Posted: Apr 05, 2023
THE TEAMS
Santa Clara (11-7) at Weber State (10-7)
Santa Clara (11-7, 3-2 WCC) at BYU (4-12, 2-2 WCC)
All records are as of April 5.
MATCH INFO
vs. Weber State
When: Friday, April 7 at 10:30 a.m. PT
Where: Ogden Athletic Club (Ogden, Utah)
Live Stats: none
Video: none
vs. BYU
When: Saturday, April 8 at 10 a.m. PT
Where: Indoor Tennis Facility or Outdoor Tennis Courts (Provo, Utah) Note: BYU is still undecided on whether it'll be played indoors or outdoors.
UPDATE (April 7): the match will be played at the Indoor Tennis Facility.
UPDATE II (April 8): venue update - the match will now be played on the Outdoor Tennis Courts due to warmer than forecasted weather that is above the NCAA-mandated threshold for outdoor matches.
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Video (only if its played indoors): Live Stream
NOTES
- Santa Clara travels to the state of Utah to face Weber State in a nonconference match on Friday and a West Coast Conference contest against BYU on Saturday.
- The Broncos are 5-5 in away matches this season including a 4-5 record in true road contests. Weber State is 5-0 and BYU is 4-3 at home.
- Christian Lerby tops the team with 12 singles wins that includes a 3-all match clincher against No. 65 Gonzaga last weekend.
- Lerby currently has a seven-match singles win streak.
- Guillaume Dalmasso, Mann Shah and Arthur Neuhaus leads the team in doubles wins with nine.
- SCU has blanked three opponents this season - Seattle, UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz.
- Santa Clara was picked to finish fourth in the West Coast Conference in the WCC preseason poll.
- The eight-player squad is comprised entirely of upperclassmen. Graduate Students (4): Santiago Hinojosa, Christian Lerby, Arthur Neuhaus and Jack Pulliam; Seniors (3): Nick Cmager, Matthew Rodriguez and Mann Shah; Junior (1): Guillaume Dalmasso.
- In the fall, Hinojosa led the team with eight singles wins while Pulliam had the most doubles wins with seven.
- The Broncos hired a new assistant coach, Edson Ortiz last May.
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In 2021-22:
- Santa Clara posted a 10-12 season in 2021-22 including 5-4 in the West Coast Conference to qualify for the league tournament for the fourth time in five years (missing only during 2019-20 COVID year).
- The Broncos finished ranked No. 7 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association regional team rankings with Guillaume Dalmasso and Arthur Neuhaus ranked top-20 in singles.
- Three Broncos garnered All-WCC honors: Arthur Neuhaus, Mann Shah and Guillaume Dalmasso.
- The team was recognized by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association as an All-Academic team for the fourth-straight year and four Broncos were named ITA Scholar-Athletes.
- Dalmasso had a team best 24-11 overall singles record and a 12-4 dual match record.
- Mann Shah led the team with 12 overall doubles victories and 10 dual match wins.
- Santa Clara returns six players (Nick Cmager, Guillaume Dalmasso, Santiago Hinojosa, Arthur Neuhaus, Matthew Rodriguez and Mann Shah) from last season.
- Head coach Niall Angus is in his seventh year as the head coach. Entering the 2021-22 season, Angus owned a 68-53 career record and coached 11 all-conference singles, 11 all-conference doubles and 16 conference all-academic honorees.
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