05-21-2019, 01:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-21-2019, 01:49 PM by ColoradoTree.)
Some stats from the official team write-up that caught my eye:
* Lele Forood gets her 10th national championship in 19 seasons, tying her with the great Frank Brennan.
* She has a career 466-44 record across those 19 seasons, for a .914 winning percentage. Her average season is 25-2.
* In her head coaching career (started in 2000-01), every single class has won at least one national title. Every single one. The last Stanford women's tennis class to finish without a NCAA championship graduated in 1996, when Lele was an assistant coach.
If you haven't read this piece about the women's tennis program from a couple years' back, focusing on Lele Forood and Frankie Brennan, you should: https://stanford_ftp.sidearmsports.com/c...index.html
It's not in the official write-up, but here are some other ridiculous stats:
* Stanford has never failed to advance past the regional stage.
* Stanford has never failed to reach the final site.
* Lele has a 155-12 record (.928) in Pac-10/12 play as a head coach.
* In her 19 seasons, Stanford has gone undefeated in conference play 12 times, including the last three seasons. Her worst conference record is 7-3 in 2015.
* Arguably her two worst seasons were 2009 (19-5, 6-2 Pac-10), when Stanford lost in the Round of 16 (our earliest exit ever) and 2015 (18-6, 7-3 Pac-12), when Stanford lost in the NCAA quarterfinals. She followed up both of those seasons with NCAA championships.
* She was the first woman to win a NCAA tennis championship as a head coach. She was joined by UCLA's Stella Sampras Webster in 2008, and they remain the only two women to win a NCAA championship as a head coach. (I think more programs are hiring women to coach women's tennis teams when there is a changing of the guard. Not a lot of turnover--if someone is good and the program is stable, you don't see a lot of calls to fire the women's tennis coach. UNC's coach has been there 16 years. Florida's coach has been there for 18. Duke's coach has been there 22. Vanderbilt's has been there 25. Georgia's Jeff Wallace has been there 34 years!)
* Lele Forood gets her 10th national championship in 19 seasons, tying her with the great Frank Brennan.
* She has a career 466-44 record across those 19 seasons, for a .914 winning percentage. Her average season is 25-2.
* In her head coaching career (started in 2000-01), every single class has won at least one national title. Every single one. The last Stanford women's tennis class to finish without a NCAA championship graduated in 1996, when Lele was an assistant coach.
If you haven't read this piece about the women's tennis program from a couple years' back, focusing on Lele Forood and Frankie Brennan, you should: https://stanford_ftp.sidearmsports.com/c...index.html
It's not in the official write-up, but here are some other ridiculous stats:
* Stanford has never failed to advance past the regional stage.
* Stanford has never failed to reach the final site.
* Lele has a 155-12 record (.928) in Pac-10/12 play as a head coach.
* In her 19 seasons, Stanford has gone undefeated in conference play 12 times, including the last three seasons. Her worst conference record is 7-3 in 2015.
* Arguably her two worst seasons were 2009 (19-5, 6-2 Pac-10), when Stanford lost in the Round of 16 (our earliest exit ever) and 2015 (18-6, 7-3 Pac-12), when Stanford lost in the NCAA quarterfinals. She followed up both of those seasons with NCAA championships.
* She was the first woman to win a NCAA tennis championship as a head coach. She was joined by UCLA's Stella Sampras Webster in 2008, and they remain the only two women to win a NCAA championship as a head coach. (I think more programs are hiring women to coach women's tennis teams when there is a changing of the guard. Not a lot of turnover--if someone is good and the program is stable, you don't see a lot of calls to fire the women's tennis coach. UNC's coach has been there 16 years. Florida's coach has been there for 18. Duke's coach has been there 22. Vanderbilt's has been there 25. Georgia's Jeff Wallace has been there 34 years!)