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Suresh Ramamurthi named Lindsey Wilson Tennis Coach

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Suresh Ramamurthi named Lindsey Wilson Tennis Coach

Suresh Ramamurthi has been named Lindsey Wilson College’s men and women’s tennis head coach, Lindsey Wilson athletics director Willis Pooler announced on Wednesday.

Ramamurthi takes over for Randall Knox, who resigned following the 2019 season.

“I would like to thank Mr. Willis Pooler and Mr. Chris Wells, for this opportunity and I am honored to lead the men and women’s tennis programs at LWC,” Ramamurthi said. “I am excited to join the Lindsey Wilson Blue Raider family. I am impressed with the campus energy and topnotch facilities.

“My aim is to continue the strong tradition of competing in the postseason and developing championship minded student-athletes,” Ramamurthi added. “I believe in sharing my ABC principles – Always Be Committed”

Ramamurthi comes to Lindsey Wilson after serving as the head tennis professional and director at the New Milford Tennis & Swim Club in Milford, Connecticut and head professional and director in instruction at South Seas Island Resort in Captiva, Florida.

“I am pleased to announce the hiring of Suresh Ramamurthi as our new men and women’s tennis coach,” Pooler said. “He has a lifetime of experience in the game and was highly successful at Kutztown University for 15 years with limited resources.

“He has the coaching and recruiting experience to lead our program back to being one of the elite programs in the NAIA,” Pooler added. “Most importantly, he will strive to ensure our student-athletes have a good experience and are successful people; in academics and athletics. I’m looking forward to working with him and watching our programs grow under his leadership.”

Prior to his work as a teaching professional, Ramamurthi coached at Kutztown (Pa.) University for 15 seasons leading the NCAADivision II institution to 11 conference titles. The Kutztown men reached 11 straight NCAA East Regional qualifiers, winning five consecutive regional titles. He departed Kutztown as the program’s all-time coaching wins leader with a 219-75 men’s coaching record and a 117-146 women’s mark.

Ramamurthi earned USTA Middle States Coach of the Year in both 2009 and 2010 and is a five-time Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and NCAA East Region Coach of the Year.

Ramamurthi served three years as an NCAA & ITA Regional Committee Chair and continues to be an advising staff member for Wilson / Head Racquet Sports. Ramamurthi holds an Elite Professional 1 certification from the United States Professional Tennis Association.

In addition to his collegiate coaching career, Ramamurthi served as the traveling ATP tour coach for David DiLucia and the WTA tour coach for Victoria Duval.

Ramamurthi is a 1983 graduate of the University of Poona, in Maharashtra, India, with a master’s degree in economics and accounting. He was a four-year member of the varsity tennis team, representing Poona at the Indian National Championships.

Lindsey Wilson men and women’s tennis won the Mid-South Conference regular-season and tournament titles last season. Both teams reached the NAIA National Tournament’s second round — the 17th consecutive national tournament appearance for the men’s program and 15th for the Blue Raider women.

LINK: http://www.lindseyathletics.com/article/11717.php

2019 Lindsey Wilson volleyball schedule released

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2019 Lindsey Wilson Volleyball schedule released

First-year Lindsey Wilson volleyball coach Jerry Forbes announced the 2019 Blue Raider schedule today.

Lindsey Wilson has a tough slate on the docket for the 2019 campaign.

The schedule features 32 regular-season matches, 22 of which are away from Biggers Sports Center. The road challenges include a trio of classics, seven matches against national-tournament qualifiers from a year ago and a meeting with all four teams who reached the national semifinals in 2018.

Lindsey Wilson opens the 2019 season at home against Asbury (Ky.) at 6 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Aug. 20. The Blue Raiders enter the season with a program-record 73-match home winning streak.

The Blue Raiders hit the road for the next two weekends in classics.

Lindsey Wilson faces Point (Ga.) Reinhardt (Ga.), Loyola (La.) and Union (Ky.) in the Mid-South Challenge on Aug. 23-24 in Bowling Green. Reinhardt qualified for the national tournament in 2018.

The Blue Raiders face three teams that will be nationally ranked in the preseason poll at the Missouri Baptist Classic on Aug. 30-31 in St. Louis, Missouri. Lindsey Wilson meets Missouri Baptist and Midland (Neb.) during the first day and squares off with Viterbo (Wisc.) on the final day of the classic. Viterbo and Midland both advanced to the national tournament semifinals last season. Missouri Baptist reached the knockout stage of last season’s national tournament.

September kicks off Mid-South Conference action as the Blue Raiders continue their life on the road, facing off with Shawnee State (Ohio) on Sept. 4, Pikeville (Ky.) on Sept. 5 and Cumberlands (Ky.) on Sept. 10.

The Blue Raiders first home MSC match comes on Sept. 13 as Life (Ga.) invades Biggers Sports Center.

The final classic of the season for the Blue Raiders comes in mid-October as Lindsey Wilson travels to the Hampton Inn Classic hosted by Columbia (Mo.) in Columbia, Mo.

The Blue Raiders face Kansas Wesleyan and defending national champion Park (Mo.) on the first day and William Woods (Mo.) and host Columbia — last season’s national tournament runner-up — on the final day of the event.

