A myriad of universities in the United States celebrated their graduation ceremonies last weekend. Indeed, our tennis player Marta González Niño graduated with honors at Queens University of Charlotte. We want to offer our most sincere congratulations to her! After obtaining the Bachelor’s Degree, some decide to enter the labor...
NCAA 2017 Tennis Tournament: Our Players, Selection Show and the Role of the Committee
The selection committee has spoken. The NCAA tennis tournament brackets were unveiled on May 2. Our student-athletes on scholarship already know their path to a potential Division I national championship. Using basketball slang, May Madness is underway! In the women’s draw, the Georgia Bulldogs received the fifth overall seed. Marta...
Three reasons behind postseason ineligibility
At end of April, the majority of our athletes on scholarship in the United States are entering the home stretch of the season, i.e. the conference tournaments. As in every knockout competition, major powerhouses are more vulnerable to being ousted by theoretically inferior opposition. The big fish seek to reassert...
Did you know that several tennis players in Davis Cup come from American College?
The weekend of April 7-9, the top team in NCAA Division I men’s tennis, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, enjoyed a well-deserved break after collecting 12 straight wins. Immersed in the hunt to win the super competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, a 12-day halt seems like a double-edged sword, doesn’t it?...
The magnitude of college basketball in United States: coaches salaries
The NCAA basketball tournament, also known as The Big Dance or March Madness, is officially over. The South Carolina Gamecocks won the first women’s basketball title in school history after defeating the Mississippi State Bulldogs by a score of 67-55. On the men’s side, the North Carolina Tar Heels captured...
The importance of Youtube for VT Sports Management
Youtube is the second largest search engine in the world. In 2007, Google purchased the video-sharing giant for around 1.3 billion euros. Paying such a hefty sum may have seemed ill-advised at the time, but it has paid off for Google, who correctly anticipated how important video would become in...
Mixed feelings: Oracle Tennis Awards and Amstrong State University
Mixed Feelings There is a stark contrast between the two pieces of news we are going to share in this new entry of the VT Sports blog. Both will affect college tennis in the near future, though. On the one hand, two rising players are set to receive each year...
March Madness: Picks by our team
March Madness NCAA Over the next three weekends, college basketball will surely dominate the TV ratings in the United States. The NCAA Division I tournament, also known as March Madness, is a can’t-miss appointment for any sports fan. The mayhem reaches its highest exposure during the first weekend, when basketball...
Women´s Day: MEET 5 OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN U.S. COLLEGE SPORTS
Special Post: Women day, Sportswomen Today it’s International Women’s Day and here at VT Sports we want to join this celebration by writing about five women who have left a profound imprint in the history of women’s collegiate sports in the United States. One coach, four athletes, four different sports....