For Seton Hall women’s tennis coach Kevin McGlynn, recruiting international students has been the running theme for the team since the 1990s.
“The process of international recruitment was not something that just happened,” McGlynn said. “It naturally progressed that way. Even back in the ‘90s, the ratio of international to domestic was 50-50 but now it’s 80-20.”
The group for the 2020-21 tennis season is dominated by international students, with just one of the nine players being from the United States. It’s a style of recruitment that’s worked for the Pirates for over three decades, but there have been many challenges.