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Life in Athens is getting hot, where the 2010 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships are now through to the semifinals. The men's bracket features the top two seeds Virginia and Tennessee taking on USC and host school Georgia, respectively. On the women's side, the top seed is gone. Second-seeded North Carolina meets #3 Florida, while #8 Stanford faces #5 Notre Dame.
Today, the Tennis Recruiting Network announces the Top 25 men's recruiting classes for the Class of 2010. Media Poll The Tennis Recruiting Network has again enlisted the aid of junior tennis experts to determine the top classes. Reporters, national and international tournament directors, referees, ranking chairmen, and writers from across the country have donated their time and talents to vote on these top classes. Panelists for this voting period are shown below. Each of our panelists submitted his/her take on the Top 25 recruiting classes. Schools received 25 points for each first-place vote, 24 points for each second-place vote, on down to 1 point for each 25th-place vote. The panelists were told not to consider incoming transfer students in their voting. Top 25 Men's Recruiting Classes (through May 7) Here are the Spring Rankings of the top men's college recruiting classes, presented by the Tennis Recruiting Network. The Top 25 classes are shown in order, with the point totals and previous ranking from the winter in the two columns at right. The number of first-place votes is shown in parentheses next to the school name. New recruits for schools are shown in bold italics. These lists are based on all commitments reported through May 7, 2010. Also Receiving Votes Other men's programs receiving votes are: Central Florida (50), Harvard (38), Penn State (32), Air Force (19), William & Mary (19), Cornell (16), Furman (16), Louisville (16), Texas A&M (16), UNC Wilmington (16), Elon (14), Dartmouth (6), Amherst (5), Baylor (2), Middle Tennessee (2), Middlebury (1), Washington (1). Stock Rising There are five new faces in our Top 25, and one of those teams - the Florida State Seminoles - surged all the way to #9 in these rankings. Our voters had a great deal of respect for Texan Blake Davis, giving 220 votes to FSU's one-man class. TennisRecruiting.net carried Davis' commitment announcement during its coverage of Spring Signing Week. Other programs new to the Top 25 are Mississippi (No. 15), Brown (21), Georgia State (22), and Kentucky (25). Devils Stay Strong With no changes to the recruiting classes of the teams near the top, the Duke Blue Devils once again headline our rankings. Coach Smith's team garnered 9 of the 17 first-place votes and 415 out of 425 possible points. No. 2 UCLA and No. 3 Michigan took the remaining first-place votes, with the Bruins gathering 6 of the votes to Big Blue's 2. Georgia and Notre Dame round out the top 5. Conference Call The SEC leads all conferences with 5 programs in the rankings, followed by the ACC and Ivy League (4 programs apiece). Other conferences with multiple recruiting classes in the Top 25 are the Big 10 (3), Pac 10 (3), WCC (2). The West Coast Conference once again leads all mid-major conferences with two schools in the rankings - San Diego and Santa Clara. Both schools were able to land Blue Chip recruits. Other mid-major conferences represented in these rankings are the Colonial Athletic League (Georgia State) and the Patriot League (Army). We expect all of these mid-major programs to be near the top of our mid-major recruiting class rankings that will be released in just a couple of weeks. Panelists for May 2010 The 17 panelists for this voting period are shown below alphabetically. Please join us in thanking them for donating their time and talents to this effort.
Rankings, Rankings Everywhere... These are only the first of our Recruiting Class Rankings. Rankings for the women's classes will be released next Monday, May 31st, followed by rankings of Mid-major as well as NCAA Division III schools. Leave a Comment More Recruiting Class Rankings 21-Jun-2024
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But before the matches begin, TennisRecruiting.net casts an eye to the future - and the top recruiting classes arriving this fall. With more than twelve hundred committed seniors, the majority of schools have completed their recruiting for this year's class. 
