2008 Men's Tennis Awards

The Men's Tennis Team had their annual team dinner and awards banquet at the Martini's restaurant. Most Improved Player award went to Tim Coleman. Ron Muhammad received the Best Sportsmanship ward. Team Captain Aaron Wigg received the Most Valuable Player award.  Also receiving certificates were teammates Derrick Young, Ben Stone, Andrew Humphrey & Jeff Nichols.
 

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( May 09, 2008 11:36 AM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

IIAC Conference Tennis

The Beaver's finished out their season this past weekend at the IIAC Men's Individual Conference Tournament in Cedar Rapids. The weather did not fully cooperate as most of the tournament was held indoors. In singles senior Derrick Young and sophmore Ben Young recorded wins in their first round match up. In doubles team captain Aaron Wigg and Tim Coleman had a strong finish making it to the quarterfinals. The competition at the conference was very solid and I thought we competed well overall as a team. The Beaver's will lose only one player from this year's squad and the outlook for next year looks promising with some of the new recruits.

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( April 29, 2008 03:48 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

Men's Tennis Last Home Dual Match this weekend!

The Beaver's will finish out their regular schedule with the last home match this weekend against Simpson this Saturday at 9am and Dubuque at 3pm. The Beav's are looking to improve their conference standing and overall match play. With all the wet weather the past few weeks a lot of the teams on our schedule are having a tough time rescheduling as it gets close to our conference tournament on April 24. We have had some close match play with Dordt last Tuesday in Orange City with a 5-4 loss. Aaron Wigg has been playing some solid singles in his last couple of matches and should be up for the challenge. Ben Stone had a nice win over Dordt and has been a factor in getting us point in singles and doubles with partner Derrick Young. Ron Muhammad and Andrew Humprey have been solid at the 3rd doubles position as well as Andrew has been playing some tough singles matches. Derrick Young has been improving his match play with a challenging singles victory against Dordt last week. Tim Coleman continues to get the job done and gets us the needed points in close matches. Jeff Nichols has also gave us some key victorys in singles and doubles.

The Beaver's will also be playing a rescheduled match with Morningside College in Sioux City on Monday, April 21.

The IIAC Conference Tournament will begin April 24 with the Team Tournament then the Individual Tournament on April 25 & 26 in Cedar Rapids. 

See you on the courts! 

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( April 14, 2008 12:42 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

Men's Tennis Split in Dual Match

The Beaver's were back in action this past weekend with a dual match with Cornell College and Bethany Luther in Storm Lake. The first match with Cornell prove to be a tough test as they won 9-0. Cornell is a very solid team and even though we were down a player as Derrick Young, who is a student asst. coach for our men's basketball team who made it to the NCAA sweat 16 tournament. We made some adjustments to our lineup and still played a respectable match with Cornell. Our doubles scores and play was much closer than the match indicated.

Our second match was with Bethany Luther(Minn.) and the Beaver's triumphed with a 8-1 victory! Our doubles teams of #1 Aaron Wigg and Tim Coleman got the momentum going first with a solid net game. #2 Ron Muhammad and Andrew Humprey stepped up for our second doubles win and #3 Ben Stone and Jeff Nichols proved themselves to our third doubles win to start out the match. Singles victory for the Beavers were led by captain Aaron Wigg with a hard fought victory at #1 singles. Ben Stone improved his singles record with a solid baseline performance.#3 Ron Muhammad lost a close match after being up 5-2 in the second set. #4 Andrew Humphrey overpowered his opponent with his win. #5 Tim Coleman got his big serve rolling to out-finished his opponent in a close match. #6 Jeff Nichols out played his opponent with a consistent baseline game.

Overall, our team keeps improving with each match they play. We will have our spring break coming up next week. The Beaver's will be on the road for the most part of April.

Next match will be Wednesday, March 26 against Central College in Ft. Dodge at 4pm. 

