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Tim Cleland
Coach Tim Cleland enters his
37th season as head coach of Delta High School Tennis with the Fall 2010 boys' tennis
season.
He has helped DHS Tennis become one of Indiana's premier high school tennis
programs.
385
victories, 60
losses
16 years as girls' coach
269
victories,
50
losses
Total career record
654
victories,
110 losses
List of Indiana HS Tennis Coach
Career Victory Leaders
Member,
Indiana HS Tennis Hall of
Fame, 2008
(Read about his induction)
One of eight finalists, National Boys' Tennis Coach of the Year, 2005-06
(award given by the National Federation of High School Coaches)
Member, Delaware County Athletic Hall of Fame, 2004
State Boys' Coach of the Year, 2004
State Girls' Coach of the Year, 2000
Finalist, State Coach of the Year, three other years
Central Indiana Tennis Association Service Award, 2006
Indiana Dollars for Scholars "Hoosier Hero" Award, 2010
Team Highlights
- 2004 Boys' State Finals (3rd Place)
- 2000 Girls' State Finals (3rd Place)
- 15 consecutive boys' regional championships (1995-current)
- 4 consecutive girls' regional championships (2004-2008)
- State Top 10 boys' rankings (12 consecutive seasons 1996-2007)
- State Top 10 rankings (streak of 17 straight boys'/girls' seasons, Fall
1999-Fall 2008)
- Girls' Final Eight (5 times)
- Boys' Final Eight (8 times)
- Teams or Individuals at State Finals, 17 of previous 36 seasons
- #3 Final State Ranking (boys 2004 -- highest ranking in school history)
- 155 straight Hoosier Heritage Conference victories -- combined boys and
girls (Fall 1997 to Spring 2008)
- Has coached 28 All-State Doubles players, 12 All-State Singles players, and
9 Academic All-State players
Individual Highlights
- Alison Peckinpaugh, Mental Attitude Award Winner at State Finals (2000)
- Hayley Hall, State Singles Runner-Up (2006)
- Dan Klingenberg / Jeff Price, State Doubles Runner-Up (2007)
- Sarah Peckinpaugh/Kat Yadon, State Doubles Runner-Up (2002)
- Sarah Peckinpaugh/Ashli Smith, State Doubles Runner-Up (2001)
- Daniel Jackson / Kelly Robbins, State Doubles Runner-Up (2001)
- Kaus Christopher, State Singles 3rd Place (1991)
- Kate Peckinpaugh / Andrea Bookmyer, State Doubles 3rd Place (1995)
- Patrick Bryan / Alan Robinson, State Doubles 3rd Place (2001)
- Aly Ferguson / Andrea Bookmyer, State Doubles 3rd Place (1997)
- Aly Ferguson / Andrea Bookmyer, State Doubles 4th Place (1996)
- Zach Ervin, State Singles 4th Place (2006)
- Katie Bryan / Kristin Crider, State Doubles 4th Place (2005)
- Zach Ervin, Dan Klingenberg, Kaus Christopher, Andy Rector, Bob Darby, J.D. Greenlee, Blain Keller, Daniel Jackson,
Billy Ruxton, Ryan Orr, Caleb Cooper, Adrienne Campbell, Beth Miller, Hayley Hall,
Kristin McKinney all NCAA Division
I or Division II tennis players
- Numerous other smaller college tennis participants
Background
Hauser HS in Hope, Ind. (1981)
All-State Tennis Team, senior year
Played Varsity Baseball and Varsity Tennis
Graduated summa cum laude from
Ball State University
(1987)
Worked 13 years as sports journalist (1983-1996)
Teaches journalism at
Delta HS (1998-current)
Tennis Instructor,
Muncie Family YMCA
(1989-current)
President,
Indiana HS Tennis Coaches
Association
(1999-current)
Boys Volunteer Assistant Coach
Girls Assistant Coach
Stephen Hopkins
Stephen,
a 2006 Delta graduate, played four years of Delta Tennis. He played #1 Varsity
doubles his senior year and earned All-State Doubles honors as well as Academic
All-State Honorable Mention. As a junior, Stephen earned a varsity letter for
the Eagles' team that placed third in the IHSAA Team State Finals. He is a
graduate student at Ball State University studying Psychology. In addition to
helping with the boys' and girls' teams, Stephen helps develop the Delta Tennis middle school program
in the spring.
Boys Assistant Coach
Craig Vickery
Craig, an engineer at Saint Gobain Container
Corporation in Muncie, returns as boys' assistant coach, a role that he
filled for four seasons prior to sitting out the 2009 season. He also
spent nine seasons as head coach at Winchester Community High School. Craig and
his wife, Amy, have one son, Caleb, and live in Winchester.
Boys Assistant Coach
Josh Cooper
Josh, pastor at The Bridge church in Muncie,
will be boys' assistant coach for the first time in the 2010 season. Josh was an
All-State Doubles player at DHS in 1997 and 1998. He then played baseball
at Taylor University. Josh has coaching experience as an assistant boys'
coach at Yorktown High School. Josh and his wife, Jill, live in Muncie. |
