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Women's Tennis 2026-2027 - Lorcan - 08-25-2026
It's about time to start a new thread - as there's some surprising - or perhaps not surprising news for the tennis team. Alexis Blokhina is on the roster, and making her return to collegiate tennis after a brief stint as a pro. That's monumental news as we look to build a team that can be a contender. Preseason rankings have dropped, and we have six players ranked:
#18 Valerie Glozman
#19 Monika Ekstrand
#29 Alyssa Ahn
#87 Alexis Blokhina
#119 Tianmei Wang
#123 Katerina Shabashkevich (#6 Freshman per TRN and a Blue Chip, #18 newcomer)
In doubles, we have
#21 Blokhina/Glozman
#81 Ahn/Wang
If we're able to be healthy this year, we should be able to surprise some teams with Sein Myoung and Kaia Giribalan providing some depth on top of our top 6 - a nice change from past seasons where we had Emma Sun or Morgan Shaffer to turn to if someone was injured.
In looking at the rankings, there are definitely some stacked teams if people are healthy.
Ohio State is absolutely loaded with a top four of #3 Luciana Perry, #4 Teah Chavez, #37 Sophia Cisse-Ignatiev, and #39 Nao Nishino and a fifth in the top 120. Duke has picked up two highly touted freshmen in Nina Vargova and Mimi Xu - and should be a tough out for any team. I'll be curious to see how things begin to shake out in the coming weeks as we learn more.
ITA All American Championships will kick off the season on September 19-27th - with multiple individual championships to follow this fall. We likely won't see the team play together likely until the winter for ITA Kickoff Weekend where we have elected to go to a tough regional with #16 Vanderbilt, #19 Tennessee, #28 Stanford, and #33 Arizona. That's almost as tough as the teams going to #13 USC with #17 ASU, #18 Florida, and #25 Clemson going there, and #15 UCLA getting #20 UCF, #21 TCU, and #22 Cal. By contrast - NOBODY wanted to go to #9 Pepperdine with their highest competition being #49 North Florida.
RE: Women's Tennis 2026-2027 - M T - 08-25-2026
Personally, I am uncomfortable about a former professional athlete competing as a college athlete in that same sport, whether that sport be golf or basketball.
RE: Women's Tennis 2026-2027 - 82lsju - 08-25-2026
(08-25-2026, 05:56 PM)M T Wrote: Personally, I am uncomfortable about a former professional athlete competing as a college athlete in that same sport, whether that sport be golf or basketball.
or football
Quote:The Cleveland Browns waived tight end Dae'Quan Wright, who has an agreement in place for the 2026 season to play for LSU if he clears waivers, agents Drew Rosenhaus and Kyle Lincoln told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Sunday.
Wright is believed to be the first player to have an agreement to return to play in college after signing with an NFL team as an undrafted free agent. He signed with the Philadelphia Eagles after the draft and then was claimed on waivers by the Browns on Aug. 11.
He didn't appear in either of Cleveland's first two preseason games. Wright hasn't practiced in more than a week, but he dressed for the Browns' second preseason game against the Buffalo Bills on Saturday. Browns coach Todd Monken said Wright has been sidelined because of an injury.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49705433/agents-daequan-wright-waived-browns-set-join-lsu
RE: Women's Tennis 2026-2027 - M T - 08-25-2026
(08-25-2026, 06:42 PM)82lsju Wrote:(08-25-2026, 05:56 PM)M T Wrote:(08-25-2026, 04:28 PM)Lorcan Wrote: Alexis Blokhina is on the roster, and making her return to collegiate tennis after a brief stint as a pro.Personally, I am uncomfortable about a former professional athlete competing as a college athlete in that same sport, whether that sport be [edit: golf] tennis or basketball.
or football
Quote:....
Wright is believed to be the first player to have an agreement to return to play in college after signing with an NFL team as an undrafted free agent. He signed with the Philadelphia Eagles after the draft and then was claimed on waivers by the Browns on Aug. 11.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49705433/agents-daequan-wright-waived-browns-set-join-lsu
That would be LSU .... but not so fast...
SEC joins Big Ten in banning pros from returning to college, includes basketball players
Quote:The Southeastern Conference passed a rule Tuesday banning players who have been drafted by NFL, NBA or WNBA teams or listed on rosters in those leagues, joining the Big Ten in taking a strong stand against this month’s unexpected surge of pro players trying to return to college.