WCC Tennis Championships Central
WCC All-Conference Video Announcement
Stockton, Calif. - Pacific's Sem Verbeek was named West Coast Conference men's tennis Player of the Year, while head coach Ryan Redondo earned Coach of the Year honors. Verbeek & Jose Chamba were also named All-WCC in Doubles.
Verbeek capped his senior campaign at Pacific with an 18-2 overall record in singles, including 9-0 in West Coast Conference play. He won his final nine matches in a row, and also won the first set in every single one of his unfinished matches.
Verbeek, a native of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is ranked No. 113 this week, and his two losses on the season came to Felipe Soares of Texas Tech, who was ranked No. 8 and to Jaime Barajas of Utah State, whom he split two meetings with. Verbeek also posted a win over No. 38 Alec Adamson of UC Davis, and led No. 6 Tom Fawcett of Stanford after winning the first set 6-1 before the match went unfinished.
Every single one of Verbeek's singles matches came at the first singles spot as he ran the table against the No. 1 singles player for each team in the West Coast Conference.
Chamba and Verbeek are the No. 85 doubles pairing and earned All-West Coast Conference honors after posting a 7-3 record as a tandem, including 2-0 in WCC play, all at No. 1 doubles. Overall, Chamba went 8-6 in doubles action, with all eight wins at the No. 1 doubles spot. Verbeek owned a 14-5 mark in doubles play with a variety of partners. Chamba, a sophomore from Guayaquil, Ecuador, also won seven singles matches this season.
Redondo was named West Coast Conference Coach of the Year for the first time in three seasons in the conference. In his sixth year at Pacific as Director of Tennis and Head Men's Tennis Coach, Redondo had previously won Big West Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2013.
Redondo guided the Tigers to a 14-12 overall record this season, including a 6-3 WCC mark. The Tigers posted three wins over ranked teams, and dropped just one contest to teams outside the ITA Top 70 rankings.
Pacific is ranked No. 67 in the latest installment of the ITA Rankings. The Tigers finished in a three-way tie for third in the WCC, and earned the four seed in the West Coast Conference Tennis Championship.
The Tigers will face Portland on Thursday at 10 a.m. at Biszantz Family Tennis Center in Claremont, Calif. Pacific will look to avenge a road loss at Portland on April 17, when the Pilots became the lone team outside of the Top 70 to top the Tigers. Portland finished the regular season 15-7 overall and 6-3 in the WCC while going undefeated at home.
The winner of Pacific and Portland meets the top seed, San Diego on Friday (10 a.m.) in the semifinals. The Toreros are ranked No. 30 and went 9-0 in WCC play.
