Chase Hodges, SVP & Sandy Franz, Director of College at UTR Sports

[upbeat music] Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode number sixty-seven of the UTR Pro Tennis Tour Podcast.

My name is James McKay.

I'm the director of player and collegiate development at UTR Sports.

As you know, the UTR Pro Tennis Tour is the go-to tour for rising tennis professionals across the world.

Guaranteed matches, guaranteed prize money.

Next on the show, this is a big one.

Why? Because it is the-- because it is the first time that we are doing a three-person podcast, and who better to do it with than colleagues of mine at UTR Sports, Chase Hodges and Sandy Franz.

Welcome on.

Thanks, James.

Um, just wanna say sixty-seven of these is a big number, so congratulations on that, and, uh, super excited to be here.

Yeah, same from my end.

Congratulations on sixty-seven, and, uh, I'm super excited to be here and talk about college, college tennis, so.

Yeah, this is gonna be a good one.

Um, if you don't know myself, Sandy, or Chase, we are incredibly passionate about the sport.

We are incredibly passionate about college tennis.

We're-- and also about UTR.

Um, but we're also, we're also aggressive people.

We like to get things done.

Uh, I'd like to give a shout-out to the Missouri Tigers.

I'm repping them today.

PTT will be there in October for the first time ever on the women's side, so big shout-out to Robin Goodman and the Missouri Tigers.

Um, I think that's enough talking, and I think we should get straight in.

Chase Hodges and Sandy Franz, could you both just introduce yourselves, please?

Go ahead, Sandy.

Yes, my name is Sandy Franz.

I'm director of college here at UTR Sports.

Um, I'm super excited to be part of this podcast.

As I mentioned, I worked thirteen years in recruiting before I joined UTR a year ago and helped over seven hundred, um, tennis players from all around the world to play college tennis, and now I'm in charge of the whole college department, working with Chase and you together.

So yeah, thanks again for having me, and I pass it over to Chase.

Yeah.

Uh, Chase Hodges, senior vice president here at UTR Sports.

Uh, joined the team here at UTR in twenty twenty-two.

Uh, prior to that, I was in college coaching for twenty-five years at a plethora of different schools.

Uh, one of those schools was Drake University, where I, uh, had the luxury of recruiting, uh, Mr. James here.

[laughs]

So, uh, that's-- that was a long, long time ago.

Um, and, uh, super excited to be here.

Thank you, gents.