The Cal State Fullerton Titans women's tennis team competes at the NCAA Division I Collegiate level and is a member of the Big West Conference.
[5] In 1968 the USLTA sponsors the first National Team Championship in Women's Intercollegiate Tennis and known now as Trinity University (Texas) coached by Shirley Rushing wins the team title and Emilie Burrer also of Trinity University (Texas) wins the Individual National Championship for singles and doubles that year with partner Becky Vest.
[6] Scheel was a professor of Kinesiology and Health Promotion at Fullerton and was a grad from La Verne College now known as (University of La Verne) she was also after her tennis coaching career at Fullerton was the president of Western Society of Physical Education of College Women for academic year 1984–85 this society was founded in 1921 and deals with issues and concerns related to disciplines in higher education and human movement the group of women represents colleges from the western territory of Canada to Hawaii to Utah and down to Arizona she was a well rounded collegiate coach.
[7] In the 1973 CSUF women's season, Scheel's team, led by number 1 singles player a former transfer student-athlete from Fullerton Junior College Hornets Sue Marta, had a victory, defeating the USC Trojans in that year also the Titans women's tennis program also moved up in league class to the "A" bracket.
Marta also had a career high impressive victory over Cal State L.A. Golden Eagle Tina Watanabe their Number 1 player on the team and a 1973 NCAA National Collegiate Singles Tournament finalists that was held in Auburn, Alabama Watanabe had victories on the Women's Pro Circuit over Tracy Austin, Steffi Graf and Monica Seles and had a World Singles Ranking of 79th at one point in her professional career.
[8] Tamayo played one successful year for the Titans and went on to finish her collegiate career at Princeton University and was a 3-time All-Ivy League Tennis Selection for the Tigers.
2 singles player behind Tamayo on the Titan team, she played at Pacific High School in San Bernardino, Ca.
Standout Titan individual women's tennis performers in singles and doubles under Coach Bill Cole tenure: Coaching record (2 Years/Seasons, 17 Wins–44 Losses) The 1985 team was coached by the former Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles tennis player Bill Etchegaray and led by number 1 singles player Kristi Blankenship '86 who had a (30–10) senior season won-loss record, was selected at the end of that year by the NCAA Regional Committee to participate in the NCAA Division I Women's Singles Tennis Championship Tournament held at Oklahoma State University in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Blankenship represented the Titans very well was defeated in the tournament by University of Miami Hurricanes talented "All-American" and top 16 seeded player in the championships Lise Gregory by a score of (5–7, 4–6).
A year later in 1986 Blankenship '86 won The Ojai Women's Open Invitational Singles Championship/The Foothill Cup defeating Kathy May-Paben who formerly had a professional tennis ranking of number 10 in 1977.
Newly hired Titans Women's Tennis Coach, Brad Allen, found out about the attempted elimination of the program when he read it in the school newspaper.
Coach Allen was able to save and promote the tennis program through record fundraising of about $11,000 a year and unknown to the players, he wrote scholarships from his own checkbook.
Allen and the team sold fireworks, beer at UCLA football games, held tennis clinics and USTA sanctioned tournaments, and more to raise money.
Another highlight came in 1989 against Harvard University when Kelli Moore and Caroline Sporer split sets against the #2 ranked doubles team in the nation.
Prior to joining the Titans Women's Tennis Program and Coach Brad Allen's squad for the 1988 season player Nicole Brechtbuhl won the 1986 California Junior College State Doubles Individual title her freshmen year and in 1987 Brechtbuhl won the California Junior College State Singles Individual title in her second year.
Also at stake for the conference champion was an automatic berth in the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Team Format Championship Tournament.
The Titans defeated Cal Poly Mustangs in the semi-finals of the conference championships 4–0 on Saturday and with their loss in the finals they finished their season with a record of 20–6.
[31] Becker known as "Ernie" to everyone was an Amherst College grad and "Mammoths" tennis letterman as a player on the team and received a graduate degree in "Divinity" and a doctorate degree in "Higher Education" from the University of Southern California, he started his professional career as a journalist working at one time for "The Christian Science Monitor" and other news organizations.
