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university of georgia 2014 men's tennis MATCH NOTES SIX-TIME NCAA CHAMPIONS: 1985, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008 36-TIME SEC CHAMPIONS Sports Communications Contacts: Kate Burkholder (kateburk@sports.uga.edu) & Ben Beaty (bbeaty@sports.uga.edu) 706-542-1621 2014 SCHEDULE (0-0, 0-0) Date Opponent/Tournament Site Time Jan. 25 Columbia& Athens, Ga. 1 p.m. Jan. 26 Washington/Stanford& Athens, Ga. 5 p.m. Jan. 31 USC% Los Angeles 4 p.m. Feb. 2 UCLA% Los Angeles 1 p.m. Feb. 6 East Tennessee State Athens, Ga. 3:30 p.m. Feb. 14-17 ITA Team Indoor Houston, Texas TBA Feb. 27 Georgia Tech Athens, Ga. 2:30 pm March 2 at Tennessee* Knoxville, Tenn. TBA March 7 Mississippi State* Athens, Ga. 2:30 p.m. March 9 Ole Miss* Athens, Ga. 1 p.m. March 12 Ohio State Athens, Ga. 2:30 p.m. March 14 at South Carolina* Columbia, S.C. 5 p.m. March 16 at Florida* Gainesville, Fla. 1 p.m. March 21 Kentucky* Athens, Ga. 4:30 p.m. March 23 Vanderbilt* Athens, Ga. 1 p.m. March 28 at Texas A&M* College Station, Tx. 7 p.m. April 4 Arkansas* Athens, Ga. 5 p.m. April 6 LSU* Athens, Ga. 1 p.m. April 11 at Alabama* Tuscaloosa, Ala. 6 p.m. April 13 at Auburn* Auburn, Ala. 2 p.m. April 18-21 SEC Tournament Nashville, Tenn. TBA May 9-11 NCAA 1st & 2nd Rounds TBA TBA May 15-26 NCAA Championships Athens, Ga. TBA All Times Eastern & subject to change. * SEC match % SEC/Pac 12 Showdown & ITA Kickoff 2014 roster Name Ht. Cl. Hometown / Previous School Garrett Brasseaux 5-7 Sr. Mandeville, La./St. Paul s Eric Diaz 6-2 Jr. Athens, Ga./Msgr. Donovan Paul Oosterbaan 6-7 Fr. Kalamazoo, Mich./Hackett Catholic Central Nathan Pasha 6-3 Jr. Atlanta, Ga./Kaplan Online Hernus Pieters 6-1 Sr. Pretoria, South Africa/Hoerskool Waterkloof Austin Smith 6-1 So. Cumming, Ga./Keystone Ben Wagland 6-3 So. Sydney, Australia/Knox Grammar School Nick Wood 5-10 So. Knoxville, Tenn./Knoxville Catholic Head Coach: Manuel Diaz (26th season) Associate Head Coach: Will Glenn (9th season) Volunteer Coach: Tristan Venables (2nd season) Administrative Assistant: Lynn Steedman Manager: Austin Penman Athletic Trainer: Joe Luzenski 2014 ITA Kickoff Weekend Saturday & Sunday, Jan. 25-26 Lindsey Hopkins Indoor Facility Athens, Ga. Georgia «Washington «Stanford «Columbia Matches #1 & 2 ITA KICKOFF WEEKEND: The third-ranked Georgia men s tennis team will host one of the 15 legs of the 2014 ITA Kickoff Weekend Jan. 25-26 as the event heads to Athens for the sixth straight season. Georgia will welcome No. 36 Washington, No. 40 Stanford, and No. 43 Columbia to the Lindsey Hopkins Indoor Facility. The Bulldogs will be the No. 1 seed, followed by the Huskies, Cardinal, and Lions. The Nos. 1 and 4 seeds and the Nos. 2 and 3 seeds will play one another in the first rounds on Saturday, with the winners to play a deciding championship match on Sunday with a bid to the prestigious ITA National Team Indoor Championships on the line. Live scoring (all four matches) and the Georgia Tennis Live Chat (Georgia matches only) will be available on Georgiadogs.com for the duration of the tournament. All action is free and open to the public. A tournament central page including full schedule of events and results can be found on Georgiadogs. com. ABOUT THE ITA KICKOFF: In all, 60 teams are competing for a place in the National Team Indoor in Houston Feb. 14-17, 2014. Host Texas A&M receives an automatic bid, leaving 15 spots available for each regional winner to complete the competitive 16-team field. Hosts were decided