Men’s tennis coach Danny Bryan brought in a new emphasis on utilizing the weight room and each player was expected to use the equipment to strengthen their game.
Sophomore Haru Inoue was new to the weight room, not even starting to lift the 45-lbs bar.
The coaches wanted Inoue to increase his offensive game: to become more than a grinder. That began in the weight room.
“When we first got here it was very obvious to us how good Haru was and how much better he could get,” assistant coach Justin DeSanto said.
Inoue started lifting at 20 lbs and after almost a year of training, Inoue has doubled his lifting weight at around 50 lbs.