<\/p>\n
Looking to add a boost in its women\u2019s tennis program, Sinclair Community College handed the team back to former coach David Pence in May.<\/p>\n
A former stand out on the Pride tennis team in the mid 1990\u2019s, Pence coached both men\u2019s and women\u2019s tennis during a four-year stint from 1999-2002. Pence left the program due to family issues, but when athletic director Jack Giambrone offered Pence the position after former coach Kristen Gibson took another job, he gladly accepted.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a good opportunity to get this team back on track again,\u201d Pence said. \u201cIt\u2019s possible, but it\u2019s all up to the recruiting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The minimum roster number consists of six players and Pence said he isn\u2019t sure of the amount of returning players he will have from last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goal is to get a team that is students first,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about students learning how to succeed. I\u2019m looking for good students that work hard and can go to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pence experienced success with the Pride both on the court and off. At the time, Pence was a 35-year-old member of the men\u2019s team and earned All-American honors while leading the Pride to a national berth in both of his seasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was probably one of the best teams Sinclair ever had,\u201d Pence said.<\/p>\n
Giambrone is excited to see Pence help lift the program back to its past standards.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to bring to us a world of experience,\u201d he said. \u201c(Tennis) is probably one of the most decorated sports programs we have here on campus that\u2019s made numerous national trips.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Dave will do a great job and we\u2019re real excited to get the program back and going again.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Looking to add a boost in its women\u2019s tennis program, Sinclair Community College handed the team back to former coach David Pence in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[556,558,1272,559,14,557],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-athletics","tag-david","tag-joseph-stueve","tag-pence","tag-sinclair","tag-tennis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-z6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}