The first part of our season was very demanding with lots of tough matches and travel too. Experiencing that can only help our team improve and learn more about what it takes to compete at this level of college tennis. I'm looking forward to the next phase of our season leading up to Spring Break. We should be fresh and ready to go.

The Gaels are riding a good streak of matches and competing well. They have a crafty team of players and it's going to be tough to play them in Moraga.

Cal Poly is a feisty team. We have always had intense battles with them and the home team has come away victorious the last four years. Their team is pretty well experienced and deep. John Nguyen has had a solid year with impressive wins at the top position.

I like the format as it is both challenging and creative. It provides us the opportunity to test our competitiveness throughout the weekend and keeps us on our toes. I believe it is taking place at the right time of the season as our guys continue to improve competing at a high level.

Against Davis, our level of play went up a notch. The guys got a lot of the jitters out in the morning and responded really, really well in such a short time since we played back-to back matches. I was happy for the freshmen to get their dual matches out of the way.

It's nice to see that our recruiting efforts are being noticed and in company with a lot of very good tennis programs. We've made a commitment to competing with the top schools because we strongly feel that Santa Clara has so much to offer and is a great place for the college tennis experience. We have a solid nucleus of players that have the potential to accomplish many things and it depends on how we go about bringing it to reality.

Sacramento State is another team that can cause trouble. They fight well and have talented players that can bring a top-level game at any time. We've been pretty successful with them the last several years, but can certainly not take anything for granted.

Everyone was really anxious to get the season started. To get those two matches under our belts was really good.

The Pro-Am has become one of our favorite events of the year and it should be a fun follow-up to our alumni reunion we held last month. The draw size has grown considerable over the last several years, which is great to see, as we take pride in recognizing our past, the present, and the future of Bronco Tennis.

This was an important match for us, not only for conference reasons, but also for our development as we close out a challenging first third of our season. We've been on the road four weekends in a row and you could see that it was having an impact on the guys.