Endrikat named UCI assistant

Former UC Irvine men’s tennis player Jonathan Endrikat has been hired

as an assistant coach for the UCI men’s tennis team, announced head

coach Steve Clark.

“It is great to have Jon aboard as assistant coach. He will be

able to provide a huge amount of time and energy in recruiting,

practice, travel, and all the areas of coaching,” Clark said. “He is

at a point in life that he has decided to pursue coaching as a career

and obviously as a nationally recognized player for UCI and Big West

Scholar Athlete of the Year, he knows what is needed on and off the

court.”

Endrikat was named UC Irvine’s male Big West Scholar-Athlete of

the Year as a senior and earned All-Big West first team honors six

times. He was ranked as high as sixth in the country in doubles with

Brian Morton. Endrikat and Morton qualified for the NCAA

championships in 2004 after they won the ITA West Region Championship

in fall of 2003 and reached the semifinals of the Icy Hot/ITA All

American championships in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Endrikat graduated from UC Irvine in June with a degree in

criminology, law and society.

Contest beckons youth

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