[34] Becker during World War II was playing exhibition matches and was a practice player hitting balls and getting tips on the game with legendary tennis professional Bill Tilden and also tennis pro Vinnie Richards as well as National Doubles Champion and Davis Cup Team Captain Gardnar Mulloy, Davis Cup member Wayne Sabin and National Women's Doubles Champion Helen Marlow through playing matches with these notable players he was adding more knowledge of the game by the time he started the Titans Men's Tennis Program and coaching his players during those early years of the Program.
[34] Becker retired in 1977 at Cal State Fullerton as he held his final position at the school of "Director of the Career Placement Center".
[15] On the 1963–64 Titans squad was former Fullerton Junior College Hornet tennis player Stan Kula a legend in Orange County, California tennis circles who was their top player on that '64 Titan team and back in 1959 Kula from Anaheim High School was the CIF High School Individual Doubles Champion with doubles partner Don Kliss that year.
In a dual match on April 21, 1964, the Titans took on arch rival Long Beach State College (known now as Long Beach State University) Kula the Titans number 1 seed/man on the team beat highly ranked national collegiate player John Allgood of the 49ers in singles 8–6, 4–6, 6–2, Allgood in his collegiate tennis career was seeded in the top eight for the National Collegiate Men's Tennis Championships held in Los Angeles also in that dual match with the 49ers Kula and his teammate partner Mike Bouck won also in doubles but the Titans team was outlasted by the depth in the 49ers lineup and were beaten in that dual team match.
[39] Kula after college beat many touring tennis professionals like Rod Laver, Stan Smith, Pancho Gonzales, Bob Lutz and even Billie Jean King and was also the Titans coach for the 1965 season.
[44] Standout Titan individual men's tennis performers in singles and doubles under Coach Dr. Michael Yessis tenure: The 1971 CSUF Men's team led by Bruce Westforth a transfer student athlete from Fullerton Junior College recorded the most wins in a season from when the program started in the early sixties to then with a record that season of (15 wins-12 losses) but had a losing record in there conference(1971 Conference Tennis Champion San Fernando Valley State College which is now known as Cal State Northridge Matadors) said Titans Coach Bob Osborn "You have to credit a strong conference and some good players" Osborn went on to say "We had a team with a good attitude and good efforts in every match".
[46] The 1973 Titans team led by Coach Craig Neslage had quite a fiery tennis player named Oscar Meyer a Cal Poly Pomona Bronco transfer who played at the No.
[48] Standout Titan individual men's tennis performers in singles and doubles under Coach Craig Neslage tenure: (Assistant Coaches: Jonathan Walters '76, 1975–76 Season and John Nordstrom '78, 1976–1978 Seasons) In the 1974–75 academic year when the Titans Men's Tennis program became a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) they moved up to the Division I large school level and also they added a new tennis coach named Ron Witchey a Dennison University grad taking over the last part of the 1975 season taking over for short term Titan Coach Steve Warfield who himself as a collegiate tennis player was a 1970 Division III All-American from the University of Redlands during his playing days.
1975 NCAA Men's Individual Singles & Doubles Division I Tennis Championships held in Corpus Christi, Texas on June 20, 1975, participated by Titan players: PCAA Men's Titan Individual Singles & Doubles Conference Champions and Runner-up's during Coach Ron Witchey tenure: (Assistant Coach: Jim Worth) The 1980 Titans Men's Tennis team was led by senior player and team captain Dave Barrows '81 and newcomer Tim Giller both were the top players on the team and during the season Giller had the only highlight victory of the regular season in singles against Pepperdine University 3-time All-American Division I Singles Collegiate tennis player Glenn Michibata that went three sets in the Titans 1-8 dual match loss to the Waves.
Then came in toward the early mid-eighties was Coach Ed Burt who brought in a lot of talented good recruits and the tennis program was on the rise again with the additions of English junior college player by way of Florida Julian Lowin '85, Donny Young, South African player Craig McSmythe (1983 Ojai CIF H.S.
[54] These Titans teams were competing with collegiate tennis powerhouse's on their schedule like highly nationally ranked USC Trojans and also highly nationally ranked Pepperdine Waves along with San Diego State Aztecs, Boston University Terriers, South Carolina Gamecocks, Princeton Tigers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, University of New Mexico Lobos, University of San Diego Toreros and PCAA Conference highly national ranked foes UC Irvine Anteaters and Long Beach State 49ers at the time, even Division III number one nationally ranked opponent University of Redlands Bulldogs was really good during that time period on the Titans schedule.
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