 

 

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( March 10, 2008 12:58 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

Men's Tennis Team Victorious Over Simpson

It was an exciting start to the men's season opener against Simpson last Friday at Storm Lake. Our doubles teams got us off to a positive start winning all three matches to give us the momentum before the singles. Our # 1 doubles team was led by Team Captain Aaron Wigg and Tim Coleman which had an exciting match that was decided by a dominant tiebreaker score of  7-0. Our #2 doubles team  was Ben Stone and Derrick Young had a convincing win of 8-2. Number 3 doubles team of Ron Muhammad and Andrew Humphrey was also a solid performance with a 8-2 victory.

Our singles wins were led by Aaron Wigg who played a solid match at #1 singles to give BVU a 6-4, 6-3 win. New comer, Ben Stone played an exciting hard fought match to give us a  6-4, 6-3 win. Senior Derrick Young pick up a convincing win at #4 singles with a 6-0,6-1 victory. Freshman Andrew Humphrey also played a solid match to give BV a point with a 6-2, 6-2 win at #5 singles. Ron Muhammad played a tough match at #3 singles as well as Tim Coleman  who lost in a close match at #6 singles losing in a tiebreaker.

The Beaver's will host Luther College next Saturday, Feb. 23 at noon. 

 

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( February 20, 2008 05:15 PM ) Permalink | Comments[1]

2008 Men's Tennis Team

The 2008 Beaver's Tennis Team will open their season in a home match against Simpson on Friday, February 15th. The Beaver's are looking to improve overall with added depth and experience in our lineup. Team Captain, Aaron Wigg a junior from La Porte City, Ia.,will return as one of our leading players. Tim Coleman, a junior from Denison, Ia., has shown a lot of promise to this year's team. Ron Muhammad, a junior from Chicago, Ill., was most improved last year and looks to better his record this season. Ben Stone, a tranfer student from Bloomington, Ill., shows a lot of desire and will bolster the top half of our lineup. Derrick Young, a senior from Greenfield, Ia., has the athletic ability and leadership skills to give us the needed depth for the team. Andrew Humprey and Jeff Nichols, both freshman from Carroll, Ia., looks to aid our team to give us a solid lineup to help our team for the new year!

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( January 07, 2008 02:54 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

2nd Annual Holiday Tennis Drill & Play Clinic

The Beaver's Tennis Team will host it's 2nd annual Tennis Drill & Play Clinic on December 29th & 30th for varsity high school tennis players. Boy's Varsity only will be on Saturday from 11-2:30 pm and Girl's Varsity only will be on Sunday from 1-4:30pm. The clinic will be 3 1/2 hours of singles and doubles drills and tactics in match play situations. Costs will be $35 per person and includes BVU Tennis shirt, a Fastest Serve Contest & Door Prizes! Sign-ups will be limited to the first 12 players. Deadline will be Sunday, December 23rd. For more information contact Head Coach Kevin McCadams at 712-899-2205(c), 712-749-2267(o), email mccadamsk@bvu.edu. Registration form may be found on the BVU Athletic website under camps & clinics.

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( November 16, 2007 12:00 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

Tim Coleman named 2007 All-Academic Team

Tim Coleman, a sophmore from Denison, Iowa, has been name to the 2007 Iowa Conference All-Academic Team. Tim played #4 singles and #2 doubles for the Beavers tennis season.

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( May 27, 2007 11:42 AM ) Permalink | Comments[2]

2007 Men's Tennis Awards

Jeff Shinrock, a senior and Team Captain from Cedar Rapids, Ia. was chosen the Most Valuable Player for the 2007 men's tennis season. Ronald Muhammad, a sophmore from Lynwood, Ill.was recieved The Most Improved Player Award for the 2007 men's tennis season.

