Hi all,
It's great to be out in Cary, NC for DIII individual NCAA nationals. The draws are not posted that I can see, they get made here on site and came out yesterday. Today has been a practice day, we've soaked in the team finals and gotten ourselves prepared. The NCAA also does a really nice banquet for the players to honor them on making it this far. Tomorrow, its chaired matches, national caliber opponents on every court and single elimination fun.
Matches were pushed back an hour because rain today lengthened the team matches. The men start singles at 9am with Whittie Andrew LaCava taking the courts, then at 11am Alyssa and Courtney will be side by side playing singles against Williams' Kristin Alotta and Middlebury's Leah Kepping respectively. Round 2 is at 2:30pm and they play doubles against Kate Klein and Corinne Rauck from Wash U in St Louis at 5pm. We're super excited to get this thing going! We'll have tweets coming with scores and the NCAA website has live scoring and they do have 3 courts being streamed live, but our first rounds are not on those courts.
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