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Program Notes

Will Boe-Wiegaard '06 and Bates coach Paul Gastonguay '89 share the joy of Boe-Wiegaard's NCAA Singles Championship in May 2006.

Head coach Paul Gastonguay, the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2005, guided the Bates men's tennis team to a seventh consecutive NCAA berth in 2006.

The end of the 2006 season marked a special milestone for the men's tennis program at Bates. Will Boe-Wiegaard won the NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Singles Championship as an unseeded player, toppling the Nos. 1, 2 and 7 seeds in the process. It was the first NCAA championship for a Bates athlete other than in track and field, and it earned Boe-Wiegaard a spot in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd", as well as appearances on CBS's "NCAA Spring Highlight Show." It was the fifth All-America award for the senior from Georgetown, Conn. He won his fourth All-America honors, and the first ever for Bates in doubles tennis, along with classmate and partner Tristan Beach. The pair advanced to the Division III quarterfinals.

Tennis success at Bates is nothing new. Bud Schultz ’81, the College’s first tennis All-American, went on to become one of the world’s top 40 players. Schultz led his team at Bates to a third-place finish at the NCAA team tournament. Gastonguay followed Schultz’s lead to a world ranking in singles and doubles. The Bobcats' 1996 squad holds the single-season record for wins and made the team's first trip to the NCAA championships. Two members of that team, Mark Erelli '96 and Jeff Poleshek '96, made appearances in the 1995 NCAA individual  tournament.

Fall 2007 Review
The youthful and talented Bates men's tennis team continued its ascendancy in the Northeast during the brief fall season.

Captains Ben Stein '09, an All-NESCAC singles player in 2007, and Danilo Acosta '08 led the Bobcats to a strong showing at the Middlebury Invitational. Stein reached the finals of the A-Flight of singles. Acosta earned Bobcat of the Week honors after winning the C-Flight of singles and reaching the finals of the B-Flight of doubles with Zach Fenno '10.

Fall invitational tournaments are a good opportunity to test out our talent and to get some match experience against some of the top teams in the region. The ITA Regional Championship indicates where we stack up against the top players in the Northeast.

Stein emphasized why he is one of the elite players in arguably the nation's strongest region by cruising through to the semifinals of singles at ITAs, where he fell in a hard-fought 3-set contest.

Stein joined Sri Lankan Men's National Singles Champion and Davis Cup team member, Amrit Rupasinghe '10 to reach the finals of the ITA doubles championships, where they lost a very closely contested match to the eventual ITA Small College National Champions.

In the first duel match of the season, the Bobcats soundly defeated NESCAC opponent Wesleyan, 9-0. Dedicated to working hard in the off-season, the men's team looks forward to improving upon its past success when the spring season rolls around.