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( May 17, 2007 04:36 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

Men's Season ends on a promising future

The Men's Tennis finished out their season with the Individual Iowa Conference Championships in Cedar Rapids. The Beavers had solid performances from senior captain Jeff Shinrock and sophmore Aaron Wigg. Aaron won his first round singles match against Central and teamed with Jeff Shinrock to win their first round doubles match against Dubuque. Promising performances from Tim Coleman, Ron Muhammad, James Pearson and Bryce Klintobe in their match play as they have shown steady improvement throughout the season. As the season comes to an end our team will take in the experience to learn, improve over the months and have the great memories as our 2007 men's team had!

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( April 30, 2007 02:09 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

Beaver Tennis Looking Ahead To Conferene

The Men's last home match will be this Wednesday, April 18 at 4pm. The Beaver's are looking to get more match wins before the IIAC Championships on April 27. Team Captain and senior Jeff Shinrock who is our #1 singles and doubles player has been playing some solid matches though scores don't always show the level of play. Jeff gives us 100% when he is on the court and has improved his game to become a more complete player. Jeff has been an effective leader for our team,

Aaron Wigg has shown improvement at #2 singles and #1 doubles and also gives you 100% on the court and is becoming a very solid all-around player.

Ronald Muhammad  is a very capabale player and has shown steady improvement all season long. Ron has one the best backhand groundstrokes in the conference and has improve his overall consistency.

Tim Coleman has improved his overall match performance and keeps getting better with match play experience.

James Pearson also has shown vast improvement with his consistency on his groundstrokes. James has learned fast on strategy and has improve his game with each match performance.

 Bryce Klinetobe has improved his overall tennis game. Bryce has a deceptive backhand groundstroke and he continues to improve with experience.

 

 

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( April 16, 2007 01:38 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

Meet Team Member Aaron Wigg!

Aaron has been playing tennis most of his life and started playing competitive tennis since his 7th grade year. He chose to come to Buena Vista University because of the campus life, after visiting BVU and attending a basketball game he was astonished by all the student support. "Everyone gets along and athletic events are always a blast", said Aaron. In his spare time Aaron enjoys drawing, playing cribbage, and watching movies. Playing #2 singles and #1doubles with partner Jeff Shinrock, Aaron enjoys his teammates and has fun playing as a team. Aaron is also very active on campus as he is in charge of the Student Activities Board of on-campus activities . Aaron is a big supporter of Beaver athletics as you will see him cheering on the sidelines or in the stands (as Buford T. Beaver......our mascot!). BVU and BVU Tennis is proud to have a student such as Aaron.


Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( March 27, 2007 01:51 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

BVU 2007 MEN"S TENNIS SEASON OPENS THIS WEEKEND

The 2007 Men's Tennis Team season begins in a dual match against Monmouth College and Central College in Pella. Returning netters from last year team are lead by team captain Jeff Shinrock, Aaron Wigg and Ronald Muhammad. Newcomers that will balance out the team will be Tim Coleman, James Pearson & Bryce Klinetobe. First home match will be Feb. 16 against Simpson College.



Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( February 01, 2007 01:18 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

BVU Tennis Camp a Big Success!

The BVU Tennis & Drill Day Camp was a big success with 23 high school varsity and junior varsity players attending from throughout western Iowa schools. A lot of the high school tennis coaches showed positive support in getting their players to participate. Helping with the camp was Tim Meyer, former All-Academic Team player at BVU and current BVU Tennis Team players Aaron Wigg, Jeff Shinrock and All-Academic Team lady team members Katie and Jamie Anliker.

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( January 12, 2007 02:36 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

2007 Men's Tennis Schedule

The 2007 Men's Tennis Scedule is posted on the mens tennis website.  We are looking forward to the 2007 season with practice starting in early Janruary.  Our first match is scheduled for February 3rd at Pella, Ia. against Monmouth College and Central College in dual match. Some of the returning players will be Jeff Shinrock, Ron Muhammad and Aaron Wigg.

Posted by McCadamsK [Men's Tennis] ( November 08, 2006 02:36 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]