College Sports Recruiting Blog

Why Doing Research About Colleges Increases Your College Experience - Friday's Scholarship Guide

Doing research about colleges gives you an important idea about where you could see yourself taking your bachelor's degree. This week's Friday's Scholarship Guide will be about why and how to best compare colleges, including two website suggestions, which will make your search a fun and entertaining activity.

Dominic Tinodi

2015-01-01

Top 4 Reasons College Tennis is the Best Choice for Aspiring Professionals

College tennis has long been an attractive option for American tennis players. Yet, not all choose college, but instead try to turn pro right away. That's even more the case for international tennis players, who bet all on their sport after high school graduation or sometimes even before that, neglecting their education. In this week's Friday's Scholarship Guide we will take a closer look at why and how college tennis is probably the best choice you can make!

Dominic Tinodi

2015-01-08

ITA #5 Sebastian Stiefelmeyer: 5 Things I Love About College Tennis

We're extremely happy to have one of the currently best college tennis players give us his personal Top 5 reasons why he loves college tennis in today's Friday Scholarship Guide. You'll see that the team spirit and the mere fact of being part of a team in an individual sport like tennis have played a major role for Sebastian.

Dominic Tinodi

2015-02-26

A typical day of a college tennis player

This week's Scholarship Guide will give you some insights into the daily routine of a student athlete. To be more specific - of a college tennis player. Having been a college tennis player myself at one of the United States' top universities for four years, I will show you what it's like, being a student athlete.

Yannick Weihs

2015-04-09

What's happening in college tennis

Two interesting headlines have appeared in the college tennis world recently, which we'd love to share with our readership! Firstly, there are excellent opportunities to watch first-class NCAA D-1 tennis either on national TV or online right now, from April 16 - April 26, 2015. And secondly, the Big 12 conference, featuring some of the strongest of all college athletes, changed its rules about fan behavior quite a bit. You should read on, as they create an atmosphere on the court, which you simply do not know from pro tennis matches.

Dominic Tinodi

2015-04-15

College Tennis Videos

In the last edition of our weekly Friday Scholarship Guide we highlighted the wonderful opportunity of watching college tennis action online. This week we'd like to give you some suggestions of another type of college tennis video impressions.

Dominic Tinodi

2015-04-23

I never thought I was gonna be #1 in the nation!

Sebastian Stiefelmeyer was one of 5 players who was at the top of the ITA NCAA-DI ranking during the 2014/2015 season. Since Sebastian's first appearance as #1 of the nation in January this year, he was consistently within the Top 8 of the ranking. His last appearance as a college player is the NCAA Tennis Singles Championship from May 20 to May 25, 2015. Read our extensive interview with him about his experience as a college tennis player, what he will remember the most, and why he recommends young fellow tennis players to get an education at college and play for a team.

Dominic Tinodi

2015-05-21

The Elimination of Collegiate Tennis Programs: UMBC Tennis

College tennis supporters have to accept - tennis is a sport in constant competition with other collegiate sports programs. While new tennis programs pop up and others are being reinstated, some schools decide to discontinue their tennis programs and tennis legacies die. Today's article by a former collegiate tennis player is about the elimination of the tennis program, which he was part of years ago.

Mehrban Iranshad

2016-08-13

When You Play College Tennis It's All About The Team

Stephanie Hirsch just graduated from the University of Indianapolis after having been part of the women's team for the last 4 years. She leaves with the best win percentage ever recorded by a Greyhound. We got the chance to speak with her just weeks after her return to Europe. Read our extensive interview about her experience as a college tennis player, what she will remember the most, and why she recommends young fellow tennis players to get an education at college and play for a team.

Dominic Tinodi

2017-06-29

Summer Break in the Life of a Student Athlete

End of May and while some athletes still compete for a National Title on the NCAA D1 level, others have arrived at home by now. Reason enough to have a look at what happens in the life of student athletes after finals are in the books and the academic year is completed. This edition of the Friday Scholarship Guide will be all about the typical activities, student athletes spend their time on in the summer break, prior to eventually heading back to their dorm rooms.

Dominic Tinodi

2018-05-24