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Tim Cleland
Coach Tim Cleland enters his
33rd season as head coach of DHS Tennis with the Fall 2008 boys' tennis
season.
He has helped DHS Tennis become one of Indiana's premier high school tennis
programs.
352
victories, 45
losses
14 years as girls' coach
242
victories,
35
losses
Total career record
594
victories,
80 losses
List of Indiana HS Tennis Coach
Career Victory Leaders
Member, Indiana HS Tennis Hall of
Fame, 2008
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
Team Highlights
- 2004 Boys' State Finals (3rd Place)
- 2000 Girls' State Finals (3rd Place)
- 13 consecutive boys' regional championships (1995-current)
- 4 consecutive girls' regional championships (2004-2008)
- State Top 10 boys' rankings (12 consecutive seasons 1996-current)
- 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, 16 of previous 32 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 current)
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
- Grew up in Columbus, Indiana
- Graduated from
Hauser HS in Hope, Ind. (1981)
All-State Tennis Team, senior year
Played Varsity Baseball
Graduated summa cum laude from
Ball State University
(1987)
Worked 13 years as sports journalist (1983-1996)
Teaches journalism and U.S. History at Delta HS (1998-current)
Tennis Instructor,
Muncie Family YMCA
(1989-current)
President,
Indiana HS Tennis Coaches
Association
(1999-current)
Boys Assistant Coach
Craig Vickery
Craig played tennis at
Winchester Community High School and competed in tennis, golf and volleyball at Greenville College in Illinois. He
served as head boys' tennis coach and head girls' tennis coach at Winchester HS
before becoming the Delta boys' assistant coach in the Fall of 2005. Craig
lives in Winchester with his wife, Amy. He is an engineer at Saint Gobain
company in Muncie.
Girls Assistant Coach / Middle
School 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
junior at Ball State University majoring in Psychology. In addition to
helping with the girls' team, Stephen helps develop the Delta Tennis middle school program
in the spring.
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