New UA men's tennis coach reminds Byrne of baseball coach
The UA bypassed Loyola Marymount head men’s tennis coach Tom Lloyd, a former UA team captain, to hire Utah State’s 29-year-old Clancy Shields last week. “Clancy reminds me a little bit of what (baseball coach) Jay Johnson was able to do at Nevada,” said athletic director Greg Byrne. Shields, who grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado, and played at Boise State, became the Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year in 2016. If he can win in tennis at USU (my alma mater), he should be able to hold his own at Arizona. Playing in the modest Utah State indoor tennis facility, which is shared by the public, is not exactly like taking on UCLA and Stanford in the powerful Pac-12.