based on final 2013 rankings. The Bulldogs have won the National Team Indoor twice (2006, 07) and have reached the finals six times (1982, 94, 95, 97, 98, and 2009). The tournament began in 1973 and Georgia has played in it every year except 2003. Most recently, the Bulldogs posted Kickoff Weekend victories over Vanderbilt and Virginia Commonwealth to reach the final site in Seattle a year ago, where the squad advanced to the quarterfinals. LAST TIME OUT: The Georgia men s tennis team opened its spring season last weekend at the MLK Invitational on the campus of Georgia Tech. Though no team scores were recorded, junior Nathan Pasha was crowned the singles champion as he went 3-0 in the tournament including a victory over 15th-ranked Nik Scholtz of Ole Miss. In all, Georgia went a combined 20-7 in singles & doubles action vs. players from Ole Miss, Memphis, and Tech. IN THE RANKINGS: The Georgia men s tennis team came in at No. 3 in the 2014 ITA preseason rankings released on Jan. 2, and remained there in the fol-

quick facts Location...Athens, Ga. Enrollment...34,180 Founded...1785 Nickname...Bulldogs Colors...Red & Black Conference... Southeastern (SEC) Facility...Dan Magill Tennis Complex... Henry Feild Stadium/Lindsey Hopkins Indoor Facility President...Jere W. Morehead Athletic Director...Greg McGarity Faculty Athletics Representative... David Shipley MEN S TENNIS STAFF Head Coach...Manuel Diaz (Georgia 75) 26th season Overall Record/Record at Georgia... 585-122 (.827)/same Associate Head Coach... Will Glenn (Georgia 03) 9th season Volunteer Coach... Tristan Venables 2nd season Administrative Assistant...Lynn Steedman Athletic Trainer...Joe Luzenski Strength & Conditioning Coach...Katrin Koch Manager... Austin Penman Office Phone/Fax... 706-542-9348 / 706-542-8062 2013 SEASON IN REVIEW Overall Record... 26-5 SEC Record... 11-1 (1st East/Overall) Postseason... SEC Tournament Champions/NCAA Semifinals Final Ranking... No. 3 (ITA) looking at the bulldogs Starters Returning/Lost... 5/0 Letterwinners Returning/Lost... 6/1 All-Americans Returning/Lost... 2/0 Newcomers...1 (L-R): Nick Wood, Hernus Pieters, Austin Smith, Nathan Pasha, Paul Oosterbaan, Ben Wagland, Eric Diaz, Garrett Brasseaux. lowing edition released Jan. 21. The Bulldogs return the top five singles players from last year s squad that reached the NCAA semifinals. It marked the third straight year Georgia has been ranked in the preseason top-five. UGA finished the 2013 season ranked third. In the singles rankings, Austin Smith is No. 12, followed by Nathan Pasha at No. 21, Garrett Brasseaux at No. 47, Ben Wagland at No. 48 and Nick Wood at No. 102. Smith - unranked in the fall - led the Bulldogs with 15 wins, including seven against ranked opponents. He reached the quarterfinals of the All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla., and also made the final of the SEC Fall Classic in Nashville. Pasha notched 13 wins, including titles at the ITA Southeast Regional Championships at Georgia Tech and the Southern Intercollegiate Championships in Athens. In doubles, Hernus Pieters and Ben Wagland are ranked 12th, while the tandem of Pasha and Pieters is No. 59. RECAPPING THE FALL: Georgia players won three singles titles and reached the final of another fall tournament to start the 2013-14 season. Sophomore Austin Smith led the Bulldogs with 15 wins, including seven against ranked opponents. He reached the quarterfinals of the All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla., and also made the final of the SEC Fall