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MyspaceSanta Barbara City College’s men’s tennis team lost their coach last week. Ryan Heinberg, who led the Vaqueros to an 8-3 record last season, resigned to pursue other opportunities. Now SBCC has decided to suspend the men’s tennis program after the upcoming season ends.
According to a press release from the school, “The decision to suspend the men’s tennis program is due to dwindling local interest and declining retention rate in Intercollegiate Men’s Tennis over the past decade.”
The program was set to be suspended immediately, but SBCC decided it would proceed with the spring season because, according to the release, “The majority of student-athletes participating in men’s tennis are from out of the area. … We have a passionate group of young men, many of whom have come a long way to play tennis at SBCC.”
The Vaqueros have yet to find a coach for the upcoming season. Those interested in applying for the position should contact athletic director Ryan Byrne at (805) 965-0581.
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Has a poll been taken that would probe the "dwindling local interest" in a sport seemingly well suited to Santa Barbara? On a wider level, it's being said that once the Williams sisters retire, US tennis will take a major hit since no dynamic replacements of their stature and influence are on the horizon. As it stands now, the "ova's" have taken ova tennis!
salsipuedes (anonymous profile)
December 17, 2012 at 4:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The SBCC tennis team just got "blindsided" by their own athletic department that is full of a bunch of football "thugs". Their football team received sanctions for evicting families from their apartments in order to house SBCC football players. They are "evicting" the sports minded community from the infield at La Playa Stadium in order to protect their $500,000.00 artificial football field. Look for other "minor" sports to be dropped. Maybe it should be time to think about dropping FOOTBALL. Recruiting violations, performance enhancing drugs, gambling, sky-rocketing expenses, they all follow present day football. The only winners are the BIG TIME football programs who swoop down and snag the top JC players and then make millions of dollars off them. If a player gets injured and can't play any more, they then throw them in a rubbish can full of beat up and battered former players who can hardly walk and bend down. It's a lose, lose proposition for junior college athletics.
independentmo (anonymous profile)
December 19, 2012 at 11:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)