Beth Marquardt Calderone learned softball pitching at age eight by trying to hit the broad side of the barn in her backyard in Emporia, Kansas. She would go on to become one of the top players in University of Chicago softball history and record one of the first dominating performancesContinue Reading
With the unprecedented accomplishments of their freshman campaign, the Class of 2018 University of Chicago men’s tennis recruits knew they would face huge expectations in their sophomore season. Nick Chua described the 2015-16 season as one of “inflated expectations with inversely bad results.” “We were already ranked so high earlyContinue Reading
The recruiting class of Nick Chua, Peter Leung, David Liu, and Luke Tsai paid immediate dividends for the University of Chicago men’s tennis program. The Maroons swept the ITA Division III Central Region titles with Chua winning singles and the combination of Liu and senior Deepak Sabada earning the doublesContinue Reading
Since the Class of 2018 arrived on the University of Chicago campus, the men’s tennis team has reached new heights, but a lot more went into the program’s success than on-court talent. The Prevailing Culture “During the interview process it became clear that the men’s team at UChicago had aContinue Reading
From four different regions, the 2015-16 University of Chicago men’s tennis freshmen class has come together as part of the most successful, and perhaps the closest, teams in program history. “None of us really knew each other beforehand, which was weird because we all played national level tournaments, but hadContinue Reading
With 20 NCAA Division III championships and 184 University Athletic Association titles, Emory University is an athletic powerhouse. Yet it wasn’t until it began competition in the UAA that Emory achieved athletic success, having gone without a single All-American in its 150-year existence until 1986. As a matter of fact,Continue Reading
