Women's Division I Tennis Coaches Call for Vote on No-ad Format

Yesterday afternoon, I was contacted by Lin Loring, head women's coach at Indiana University regarding the process that led to the recent NCAA announcement that Division I tennis would use a no-ad format for the coming season. The decision to go to no-ad was arrived at by the ITA Division I Operating Committee and the NCAA Division I Committee, but was not put to a vote of coaches. Loring provided me with the following petition, asking for such a vote. If you would like to discuss this with him, or add your school to the list, Loring's contact information is in the link I provided above.

To Whom It May Concern:

We the Head Women’s Tennis Coaches at the schools listed below want to express our concern over the recent changes made to college tennis by the NCAA Tennis Committee and the ITA. We strongly believe these decisions do not represent the wishes of the majority of Women’s Coaches in NCAA Division I. Three major changes were made: the de-emphasis of doubles, the use of no-ad scoring and the practice of abandoning all dead singles matches. We are very open to discussions to shorten the length of team matches, but it must be a representative process. Again, we are convinced these changes, in their current format, do not represent the wishes of Women’s Head Coaches, and more importantly the women college players. Please allow the Women’s Head Tennis Coaches to vote before you make such a dramatic change to women’s college tennis.

Indiana University

UCLA

Stanford University

University of Colorado

University of Michigan

Boston University

Loyola Marymount

Stephen F. Austin

Florida State University

North Texas State

Eastern Michigan University

University of Albany

University of Minnesota

Louisiana Tech Univ.

Rutgers University

University of Utah

Mississippi State Univ.

Furman University

Marquette University

IUPU Indianapolis

Abilene Christian University

Texas A & M

University of Wisconsin

Cal Poly San Louis Obispo

University of Louisville

Murray State University

Drake University

San Diego State

SIU Carbondale

Indiana Purdue FW

Dartmouth University

University of Pennsylvania

University of Mass Amherst

University of Missouri

Univ. of Alabama Birmingham

NJ Institute of Technology

CSU Fullerton

Howard University

University of Tennessee Martin

Wake Fores University

Morgan State University

William & Mary

Santa Clara University

Seton Hall University

U.S. Air Force Academy

Florida International Univ.

Missouri State University

U. C. Santa Barbara

University of Illinois

DePaul University

University of Cincinnati

University of Toledo

Brown University

Marshall University

Butler University

SUNY Buffalo 

Sacred Heart University

Quinnipiac University

Bryant University

University of Northern Iowa

University of Notre Dame

Long Beach State Univ.

Virginia Commonwealth

North Carolina A&T

Univ. of Evansville

Liberty University

Eastern Illinois University

South Alabama

Youngstown State

U.S. Naval Academy

Florida Gulf Coast

George Mason University

University of Akron

University of Montana

Washington State University

Purdue University

St. Mary’s College

Cleveland State University

UNC Greensboro

Niagara University

Virginia Tech

University of Hartford

U.C. Irvine

University of Iowa

University of Rhode Island

Creighton University

Michigan State University

Wichita State University

University of Richmond

Bucknell University

Univ. Nevada Las Vegas

University of Nebraska

Xavier University

University of Kentucky

Brigham Young University

Univ. of Southern California

University of Washington

U. C. Riverside

University of Central Florida

U. C. Berkeley

University of Wyoming

Sam Houston State University

UM Kansas City

Lamar University

University of New Orleans

U. of Northern Colorado

Vanderbilt University

Middle Tennessee State U.

Northwestern State Univ.

Univ. of LA Lafayette

Arkansas State University

Univ. of Nebraska Omaha

UNC Asheville

University of Connecticut

Nicholls State University

Longwood University

Bowling Green University

Kansas State University

Saint Joseph’s University

Univ. of Wisconsin Green Bay

Elon University

Univ. of California Davis

Cornell University

Chicago State University

UM Balitmore County

Stony Brook University

Seattle University

University of Kansas

Sam Houston State University

Louisiana State University

Winthrop University

University of Louisiana Monroe

Samford University

Miami University

Montana State University

East Tennessee University

University of Maryland

University of Pittsburgh

University of Massachusets

Binghamton University

Louisiana Tech

Western Carolina University

Univ. of Texas El Paso

University of Idaho

Saint Peter’s University