Widom Was Selected To The ITA-USA All-Star Team
June 10, 2003
CORAL GABLES, Fla.-University of Miami men’s tennis sophomore Todd Widom (Coral Springs, Fla.) will travel to Japan as one of the ten players making up the Intercollegiate Tennis Association-USA All-Star Team taking part in the Centennial Celebration for Waseda University of Tokyo.
The ITA-USA All-Star Team will help Waseda University celebrate its 100th anniversary of tennis by competing in two exhibition matches in Tokyo. Matches are scheduled to take place at the 10,000-seat Ariake Stadium.
On June 14 the ITA-USA All-Stars will face Waseda University, which earned the No. 1 ranking in Japan last year, and on June 15 they will face a Japanese All-Star Team.
Both matches will use a format similar to the one World Team Tennis uses, which features men and women competing together on the same team in men’s and women’s singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.
The ITA-USA All-Star Team, which includes men and women from all the ITA’s divisions (NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA and Junior/Community College), will be coached by Bob Bayliss of Notre Dame and Ann Lebedeff of Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.) Colleges.
The ten players are: Adam Davidson of Azusa Pacific (Calif.), Amer Delic of Illinois, Ryan Dunne of Florida Southern, John Paul Fruttero of California, Mary Ellen Gordon of Emory (Ga.), Raquel Kops-Jones of California, Amber Liu of Stanford, Leslie Stewart of Tyler (Texas) Junior College, Keiko Tokuda of Stanford and Widom.
Criteria for the player selections included: the player’s national ranking(s); sportsmanship, leadership and character; and tennis playing accomplishments, honors and awards. The ITA Board of Directors made the selections.
Widom earned All-American status for the second year in a row after reaching the semifinals of the NCAA Singles Championship. He wrapped up his sophomore campaign with a 27-9 overall singles record.
