[ColoradoTree]

Emily Arbuthnott continues to crush it in the classroom, headlining the Pac-12 All-Academic First Team with a 4.14 GPA as an Economics major. All the rest of our eligible* student-athletes were Honorable Mention selections--Shin, Higuchi, Gordon, Lampl, and Lord. 

https://pac-12.com/article/2019/05/10/pa...emic-teams
https://gostanford.com/news/2019/5/14/wo...onors.aspx

Interestingly, the Pac-12 release doesn't mention the GPAs of the Honorable Mention picks, but the Stanford release does. (The Stanford release notes that Higuchi has a 3.42 in HumBio, Lampl has a 3.34 in in STS, and Lord has a 3.24 in Public Policy. Shin (3.44) and Gordon (3.38) are as yet undeclared. Seems weirdly invasive that we should now know these things, really. Sure, trumpet the First Team folks, I guess, but do I really need to know everyone's GPA? I prefer the Pac-12's approach, which was to give the GPAs and majors of the First and Second team, but then just list the Honorable Mention folks.)

* To be eligible, you have to be at least a sophomore, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and play in at least 50 percent of the team's matches. From looking at the selections, I don't see anyone that plays doubles but not singles, like Kimberly Yee, so I can't be sure whether those folks were deemed not to have played in 50% of the team matches because they didn't play singles, or if those doubles-only folks fell short on the GPA front.

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I've never understood why they schedule these matches 2 hours apart. They will rarely be done in 2 hours. I hope they are planning to use 12 of the 100+ courts available at the site. And if they're going to do that, why not schedule them in 2 waves of 2 matches each, separated by enough time for the refs to recover?

The answer is "sort of." Yes, they're going to use 12 courts, albeit not equally. The 1st, 3rd, and 4th quarterfinals will be on Courts 1 through 6, while the 2nd quarterfinal (ours) will be on Courts 7-12. If the Tennis Channel weren't involved, they'd use both sets of courts equally, but it would make sense to me if TV is just set up for one set of courts for cost/simplicity's sake. I don't think they expect the 3rd quarterfinal to finish within 2 hours, but the "not before" scheduling format ensures the last teams are ready to go in case it does, so they don't have a lot of airtime they have to fill between matches--they want to get that second televised match on as soon as they an after the first. I'm assuming that South Carolina and Duke will watch Georgia-Vanderbilt closely enough to know when they need to start warming up, and then they'll probably do that on 7-12. 

And as for the 100+ courts on the site, the 12 they have set up for college tennis (with bleachers, a scoreboard, live streaming capability, and a little more space between the courts) are off to the side from the rest of the site. You could find scattered courts around the rest of the grounds if you needed to, but you wouldn't have bleachers for fans, the atmosphere would be isolated and wouldn't lend itself well to coaching, and you wouldn't have a scoreboard, so you'd be playing blind to what the rest of your teammates were doing. (And we wouldn't know what's going on, either, unless they had a runner to come update the scores after each game.)

Assuming it works like yesterday, the first match will still be going on when the second match starts up, with a second set of officials. Then the second quarterfinal might be done when the third quarterfinal starts, so you'd have to use that first set of officials again just in case the second quarter isn't done yet. I don't know how they're splitting up chair umpire assignments, but I assume the ones who work the second quarterfinal would then work the fourth so each set gets two matches.

So, really, you end up with the following schedule on Courts 1-6, which is a lot more sensible (assuming the officials that worked the second quarterfinal on 7-12 slide over to 1-6 for the last one):

9:00am: (2) UNC vs. (7) UCLA
2:00pm: (1) Georgia vs. (8) Vanderbilt
NB 4:00pm: (4) South Carolina vs. (5) Duke

[ColoradoTree]

Emily Arbuthnott continues to crush it in the classroom, headlining the Pac-12 All-Academic First Team with a 4.14 GPA as an Economics major. All the rest of our eligible* student-athletes were Honorable Mention selections--Shin, Higuchi, Gordon, Lampl, and Lord. 

https://pac-12.com/article/2019/05/10/pa...emic-teams
https://gostanford.com/news/2019/5/14/wo...onors.aspx

Interestingly, the Pac-12 release doesn't mention the GPAs of the Honorable Mention picks, but the Stanford release does. (The Stanford release notes that Higuchi has a 3.42 in HumBio, Lampl has a 3.34 in in STS, and Lord has a 3.24 in Public Policy. Shin (3.44) and Gordon (3.38) are as yet undeclared. Seems weirdly invasive that we should now know these things, really. Sure, trumpet the First Team folks, I guess, but do I really need to know everyone's GPA? I prefer the Pac-12's approach, which was to give the GPAs and majors of the First and Second team, but then just list the Honorable Mention folks.)

* To be eligible, you have to be at least a sophomore, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and play in at least 50 percent of the team's matches. From looking at the selections, I don't see anyone that plays doubles but not singles, like Kimberly Yee, so I can't be sure whether those folks were deemed not to have played in 50% of the team matches because they didn't play singles, or if those doubles-only folks fell short on the GPA front.

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I've never understood why they schedule these matches 2 hours apart. They will rarely be done in 2 hours. I hope they are planning to use 12 of the 100+ courts available at the site. And if they're going to do that, why not schedule them in 2 waves of 2 matches each, separated by enough time for the refs to recover?

The answer is "sort of." Yes, they're going to use 12 courts, albeit not equally. The 1st, 3rd, and 4th quarterfinals will be on Courts 1 through 6, while the 2nd quarterfinal (ours) will be on Courts 7-12. If the Tennis Channel weren't involved, they'd use both sets of courts equally, but it would make sense to me if TV is just set up for one set of courts for cost/simplicity's sake. I don't think they expect the 3rd quarterfinal to finish within 2 hours, but the "not before" scheduling format ensures the last teams are ready to go in case it does, so they don't have a lot of airtime they have to fill between matches--they want to get that second televised match on as soon as they an after the first. I'm assuming that South Carolina and Duke will watch Georgia-Vanderbilt closely enough to know when they need to start warming up, and then they'll probably do that on 7-12. 

And as for the 100+ courts on the site, the 12 they have set up for college tennis (with bleachers, a scoreboard, live streaming capability, and a little more space between the courts) are off to the side from the rest of the site. You could find scattered courts around the rest of the grounds if you needed to, but you wouldn't have bleachers for fans, the atmosphere would be isolated and wouldn't lend itself well to coaching, and you wouldn't have a scoreboard, so you'd be playing blind to what the rest of your teammates were doing. (And we wouldn't know what's going on, either, unless they had a runner to come update the scores after each game.)

Assuming it works like yesterday, the first match will still be going on when the second match starts up, with a second set of officials. Then the second quarterfinal might be done when the third quarterfinal starts, so you'd have to use that first set of officials again just in case the second quarter isn't done yet. I don't know how they're splitting up chair umpire assignments, but I assume the ones who work the second quarterfinal would then work the fourth so each set gets two matches.

So, really, you end up with the following schedule on Courts 1-6, which is a lot more sensible (assuming the officials that worked the second quarterfinal on 7-12 slide over to 1-6 for the last one):

9:00am: (2) UNC vs. (7) UCLA
2:00pm: (1) Georgia vs. (8) Vanderbilt
NB 4:00pm: (4) South Carolina vs. (5) Duke