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Centennial Conference Announces Men's Tennis Silver Anniversary Team

Centennial Conference Announces Men's Tennis Silver Anniversary Team

Centennial Conference Silver Anniversary release

HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Centennial Conference is celebrating 25 years as one of the elite small college athletic conferences in the country with the announcement of its Silver Anniversary teams. With criteria selected by conference officials, the Silver Anniversary teams are designed to highlight the best of the best over the conference's first quarter-century.

For inclusion on a Silver Anniversary team, a student must have a degree from their institution and meet one of the following qualifications:

  • Three-time or four-time first-team All-Centennial performer
  • Two-time Centennial Conference Player of the Year
  • First-team All-America AND two-time first-team All-Centennial performer
  • Two-time All-America (first, second, or third team)

For individual sports such as swimming and track & field, the accomplishments must have occurred in the same event.

On Monday, the Centennial Conference released the list of 35 men's tennis players who were named to the Silver Anniversary team. The Haverford College men's tennis team has established itself as a perennial power in the conference with 12 conference tournament appearances in the 13 seasons a team tournament has been held. The Fords have made it to at least the semifinal round during each of those seasons, playing for the conference title on three separate occasions (2007, 2008, 2013). With that success on the court, the Haverford College men's tennis team has had seven players named to the Centennial Conference's Silver Anniversary team.

The Conference was founded in 1981 as the Centennial Football Conference and began competition as an all-sports conference in the fall of 1993. The Conference crowns champions in 24 sports.

Haverford College Men's Tennis Silver Anniversary Honorees (by graduation year)

Bruce Nisbet '95

  • 1995 All-American in singles
  • 1995 All-American in doubles with fellow honoree Justin Annes '96
  • 1995 Centennial Conference singles champion
  • Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in singles (1994, 1995)
  • Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in doubles (1994, 1995)

Justin Annes '96

  • 1995 All-American in doubles with fellow honoree Bruce Nisbet '95
  • 1995 Centennial Conference doubles champion
  • Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in singles (1994, 1995)
  • Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in doubles (1994, 1995)

Tom Kinrade '09

  • 2008 All-American in doubles with fellow honoree Alex Buxbaum '09
  • 2008 Centennial Conference Player of the Year
  • Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in singles (2007, 2008, 2009)
  • Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in doubles (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)

Alex Buxbaum '09

  • 2008 All-American in doubles with fellow honoree Tom Kinrade '09
  • Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in doubles (2006, 2007, 2009)
  • Two-time first-team All-Centennial conference in singles (2007, 2009)

Kevin Caulfield '13

  • 2013 All-American in singles
  • Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in singles (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
  • Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in doubles (2011, 2012, 2013)

Danny Himelstein '13

  • Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in doubles (2011, 2012, 2013)

Luis Acaba '16

  • Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in singles (2014, 2015, 2015)
  • Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference in doubles (2015, 2016)