Tennis 
Tech sports roundup: Tech’s Roddick garners berth to NCAA indoors(1)
COLLEGE STATION — Texas Tech senior Darrell Roddick earned an automatic berth in the NCAA indoor championships, winning the triple jump at the Texas A&M Challenge with a personal record of 53 feet, 53/4 inches Saturday.
Roddick joins teammates Bryce Lamb (men’s triple jump) and Shade Weygandt (women’s pole vault) as automatic qualifiers to the NCAA [...]
Students sign with Division I schools
Whitney Wofford isn’t intimidated by competing in a conference that had 10 teams ranked in the top 25 last year, or about earning playing time at a program that’s made 16 consecutive appearances in the NCAA tournament.
The Coronado senior wants to compete with the best, beat the best and, ultimately, be the best.
That’s why Wofford [...]
Brazilian tennis player will try to win over America at indoor national competition this afternoon
Raony Carvalho used to seek out the most remote seat in each of his classes, tucking himself into a desk in a back corner hoping he would never be asked to speak.
“Please, nobody talk to me,” he’d think. “I don’t know how to answer.”
Carvalho arrived from Brazil a little more than one year ago, speaking [...]
Carvalho wins opening match
TULSA, Okla – Texas Tech sophomore Raony Carvalho started his season Thursday with a three-set win over Tennessee’s Boris Conkic in the first round of the ITA All-American Tennis Championships.
Carvalho, the nation’s 25th-ranked singles player, beat No. 20 Conkic 6-3, 4-6, 7-5. Today he’ll face 13th-ranked Justin Kronauge of Ohio State in the round of [...]
Women’s tennis dominates
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Lobo Invitational concluded Sunday with Texas Tech winning 11 of its 12 singles and doubles matches.
Natalie Leitch won her four singles matches in Flight A. Kerryn Potgieter and Stefanie Peana each won their four singles matches and Lorena Aviles won her three in Flight B.
The Red Raiders won 24 of their [...]
Escobar advances to round of 16 at Baylor
The Texas Tech men’s tennis team concluded day one of the Baylor Intercollegiate in Waco on Friday. Sophomore Gonzalo Escobar advanced to the round of 16 in the A singles draw and to the quarterfinals of the A doubles draw with teammate freshman Andre Stabile.
Starting off the day was the A doubles draw where Escobar [...]
Adversity hasn’t slowed Tech’s push into NCAA Championships
BY TRAVIS CRAM l AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
The Texas Tech tennis team has had quite an interesting season, to say the least.
The third-seeded Red Raiders (13-11) have found a way to overcome adversity on the court this year and advance to their third consecutive NCAA Championship appearance — fourth in the last five years — where they will [...]
Tennis coach Petty has interim tag removed
BY JEFF WALKER l A-J SPORTS EDITOR
Todd Petty’s dream was to coach tennis at the Division I level. He received a taste of that during the 2008-09 season, but now he can whet his appetite.
Petty had the interim tag removed from his title on Thursday as Texas Tech officially named him the head coach of [...]
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