UMBC head tennis coach Rob Hubbard named Oliver Steil as assistant coach for both the Retriever men’s and women’s tennis programs. Steil served as a graduate assistant tennis coach at the University of Texas-Pan American from 2006-09.

The date for UMBC’s fourth annual “Advantage Retriever” tennis fundraiser is set for Saturday, Sept. 12 at 6:00 p.m. at the Retriever Tennis Complex. This event is to help raise funds to make improvements to the tennis complex and has raised over $4,000 to date. For more information, contact Kevin Gibbons-O’Neill, assistant director of athletics for fundraising, at 410-455-1532 or at oneillb@umbc.edu. You may also contact Doug Neagle, assistant tennis coach at 410-455-1311 or at dneagle@umbc.edu.

Senior Cornelia Carapcea (Constanta, Romania) and junior Dominic Devaud (Baltimore, Md./Archbishop Curley) were named America East Scholar Athletes for women’s tennis and men’s indoor track and field, respectively, the conference announced Tuesday. The conference named members of teams in the 15 championship sports which America East offered in the winter and spring seasons, that represent the best of the America East Conference both academically and athletically.

UMBC tennis standout Cornelia Carapcea (Constanta, Romania) has been named to the 2008-09 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America University Division Women’s At-Large Second Team. Carapcea becomes the fourth student-athlete and third tennis player in UMBC’s Division I era to earn all academic All-America honors in back-to-back years. She earned Third Team honors in the spring of 2008.

The third annual “Advantage Retriever” fundraiser was held Friday, May 15 at the Retriever Tennis Complex. This event is to help raise funds to make improvements to the tennis complex and has raised over $4,000 to date.