It's always an exciting time. With the advent of the spring semester just days away, new additions to both teams will be arriving on campus tomorrow. It's really the culmination of the recruitment process. After much effort, paperwork, email, phone calls and so forth and so on, new players, who hopefully will be contributing to Concordia tennis, both immediately and for years to come, will finally begin their journey in Clipper blue.
This is the first time we have welcomed so many players in January...four in total. Both men's and women's team will welcome two new players tomorrow. Ordinarily, I do not like to add so much for the spring semester as I prefer to recruit student athletes for the fall. It just seems to work better in total. However, this time it worked out like this for some reason. We had the opportunity to bring in a quality of player that was simply too high to pass up.
We have always had a strong international flavor on both teams and these four new additions are no different. Specifically, we will add players from Sweden, Slovakia, Brazil and Israel. This is the first time for Clipper tennis to welcome players from said Slovakia and Israel and I will certainly enjoy learning about their heritage and culture while they are here in NY. While playing, I spent some time in the Holy Land but never made it to Bratislava. I suppose that the only time I think much about Bratislava is while watching the movie Eurotrip when the group of characters were mistakenly taken to the Slovakian city in error while hitchhiking.
I look forward to finally meeting the players tomorrow and also sharing more about them with you shortly. I know that you will be thrilled with their tennis and what they will contribute to our success. Stay tuned for the official announcements forthcoming with player profiles and video footage.
Nuff said...
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