Classic in Nashville. Nathan Pasha notched 13 wins, including titles at the ITA Southeast Regional Championships at Georgia Tech and the Southern Intercollegiate Championships in Athens. Pasha and Smith represented UGA in the singles draw of the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships in New York, while senior Garrett Brasseaux was named champion of the Bulldog Scramble in November. In doubles, the team of Hernus Pieters and Ben Wagland led the team with six wins. BULLDOGS PICKED TO WIN SEC AGAIN: The No. 3 Georgia men s tennis team was tabbed to win the Southeastern Conference title in a vote of the league s 13 head coaches released Jan. 16 by the SEC office. Georgia swept the 2013 regular-season and tournament titles before advancing to the NCAA semifinals with a 26-5 (11-1) record. The Bulldogs return the top five singles players from that squad. The preseason coaches poll is compiled using a 13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 tally. Each vote counts as one point. Georgia ended with 155 total points, followed by Tennessee (137), Texas A&M (132), Kentucky (108), and Florida (105) to round out the top five. Georgia leads the SEC in overall conference titles (36) and regular-season crowns (27). OOSTERBAAN JOINS BULLDOGS IN JANUARY: Michigan native Paul Oosterbaan joined the Georgia team as an early enrollee, arriving in Athens in January in time for the spring 2014 season. Oosterbaan, who stands at 6-foot-8, earned a wild card into the main draw at the 2013 U.S. Open by winning the boys 18s doubles title at the USTA National Championship earlier this year in Kalamazoo. His other wins include the Clay Court doubles, boys 16s Winter Nationals singles, Lexington grade 4 ITF singles and the USTA 18s National Open.

He has been ranked as high as No. 8 by tennisrecruiting.net and was ranked No. 2 in the country in boys 16s. His father, JP, was a member of the 1989 University of Michigan men s basketball national championship team. GEORGIA TO HOST NCAA TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS AGAIN IN 2017: The University of Georgia will serve as the host site for the 2017 NCAA Division I Men s and Women s Tennis Championships, it was announced by the NCAA in December. The Dan Magill Tennis Complex has played host to the men s NCAA Championships 24 times and the women s NCAA Championships three times, in addition to three combined tournaments for a total of 30, most recently in 2012. UGA will also serve as host in May 2014. The Georgia men s tennis team has won six NCAA titles, including five in Athens. The women claimed the national title in 1994 and at home in 2000. ON DECK: The Bulldogs will again take on some of the best competition in the nation early in the season, as the squad prepares to head to the SEC/Pac-12 Showdown for meetings with two top-five foes next weekend in Los Angeles. There, the Bulldogs will face off against No. 4 USC on Feb. 1 and No. 2 UCLA on Feb. 2. THE MANUEL DIAZ FILE COACHING 26th season / 585-122 (.827) career record Four NCAA Championships (1999, 2001, 2007, 2008) One of only two active coaches with multiple NCAA Championships (Peter Smith, USC) Coached UGA to its first ITA Team Indoor National Championship in 2006, then went back-to-back, winning another in 2007 Three-time ITA National Coach of the Year (1995, 2001, 07) Six-time ITA Southeast Region Coach of the Year (1991, 92, 95, 2001, 06, 12) Five-time SEC Coach of the Year (1985, 95, 2001, 06, 07) 32 players have received 68 All-America honors 15 SEC regular-season