WICHITA, Kan - - Wichita State travels to San Antonio, Texas, to take on Texas A&M – Corpus Christi and UTSA, Wednesday, March 21 and Thursday, March 22, in the first of five-straight road matches.  
 
SHOCKER SUMMARY
Wichita state is 7-8 to start the 2018 season under second-year head coach Danny Bryan. After starting the season 1-5, the Shockers have reeled off six of their last nine. The Shockers have wins against Buffalo (5-2), which came in their season opener on the road and over UMKC (7-0), Tulsa (4-3), San Francisco (4-0), No. 46 New Mexico (4-1), Grand Canyon (4-2) and Nebraska (4-1). Cornell (6-1), Utah (5-2), Auburn (4-3), Arkansas (4-3) Middle Tennessee State (5-2), No. 15 Oklahoma (4-1), New Mexico (4-3) and No. 22 Dartmouth (4-3) are among the Shocker losses.
 
LEADING THE WAY
Freshman Andrea Caligiana has paced the Shockers this season, compiling a 7-4 record all in the sixth flight. Caligiana and Herzan are 7-5 in doubles matches, (3-0) in third flight. Senior Miroslav Herzan and sophomore Murkel Dellien are both 9-5 in singles action. Herzan has competed in flights three, four, five and six and is 6-4 in the fourth flight, while Dellien is 7-5 in flight three. Eddie Stoica is 7-7, Haru Inoue 5-7, and Marius Frosa is 5-8 for the Shockers. Dellien and Frosa, who were previously ranked No. 76, are 6-4 in doubles.
 
SCOUTING TEXAS A&M- CORPUS CHRISTI
The Islanders come into the match with a 14-3 record. They have wins over Prairie View (four times), Trinity (twice), UTSA, UTRGV (twice), ECU, Tennessee Tech, Louisiana, Troy, and New Mexico State. Their three losses are to UTSA,  South Alabama, and Texas.
 
HISTORY WITH THE ISLANDERS
The match between the Islanders and the Shockers will be the fifth in school history. The series is tied at two, where both teams are 1-1 away and at neutral locations.
 
LAST MEETING WITH TEXAS A&M – Corpus Christi
Wichita State won the last meeting, 4-1, when the two met on Feb. 23, 2017 in Austin, Texas.
 
SCOUTING UTSA
The Roadrunners come into the match with an 8-8 record, with wins over Belmont, UTRGV, Prairie View (twice), Incarnate Word, Louisiana-Lafayette, New Mexico State and Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Kai Breitbach leads UTSA with a 9-5 record, primarily in the first flight. They have won six of their last nine matches coming into Thursday's match with the Shockers.
 
HISTORY WITH THE ROADRUNNERS
Thursday's match marks the fifth time the Shockers and Roadrunners have met. Wichita State holds the advantage, 4-0. The Shockers are 3-0 at home, and 1-0 on the road against UTSA.
 
LAST MEETING WITH UTSA
The Shockers defeated UTSA 4-0 on April 16, 2017 at Genesis Health Club in Wichita.
 
BACK-TO-BACK
The Shockers won three matches on Mar. 3-4 to repeat as Mountain Pacific Tournament Champions in Albuquerque, N.M. Wichita State dropped San Francisco (4-0), No. 46 New Mexico (4-1) and Grand Canyon (4-2). Against San Francisco, the Shockers pulled off victories flights three through six to clinch the match, while the first two flights went unfinished. Haru Inoue led the charge against New Mexico, knocking off his first ranked opponent of the season, along with wins by Dellien, Herzan, and Stoica. In the championship, Grand Canyon tested the Shockers before WSU pulled out the victory and the second-straight tournament championship.
 
THAT'S HISTORY
At the Mountain Pacific Tournament on Mar. 3-4, the Shockers met up with Grand Canyon University and San Francisco for the first time in school history. Wichita State faced New Mexico for the 11th time, and the first since 2009 when the Lobos defeated Wichita State 6-1 in Albuquerque. The win marks the first over New Mexico since April 2, 1989, with WSU winning 6-3 in Wichita.
 
The Shockers and Golden Hurricane met on the court for the 37th time in school history on Feb. 19 where WSU knocked off Tulsa (4-3) for the first time since Nov. 4, 1994, and the first in the last 14 tries.  Besides former Missouri Valley opponents Drake (16-27), Illinois State (30-10), Southern Illinois (36-9), the Tulsa-WSU Series is the largest with 37 combined matches. The Shockers hold a 21-16 lead over the Golden Hurricane.
 
Wichita State fell to No. 22 Dartmouth 4-3 on Mar. 18 at the Sheldon Coleman Tennis Complex in Wichita. The match marks just the third time the two school have faced each other, and the first time since March 24, 1990. Dartmouth has the advantage, 2-1, with a 5-3 win in 1990, and 4-3 on March 18 of this season. The lone win for WSU came on March 27, 1988 when the Shockers took down the Big Green 5-2 in Irvine, Calif.
 
CAPTAINS
Head coach Danny Bryan announced the captains for the 2018 season. The captains include Herzan and juniors Haru Inoue and Eddie Stoica.
 
NEW FACE ON THE COURT
Freshman Andrea Trapani joined the Shockers in January, and looks to record his first victory in a Shocker uniform after a 0-5 start to the spring season. Trapani hails from Palermo, Italy and had a 13.22 Universal Tennis Rating coming to Wichita State. He ranked as high as #232 in ITF Junior World Rankings, with over 30 combined singles and doubles wins.
 
FALL BALL
Frosa, from Romania, led the Shockers in the fall season. Frosa went 8-4 in the fall in singles action, including a run to the main draw of the ITA All-Americans, knocking off No. 83 Felix Corwin of Minnesota along the way. The junior was one win away from making the final four of the ITA Central Regional. Inoue, who ranked No. 58 in Fall Rankings, went 10-4 in singles competing in three Futures events. He advanced to the main draw in two of the three events. In doubles, junior Andrea Caligiana and Herzan went 5-2, including a semifinal berth at the ITA Central Regional. Stoica and Frosa went 3-1, including an upset over No. 25 Hammond/Cash of Oklahoma State.
 
UP NEXT:
Wichita State takes on Rice, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, and VCU on Saturday, Mar. 24 and Sunday, Mar. 25 at the Rice Tournament in Houston.