BOULDER – The Colorado Buffaloes Tennis team travels to Flagstaff, Arizona to continue their four-match road trip against No. 71 ranked Northern Arizona on Monday at 11:00 a.m. MST.
Originally the Buffs did not have Northern Arizona on the schedule but were able to add the match to give the team another chance to compete and improve. Head Coach Anthony Pham was looking to add another opportunity for the team get better with only eight matches left until the Pac-12 tournament in a month.
“At this point in the season we have eight matches left,” Pham said on adding Northern Arizona. “Every match is important to us and it is an opportunity. Every match is an opportunity for us to get better. We have had a good week of practice, we feel good about our preparation. Northern Arizona is just another opportunity for us to play another good team and get better.”
It has been quite some time since the Buffs have taken the court for a match going 10 days between matches. The down time gave was the first time all season that Colorado had a full week of training. This gave the entire team an opportunity to refine their games coming down the home stretch of the season.
“This is the first time this year that we’ve had literally a whole week of training to get the team ready,” Pham said on the time off. “We spent a lot of time revisiting some of the things that we felt we haven’t done a good job of recently and putting some emphasis on those things. We slowed some things down and talking about some things to make sure we are on the same page about how we should be approaching these things. I think we cleaned some of those things up so we can make sure we are controlling the controllables and preparing ourselves as best we can so they can be in the best position to be successful.”
The Buffs travel to Flagstaff to take on the 71st ranked team in the country. The Lumberjacks come in with a record of 8-5 and winning three of their last four matches including a 7-0 victory on the road over Eastern Washington.
The Buffs come in for the second of a four-match road trip following a 4-0 loss in Eugene against Oregon. Colorado will look to bounce back before heading up to Los Angeles to close it out.
“We are looking forward to playing Northern Arizona,” Pham said. “They are a good team, obviously one of the better teams in the region. It’s a…
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