Postseason play is slated for Nov. 14-16 with the Mid-South Conference Tournament in Bowling Green. The NAIA National Championship Opening Round matchups are set for Nov. 23 at host campuses across the country with the NAIA National Tournament final site is set to run Dec. 3-7 at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa.

LINK: http://www.lindseyathletics.com/article/11716.php

Lindsey Wilson Athletics boasts 20 NAIA Scholar Teams in 2018-19

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Twenty Lindsey Wilson College athletic programs earned 2018-19 NAIA Scholar-Team honors, NAIA officials announced on Monday.

The 20 teams are a department record eclipsing the 16 scholar teams in 2013-14.

Since the inception of the award in 2006-07, 155 Lindsey Wilson teams have earned the national honor. Lindsey Wilson has had at least 10 NAIA Scholar Teams each of the last 10 years.

To be considered for the NAIA Scholar-Team award, a team must have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average as defined by the institution. The team grade point average includes all student-athletes on the eligibility certificate.

Two Lindsey Wilson teams not associated with the NAIA also accomplished the feat giving the LWC athletics department 22 teams with at least a 3.0 GPA for the 2018-19 academic year.

Women’s soccer produced the top Lindsey Wilson grade point average in 2018-19. The women’s soccer program produced a 3.77 GPA for the academic year. It marks the sixth time in the last eight seasons and seventh time overall the women’s soccer program has boasted the highest team GPA at Lindsey Wilson.

Women’s swimming produced a 3.65 team GPA while volleyball earned a 3.63 team GPA to finish just behind women’s soccer.

Other Lindsey Wilson NAIA Scholar Teams include women’s golf (3.57), women’s tennis (3.41), men’s tennis (3.39), men’s golf (3.35), men’s swimming (3.35), women’s bowling (3.30), men’s cross country (3.25), softball (3.23), women’s basketball (3.18), women’s cross country (3.18), wrestling (3.15), men’s outdoor track & field (3.10), men’s indoor track & field (3.09), women’s indoor track & field (3.07), women’s outdoor track & field (3.07), men’s soccer (3.08), and cheerleading (3.02).

Archery (3.05) and cycling (3.23) — to two Lindsey Wilson non-NAIA teams — also achieved a team GPA of 3.0.

A total of 1,939 total NAIA teams earned the distinction during 2018-19.

http://www.lindseyathletics.com/article/11715.php

Indians Advance to Second Round of 5th Region Tourney

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The Adair County Indians were able to overcome an early deficit to win by double digits in the first round of the 5th region tournament on Thursday. The Indians took down the Central Hardin Bruins by a score of 64-52.

“We played a great defensive game,” says head coach Deron Breeze. “I’ve been saying it all year, we have to keep the score low in order to give ourselves the best chance to win in the postseason.”

The Bruins had a great game plan that revolved around a stingy 2-3-matchup zone defense. The Bruins outrebounded the Indians in the first half, but the Tribe ended up outrebounding Central Hardin by double digits in the second half. Once the Indians started to hit a few jump shots, the Bruin defense had to speed up the game. The ACHS bench made an excellent adjustment coming out of halftime by running the “four corners” offense; an offense dedicated to spreading the floor, holding the ball, and forcing zone defenses to play man-to-man concepts.

“We wanted to slow the game down and make them come out and guard us,” says Breeze. “That was something we talked about in our preparation.”

Overall, the Indians were locked in on every single play on each end of the floor, leading to one of their best team performances of the season.

Zion Harmon led the team in scoring with 26 points, six assists, two steals, and two rebounds. Dre Boyd finished with 15 points and 9 rebounds while shooting seven of eight from the field; Boyd had two very nice two-handed dunks as well. Senior Hunter Cundiff brought energy and toughness, just like he always does, to finish with 15 points and seven rebounds. The Bruins did their best to shut down Corey Melton offensively, but Melton contributed in a big way defensively and by rebounding; Melton finished with three points, a team-high 11 rebounds, with one steal and one assist. Blane Frazier played great defense and hit his only shot, a three pointer from the left wing. Frazier also added two steals and two rebounds to the stat sheet. Late in the game, Byron Corbin came in and sunk two key throws to help secure the double-digit win for the Tribe.

“We were happy to get the win and now we have to start working on our game plan for LaRue,” says Breeze.

The Indians will play LaRue County in the second round of the regional tournament Monday night at Marion County High School at 7:45 CT. Be sure to come out and support your Indians as they look to return to the region championship for the second consecutive season.

 

By Adam Capps

Assistant Editor

adam@adairvoice.com

A large crowd came out to watch the Indians take down the Central Hardin Bruins in the first round of the 5th region tournament held at Marion County High School.

 

 

 

Zion Harmon fires a no-look pass to Dre Boyd who finished the play with a nice two handed slam at the rim.

Adair Basketball Games Location Change

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The ACHS Indians and Lady Indians are set to take on Hart County tonight. The ladies are set to play at 5:30 while the boy’s team will tip-off at 7 p.m.

The location for this game has been changed to Hart Memorial Gymnasium located at 1400 North Jackson Hwy., Hardyville, KY, 42746

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