Tianyu Bao was named the Academic/Life Skills Graduate Assistant at Northwestern State University in August 2015.
Bao graduated from Florida Gulf Coast with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication in May 2015. He served as the communication intern in the FGCU Athletic Communication office during his junior and senior years, working directly with all aspects in the office, including writing press releases, serving as the StatCrew operators in the home basketball games, maintaining the fgcuathletics.com website and promoting the teams on social media.
Bao was a four-year member on the FGCU’s men’s tennis team as he played every position in both singles and doubles except No. 6 singles. Bao graduated as the FGCU’s winningest doubles player with 50 doubles wins and the second winningest singles player with 64 wins, while his 114 total victories earned him a second place in the FGCU’s all-time wins list. The only player to receive at least one Atlantic Sun All-Conference honor in each of the four years he competed, Bao helped the program to win its first-ever Atlantic Sun Championship in 2015, earning an automatic bid into the 2015 NCAA Tennis championship.
Over the course of his collegiate careers Bao has helped the Eagles to many significant victories, including wins over Big XII foe Oklahoma State, ACC powerhouse Miami and Big East institution UConn. During Bao’s senior year, the Eagles squad finished the season with a 17-6 record, a perfect 6-0 mark in A-Sun action and was ranked No. 75 in the last edition of the 2015 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Men’s Team Rankings.
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