Staten Island, NY- First-year Wagner head men's tennis coach Jason Sinkoff will guide the young Seahawks into the spring season this weekend, as the Green & White travel to West Point, NY to tangle with the Army Black Knights at 6:00 p.m.
 
Coach Sinkoff put together a very competitive spring schedule, coming off an impressive 5-1 fall campaign, which included his first Northeast Conference (NEC) win back on September 18 against St. Francis Brooklyn.
 
"The team and I met before this semester started and talked about what we can accomplish this season and how we can get there," Sinkoff said. "We are playing a lot of matches and conditioning is going to be a big factor. The guys have worked extremely hard on and off the court and are excited for match play to start."
 
Looking Back At The Seahawks Fall Season:

• The Wagner men's tennis team concluded its fall season with its fourth shutout victory of the year, blanking The College of Holy Cross Crusaders, 7-0 
• The Seahawks raised their overall record to 5-1 which includes a 1-0 mark in Northeast Conference (NEC).
• Sophomore Charlton Boyd (Shreveport, LA/Loyola College Prep) earned career singles victory No. 25 as he now holds a 25-10 overall record to go along with a 19-7 mark in dual matches while improving his 2015-16 overall record to 7-1 (6-0 in dual matches).
• Freshman Ilya Kneppelhout (Woubrugge, Netherlands/Scala College Secondary School) has a team-leading eight singles victories in the 2015-16 season.
• As part of the inaugural Northeast Conference (NEC) Canned Food Drive Competition, the Wagner men's tennis team collected the most canned and non-perishable items among the Seahawks' 20 sponsored athletic teams.

 
Previewing The Seahawk Spring Season:
After the Seahawks leave West Point, they will travel to the "City of Brotherly Love" of Philadelphia, PA to meet American Athletic Conference member Temple on February 7 at 6:30 p.m.
 
Wagner will continue to be "road warriors" as the next nine matches are away from Staten Island. On February 28, the Seahawks will take on Marist College at 4:30 p.m. and Fordham at 7:00 p.m. Both matches will occur in Hamilton, NY at Life Time Athletics.
 
March commences with Wagner returning to Philadelphia, this time taking on Drexel University on March 5. The Seahawks then return a little closer to home, as they head to Hackensack, NJ for their second NEC contest of the season, against the Fairleigh Dickinson University Knights. To end the month of March, the Green & White travels to Connecticut to take on former-NEC member, Quinnipiac University on March 23 and head from Hamden to Storrs as the Seahawks then face UConn on March 24.
 
The final month of the regular season opens with two more road voyages, as the team takes on Villanova on April 1 before concluding the lengthy road trip at the University of Hartford on April 2.
 
A pair of conference tilts has the Seahawks back at the Wagner Tennis Courts as they welcome the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers on April 9 and the Sacred Heart University Pioneers on April 10. Wagner remains in the New York, heading to Long Island on April 12, as the Green & White face the Stony Brook Seawolves.
 
The NEC regular season concludes for Wagner on Grymes Hill, as Saint Francis U and Bryant pay a visit on April 15 and 17, respectively. The NEC Tournament will once again be held at the Mercer County Tennis Center in West Windsor, NJ, starting on Sunday, April 22 and go on Tuesday, April 24.

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