| Daniel Whitehead |
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Senior
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| Hometown:
Sugar Land, Texas
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| High School:
home schooled
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| Height:
5-9
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| Experience:
3L
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| Records |
| YEAR |
SINGLES |
DOUBLES |
DUAL-SINGLES |
| 2010 |
11-8 |
23-7 |
2-2 |
| 2011 |
28-9 |
24-6 |
17-5 |
| 2012 |
24-14 |
23-11 |
11-11 |
| 2013 |
0-0 |
0-0 |
0-0 |
| Career |
63-31 |
70-24 |
30-18 |
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• finished with a 24-14 overall singles record, including a 11-11 mark in dual matches
• ended the season with a No. 87 ITA national singles ranking and a No. 87 ITA national doubles ranking (with Ben Chen)
• defeated Texas A&M's Junior Ore at second singles (6-4, 6-4) in UT's 4-2 loss to the Aggies at the Big 12 Championship
• outlasted Florida State's Blake Davis at second singles (4-6, 6-1, 6-4) to help Texas to a 4-2 neutral-site win over the Seminoles
• toppled TCU's J.T. Sundling at second singles (6-3, 6-1) in UT's 7-0 home win over the Horned Frogs
• helped Texas to a 4-2 win over Auburn at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship with a win over the Tigers' Alexander Stamchev at second singles (6-1, 4-6, 6-3)
• registered a dominant 6-1, 6-2 win over North Carolina's Brennan Boyajian in Texas' 5-2 win on the Tar Heels' home indoor courts
• clinched UT's 4-0 win over Texas Tech in the second round of the ITA Kick-Off Weekend with a 6-1, 6-4 win over the Red Raiders' 23rd-ranked Gonzalo Escobar
• posted a 6-2, 6-1 win over John Collins in UT's 4-0 win over Maryland in the opening round of the ITA Kick-Off Weekend
• defeated Rice's Peter Frank 6-4, 6-3 in Texas' 5-2 road win over the Owls
• registered a 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over SMU's Mischa Nowicki in Texas' 5-2 road win over the Mustangs
• defeated Denver's Fabio Biasion (6-1, 6-2) at the Key Biscayne Quad
• won his singles flight at the Southwest Shootout, where he defeated teammate Soren Hess-Olesen in the finals (4-1, ret.); defeated UT Arlington's Yauheni Yakaulen (6-2, 6-1) and TCU's Nick Chappell (6-3, 6-4) to reach the finals
• defeated Rice's Michael Nusslein (7-6, 6-1) in the round of 64 and Texas A&M's John Lewis (brother of UT's Jacoby Lewis) in the round of 32 (6-1, 6-3) at the ITA Texas Regional Championships
• defeated Tulsa's 88th-ranked Grant Ive (6-1, 6-4) and East Tennessee State's Sander Gille in the opening rounds of the qualifying draw at the ITA All-American Championships
• won the 32-player singles draw at the season-opening Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational, where he defeated teammate Soren Hess-Olesen in the finals (3-2, retired); defeated Maryland's Andy Magee (7-6, 6-3), TCU's Will Stein (6-4, 6-4), Tulsa's Grant Ive (6-1, 6-4) and Texas Tech's Raphael Pfister (6-2, 6-1) to reach the finals
AS A SOPHOMORE (2010-11)
• led the team in singles wins and posted a 28-9 overall singles record, including a 17-5 record in dual matches
• ended the season with a No. 119 ITA national singles ranking
• posted a 24-6 overall doubles record
• closed the season by winning his last eight singles matches
• notched a three-set win over Tulsa's Tristan Jackson at sixth singles (6-2, 4-6, 6-1) in the Horns' 4-2 loss to the Golden Hurricane in the second round of the NCAA Championship
• defeated Nebraska's Sebastian Florczyk at fifth singles (7-5, 6-0) in UT's 4-1 win over the Cornhuskers in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Championship
• edged Texas A&M's Alberto Bautista at sixth singles (6-3, 5-7, 1-0 [8]) in UT's road loss to the Aggies
• knocked off Nebraska's Tom Blackwell at sixth singles (6-4, 5-7, 6-3) in Texas' 5-2 home win over the Cornhuskers
• posted a 6-4, 6-4 win over Texas Tech's Gabriel Wanderley at fifth singles to help Texas to a 5-2 home win over the Red Raiders
• notched a 6-4, 6-3 win over Baylor's Dennis Lengsfeld at sixth singles in UT's 4-3 loss to the Bears
• scored his first conference win of the season when he defeated Oklahoma State's Ilija Martinoski at fifth singles (7-5, 2-1, ret.) in UT's 6-1 win over the Cowboys
• defeated USC's Ray Sarmiento at fourth singles (7-5, 2-0, ret.) in UT's 5-2 road loss to the Trojans
• knocked off Illinois' Roy Kalmanovich at fourth singles (6-4, 7-6 [6]) to help Texas to a 4-3 win over the Fighting Illini at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship
• held on for a 6-0, 1-6, 6-3 win over Florida State's Anderson Reed at sixth singles in the Horns' 4-3 road win over the Seminoles
• edged Texas A&M's Alberto Bautista at sixth singles (6-7 [3], 6-4, 6-4) to help Texas to a 4-3 win over the Aggies at the Texas Cup in Houston
• opened dual-match play with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Hawaii's Danilo Casanova at fifth singles
• defeated Denver's Jonathan Kidane (5-7, 6-2, 6-3) and Michigan's Alex Buzzi (6-4, 6-3) at the Key Biscayne Invitational
• registered victories over Texas A&M's Alexey Grigorov and Oklahoma's Tsvetan Mihov at the Texas Invitational
• won the Rice Fall Invitational with victories over LSU's Mark Bowtell (6-2, 6-2), UT Arlington's Mindaugas Celedinas (6-3, 6-4) and LSU's Stefan Szacinski (6-1, 6-1)
• reached the semifinals of the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational by defeating San Diego's Thibaut Visy (4-6, 6-4, 1-0 [5]), Rice's Michael Nusslein (retired) and Maryland's Tommy Laine (6-1, 6-3)
AS A FRESHMAN (2009-10)
• registered an 11-8 overall singles record, including a 2-2 mark in dual matches
• tallied a 23-7 overall doubles record, including a 12-4 mark in dual matches
• defeated Ryan Wiggins of St. Edward's (6-0, 6-4) in UT's 7-0 win over the Hilltoppers
• edged Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Alex Pavlov (2-6, 6-4, 1-0 [12-10]) in Texas' 7-0 win over the Islanders
• defeated Texas-Arlington's Brieuc Hamon (6-1, 6-4) and teammate Josh Zavala (5-7, 6-1, 6-1) at the Texas Invitational
• blanked Prairie View A&M's Ronald Chidzikwe (6-0, 6-0) at the ITA Texas Regional Championship
• defeated SMU's Artem Baradach (2-6, 6-3, 7-6), Texas Tech's Raphael Pfister (6-2, 6-2) and Boise State's Cristian Hodel (6-4, 6-3) at the season-opening Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational
BEFORE TEXAS
• ranked as high as No. 27 nationally in the USTA Boys' 16 division
• ranked No. 1 in the state of Texas in the boys' 14, 16 and 18 age divisions
• reached the fourth round in the boys' 16 division at the USTA Summer National Championships in Kalamazoo, Mich.
• coached by Steve Bryan, a former NCAA singles champion at Texas
PERSONAL
Son of Doug and Jan Whitehead ... has one brother, Michael (23) ... born Nov. 16, 1990 in Houston, Texas ... four-time member of the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011) ... major is physical culture and sport.
