg, Evan Zhu 6-0 So. Irvine, Calif. (K12 Online) 6-5 .........................Redlicki Zhu 6-4 .........................A. Rapp Juniors (2): Cressy, Shumway 6-3 ......................Shumway 6-2 .........................Bellamy Seniors (3): A. Rapp, Redlicki, ...............................C. Rapp Staggs 6-0 .......................Goldberg ................................Pereira State .....................................Zhu California (12): Bellamy, 5-10 .........................Hance Cressy, Goldberg, Hance, 5-9 ..........................Ponder Pereira, Ponder, A. Rapp, ................................ Staggs C. Rapp, Shumway, Smith, Staggs, Zhu Class Florida (1): Redlicki Freshmen (6): Bellamy, PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Evan Zhu ................................................................JOO Top row (left to right):Connor Hance, Reid Shumway, Evan Zhu, Keegan Smith, Lucas Bellamy, Bryce Pereira, Reid Ponder. Middle row (left to right): Connor Rapp, Maxime Cressy, Martin Redlicki, Austin Rapp, Ben Goldberg, Logan Staggs. Front row (left to right): equipment manager Sage Miller, volunteer assistant coach Rikus de Villiers, head coach Billy Martin, associate head coach Grant Chen, director of operations Max Hammer, team manager Revanth Yamani. 3 COACHING STAFF Open and Junior Orange Bowl tournaments. Inside Tennis Magazine recently ran an article BILLY that named him “Junior Player of the Century.” Due to his tremendous success as a junior player while growing up in Illinois, Martin was inducted into the USTA Midwest Section Hall MARTIN of Fame in December of 2010. He was also inducted into the Southern California Tennis Association Hall of Fame in August of 2011. Head Coach Although Martin played just one season at UCLA before turning pro, the 1975 season was 25th Season a special one, as he guided the team to a perfect 19-0 dual-match record en route to an NCAA team championship during his freshman year. Redlands ‘89 After capturing the 1975 NCAA singles championship, Martin turned professional and enjoyed a fine career. He reached the Wimbledon singles quarterfinals in 1977 and was selected Rookie of the Year in his first professional season. Martin defeated top pros such as Ken Rosewall (twice), Stan Smith, John Newcombe, Roscoe Tanner and Harold Soloman. In 1975 he won the Arkansas International singles Head coach Billy Martin, who is in his 25th year as head coach of the UCLA Bruins, takes title. He also won doubles championships in 1977, ‘79 and ‘81 in Laguna Niguel, CA, an overall record of 546-117 (.824) into the 2018 season. This year marks Martin’s 35th Brussels, Belgium and Bristol, England, respectively. on staff, as he served as an assistant coach for 10 years prior to taking over for Glenn Bassett in 1994. He is only the fourth head coach in UCLA tennis history, following legends Martin attended UCLA for three years, working on his undergraduate studies before Bill Ackerman (1921-50), J.D. Morgan (1951-66) and Bassett (1967-93). Only three active completing his bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Redlands coaches at UCLA have served longer at their current positions, as Martin follows Cyndi in 1989. He earned his MBA from USC in 1991. Gallagher (women’s swimming - 30 years) and Valorie Kondos Field (women’s gymnastics During the summer, Martin runs the Bassett-Martin Tennis Camp, one of the country’s - 28 years). Perhaps the most amazing accomplishment in Martin’s career is his ability to most successful camps for youngsters. Martin also directs the UCLA Summer Tennis contend for a championship each and every year, as only twice has he had a team finish Camps held on the UCLA campus. out of the top 5 at the season-ending NCAA Championships. Martin and his wife, Justine, have two children, William and Travis. William played college Martin’s finest season at UCLA came in 2005 when he led the squad to its first NCAA tennis at St. Mary’s, while Travis played at UCLA. title since 1984. UCLA’s 4-3 come-from-behind victory over top-seeded and undefeated Baylor that year marked the Bruins’ 16th NCAA Championship in men’s tennis and the Career Coaching Record school’s 97th NCAA title overall. The win snapped Baylor’s 57-match winning streak, the Year Overall Record Conf. Record/Finish NCAA Finish second longest in NCAA history. It also avenged the team’s 4-0 loss to the Bears in the 2004 NCAA Final. 1994 22-6 7-3/3rd NCAA Semifinals 1995 19-6 7-3/3rd NCAA Semifinals In addition to the team’s dramatic run to the title in 2005, Martin has had several near 1996 27-1 10-0/1st NCAA Runner-Up misses at the NCAA Championships, including 2013 when the top-seeded Bruins were 1997 25-4 9-1/T-1st NCAA Semifinals narrowly edged by No. 2 Virginia, 4-3 in the championship match in Champaign, Ill. Under 1998 17-8 5-2/T-2nd NCAA Quarterfinals Martin, UCLA has reached the NCAA Final on three other occasions (1996, 1999 and 2004). After reaching the final in just his third year as head coach, Martin was named the 1999 26-3 6-1/T-1st NCAA Runner-Up 1996 ITA National Coach of the Year, as the Bruins finished with a 27-1 overall record. 2000 24-4 6-1/2nd NCAA Quarterfinals 2001 23-3 6-1/2nd NCAA Quarterfinals Another significant highlight in Martin’s career is his outstanding success in the highly- 2002 23-5 6-1/1st NCAA Semifinals competitive Pac-12 Conference, where he owns a 149-27 (.847) record. Martin, the 2014 2003 24-4 6-1/2nd NCAA Semifinals Pac-12 Coach of the Year after leading UCLA to the Pac-12 Tournament title, has been named the Conference’s coach of the year four times (1996, 2012, 2013 and 2014). 2004 23-6 6-1/T-1st NCAA Runner-Up Under Martin’s direction, UCLA has captured 13 conference titles, including four in a row 2005 27-3 6-1/T-1st NCAA Champion from 2004-07. UCLA has never finished out of the top 3 in the Pac-12 standings during 2006 20-6 6-1/T-1st NCAA Quarterfinals Martin’s tenure. 2007 22-4 7-0/1st NCAA Quarterfinals 2008 23-4 5-2/T-2nd NCAA Semifinals In addition to his numerous team accomplishments, Martin takes great pride in helping his players achieve their individual goals as well. In 2006, he helped Benjamin Kohlloeffel 2009 21-5 6-0/1st NCAA Semifinals become the 10th player in school history to capture the NCAA Singles Championship. 2010 17-7 4-2/3rd NCAA Quarterfinals Kohlloeffel notched a straight-set win over Virginia’s Somdev Devvarman in the title match 2011 18-7 3-3/T-3rd NCAA Round of 16 that year, becoming the first Bruin player since Martin in 1975 to win the title. Kohlloeffel’s 2012 26-4 7-0/1st NCAA Semifinals victory put his coach in an elite category, as Martin joined Georgia’s Manny Diaz as the 2013 29-2 7-0/1st NCAA Runner-Up only other active head coach to earn the career “triple crown” by leading their schools to 2014 26-4 6-1/2nd NCAA Semifinals three different titles at the NCAA Championships (team, singles and doubles). In 2014, 2015 17-10 6-1/T-3rd NCAA Round of 16 Martin helped Marcos Giron become the school’s 11th NCAA Singles Champion when Giron 2016 25-3 7-0/1st NCAA Quarterfinals downed Pepperdine’s Alex Sarkissian in straight sets in the 2014 championship match in 2017 22-6 6-0/1st NCAA Quarterfinals Athens, Ga. Last season, Martin coached three-time All-American Mackenzie McDonald Totals (24 yrs) 546-117 149-27 24 NCAA Appearances to the NCAA Singles crown.