titles, nine SEC Tournament titles (24 total) Finished the season ranked in the Top-5 19 times; finished Top-10 in 21 seasons and Top-25 in all 25 Appeared in NCAA Championship match 11 times (1989, 91, 93, 97, 98, 99, 2001, 02, 06, 07, 08) Seven individual singles National Champions Three individual doubles National Champions Seven four-time All-Americans 76 All-SEC selections Six four-time All-SEC honorees Four Academic All-Americans 44 Academic All-SEC accolades 15 SEC Scholar-Athlete Award winners Three Clayton-Wilhite Scholar-Athlete Award winners Three Joel Eaves Award winners Assistant Coach At UGA under Dan Magill from 1982-84; promoted to Associate Head Coach in 1985; named head coach for 1988-89 season upon Magill s retirement PLAYING DAYS College: University of Georgia (1972-75) Two-time All-American (1974-75) Three-time All-SEC selection (1973-75) Four-straight SEC team titles Seven SEC individual titles No. 6 singles and No. 3 doubles in 1972 No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles in 1973 No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles in 1974 No. 1 doubles in 1975 Two-time winner of Southern Collegiate Championships in singles in 1973-74 Southern Collegiate Doubles champion in 1973 Co-Captain of 1975 team that went 20-4 and won the SEC Championship Professional: Played professionally in the U.S., Europe and South America after college Recorded four wins against players ranked in the ATP Top 50 Team Tennis in Germany, 1980-81 Teaching Pro in Atlanta 1978-81 and in Puerto Rico from 1981-82 Puerto Rican Davis Cup Captain from 1992 to 1997 PERSONAL Married to the former Suzanne Rondeau of Toronto, Canada They have three sons: Manuel, III, 24, Eric, 21 (junior on the tennis team), and Alex, 15 Born March 16, 1953 in San Juan, Puerto Rico Graduated from Sacred Heart Academy, 1971

Overall record: 0-0 SEC: 0-0 Region: 0-0 Home: 0-0 Away: 0-0 Neutral: 0-0 Vs. Top 25: 0-0 vs. Last Singles Overall Dual Tour SEC 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ranked Streak 10 Garrett Brasseaux 10-1 0-0 10-1 0-0 -- -- -- -- -- -- 3-0 W7 9-1 Eric Diaz 3-4 0-0 3-4 0-0 -- -- -- -- -- -- 0-0 L2 3-4 Nathan Pasha 17-4 0-0 17-4 0-0 -- -- -- -- -- -- 4-2 W3 9-1 Hernus Pieters 13-7 0-0 13-7 0-0 -- -- -- -- -- -- 0-2 W6 8-2 Austin Smith 18-5 0-0 18-5 0-0 -- -- -- -- -- -- 8-4 W3 7-3 Ben Wagland 12-5 0-0 12-5 0-0 -- -- -- -- -- -- 2-2 W2 6-4 Nick Wood 7-4 0-0 7-4 0-0 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1-2 W3 6-4 TOTALS 80-30 0-0 80-30 0-0 -- -- -- -- -- -- 18-12 PERCENTAGE vs. Last Doubles Overall Dual Tour SEC 1 2 3 Ranked Streak 10 Pieters/Wagland 9-5 0-0 9-5 0-0 -- -- -- 2-1 W1 4-5 Smith/Wood 3-2 0-0 3-2 0-0 -- -- -- 0-1 L1 3-2 Pasha/Pieters 3-1 0-0 3-1 0-0 -- -- -- 1-1 L1 3-1 Brasseaux/Pasha 2-3 0-0 2-3 0-0 -- -- -- 1-0 L1 2-3 Diaz/Wood 0-2 0-0 0-2 0-0 -- -- -- 0-0 L2 0-2 Brasseaux/Diaz 2-1 0-0 2-1 0-0 -- -- -- 0-0 W1 2-1 Diaz/Smith 1-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 -- -- -- 0-0 W1 1-0 TOTALS 20-14 0-0 20-14 0-0 -- -- -- 4-3 PERCENTAGE.588.000.588.000 -- -- --.571 Match Results Singles Doubles Rank Date Opponent Result Record SEC Home Away Neutral 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 UGA Opp. J25 Columbia J26 Stan./Wash. F1 Southern Cal F2 UCLA F6 ETSU F14-17 ITA Indoor F27 Georgia Tech M2 Tennessee M7 Miss. State M9 Ole Miss M12 Ohio State M14 So. Carolina M16 Florida M21 Kentucky M23 Vanderbilt M28 Texas A&M A4 Arkansas A6 LSU A11 Alabama A13 Auburn A18-21 SEC Champs. M9-11 NCAA Reg. M15-26 NCAA Champs.

