Corp. All Rights Reserved. I mean, especially for a foreign student. When I say we , I mean the eight foreigners who all are members of the Ole Miss Men s Tennis Team. It is not something new that the tennis program keeps recruiting international players. Head Coach Billy Chadwick said that he started to recruit international players about ten years ago.
Tennis is a true international sport.
You have a pool of talent around the world, but there is only one place in the world that combines athletics and academics and that is the United States, he said. That makes it very attractive for them to come here. Most of the players had never heard of Oxford before they came here, but once the international recruiting wheel started rolling ten years ago, the majority of the team has been foreigners. Many people don t realize how different Oxford, and the south for that part, is for the international students. Oxford is not exactly the America we saw on television before we came.