Rather a surprise here, with today's announcement that former University of Colorado tennis coach Sam Winterbotham had been named to replace Chris Mahony at the University of Tennessee. Mahony had announced last month that he was returning to his native country, Australia, taking the position of National High Performance Academy Head Coach for Tennis Australia. Winterbotham had taken an assistant's position at Baylor after Colorado cut its men's tennis program at the end of the 2005-06 season.
All the talk I heard presumed that assistant Chris Woodruff would move up, and the Knoxville News published this article two weeks ago calling him the "leading candidate.
The university's announcement doesn't mention Woodruff.
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