11-14-2019, 12:47 PM
Since it's Signing Week in college tennis, it's a good time to check around the conference and country and see how teams are doing. While Stanford looks set to replace Arbuthnott and Higuchi with blue chip India Houghton (currently the #4 recruit nationally) and Ana Geller (Axel's little sister, who has been ranked as high as the #46 junior player in the world), things look comparatively quiet around the rest of the Pac-12.
Just one other blue chip recruit so far, and that's Vanessa Ong (usually ranked in the 5-10 range) to UCLA. USC and UW each add a 5-star player, and there are no other reported commitments or signings so far.
Nationally, 6 blue chip girls remain uncommitted, though one of those is Walnut Creek's Katie Volynets, the consensus #1 player who has long been figured to go pro. The blue chips are fairly spread around, with only UNC, Harvard, Michigan, and Tennessee scoring two of them (and aside from UNC, those count as surprises). At a conference level, the ACC has 7 blue chips, the Big 12, Big Ten, SEC, and Ivy League each have 3, and the Pac-12 and WCC each have 2.
National powers with no blue chips yet include Georgia and Duke. South Carolina, which surprised last year, also doesn't have any.
UCLA only loses one player anyway (though it's a big one in Jada Hart), so it makes sense that they're just taking one. USC loses a few players (including Kulikov and Van Alphen) this year, so expect another name or two from them. This should be a quiet recruiting year from Cal, though, since Rosenqvist and Bright will be seniors next year, and they have that trio of major contributors that are freshmen this year in Giavara, Ivanov, and Richardson.
Just one other blue chip recruit so far, and that's Vanessa Ong (usually ranked in the 5-10 range) to UCLA. USC and UW each add a 5-star player, and there are no other reported commitments or signings so far.
Nationally, 6 blue chip girls remain uncommitted, though one of those is Walnut Creek's Katie Volynets, the consensus #1 player who has long been figured to go pro. The blue chips are fairly spread around, with only UNC, Harvard, Michigan, and Tennessee scoring two of them (and aside from UNC, those count as surprises). At a conference level, the ACC has 7 blue chips, the Big 12, Big Ten, SEC, and Ivy League each have 3, and the Pac-12 and WCC each have 2.
National powers with no blue chips yet include Georgia and Duke. South Carolina, which surprised last year, also doesn't have any.
UCLA only loses one player anyway (though it's a big one in Jada Hart), so it makes sense that they're just taking one. USC loses a few players (including Kulikov and Van Alphen) this year, so expect another name or two from them. This should be a quiet recruiting year from Cal, though, since Rosenqvist and Bright will be seniors next year, and they have that trio of major contributors that are freshmen this year in Giavara, Ivanov, and Richardson.