ITA Top 25) Rank Team Previous 1 University of Virginia 1 2 UCLA 2 3 University of Georgia 3 4 University of Southern California 4 5 Ohio State University 5 6 University of Tennessee 6 7 Baylor University 8 8 University of Kentucky 9 9 University of Oklahoma 10 10 University of Mississippi 11 11 Texas A&M University 12 12 Pepperdine 13 13 Mississippi State University 14 14 University of Florida 15 15 Vanderbilt University 16 16 California 17 17 Duke University 7 18 University of South Carolina 18 19 Wake Forest University 19 20 University of Texas 20 21 University of Memphis 21 22 University of Illinois 22 23 Louisiana State University 24 24 University of Tulsa 25 25 Clemson University 23 IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS Date Team Smith Pasha Brasseaux Wagland Wood Pieters/Wagland Pieters/Pasha J2 3 12 21 47 48 102 12 59 J21 3 X X X X X X X J29 F4 F11 F18 F25 M4 M11 M18 M25 A1 A8 A15 A22 M1 M27 J4 X = not released that week Dual Match Stats W L All Matches 0 0 Home 0 0 Away 0 0 Netural 0 0 SEC Matches 0 0 Home 0 0 Away 0 0 Neutral 0 0 vs. Ranked Opponents 0 0 No. 1-5 0 0 No. 6-10 0 0 No. 11-25 0 0 No. 26-50 0 0 No. 51-75 0 0 vs. Unranked Opponents 0 0 January 0 0 February 0 0 March 0 0 April 0 0 May 0 0 Sunday 0 0 Monday 0 0 Tuesday 0 0 Wednesday 0 0 Thursday 0 0 Friday 0 0 Saturday 0 0 Indoor 0 0 Outdoor 0 0 Winning Doubles 0 0 Losing Doubles 0 0 Not Playing Doubles 0 0 THE LAST TIME GEORGIA... Won at Home...5/11/13 vs. Northwestern, 4-0 Won on the Road... 4/7/13 vs. Arkansas, 4-1 Won At Neutral Site... 5/18/13 vs. Pepperdine (NCAA Championships), 4-2 Lost at Home... 5/20/12 vs. Pepperdine (NCAA Championships), 4-3 Lost on the Road...3/8/13 vs. Ole Miss, 4-3 Lost At Neutral Site...5/20/13 vs. Virginia (NCAA Championships), 4-1 Earned a Shutout...5/11/13 vs. Northwestern, 4-0 Was Shutout... 5/23/11 vs. Southern Cal (NCAA Championships), 4-0 Won the Doubles Point... 5/16/13 vs. Oklahoma (NCAA Championships), 4-1 Swept the Doubles Point... 3/4/13 vs. William & Mary, 7-0 Lost the Doubles Point...5/20/13 vs. Virginia (NCAA Championships), 4-1 Recorded Back-to-Back Shutouts...5/10/13 and 5/11/13 (Binghamton and Northwestern) Held a 5-match win streak...3/10/13-5/18/13 (17 matches) Held a 10-match win streak...3/10/13-5/18/13 (17 matches) Held a 15-match win streak...3/10/13-5/18/13 (17 matches) Held a 20-match win streak...2/4/07-2/16/08 (38 matches) Held a 25-match win streak...2/4/07-2/16/08 (38 matches) Held a 30-match win streak...2/4/07-2/16/08 (38 matches) Held a 35-match win streak...2/4/07-2/16/08 (38 matches) Held a 40-match win streak...3/23/70-5/1/71 (47 matches) Held a 45-match win streak...3/23/70-5/1/71 (47 matches) Garrett Brasseaux: Eric Diaz: Paul Oosterbaan: Nathan Pasha: Hernus Pieters: Austin Smith: Ben Wagland: Nick Wood: MATCH CLINCHERS