Kyle Butters
| School: |
Boise State University |
| Year: |
Sophomore |
| Home Town: |
Wanganui |
| Home State: |
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| Home Country: |
New Zealand |
| High School: |
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| Height: |
6-3 |
| Weight: |
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| Birth Date: |
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| Dominant Hand: |
Right |
| Major: |
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| Singles Record: |
0-0 |
| Doubles Record: |
0-0 |
2015-16 | FRESHMAN SEASON
HONORS: ITA Mountain Region Rookie of the Year, Mountain West Freshman of the Year, All-Mountain West Doubles, Mountain West Player of the Week (March 30).
OVERALL HIGHLIGHTS: Finished freshman year on a 15 match win streak in singles to give him a 25-10 overall mark, went 20-7 in duals and 5-3 in singles tournaments ... went 17-10 overall in doubles playing with Toby Mitchell, 12-7 in duals and 5-3 in doubles tournaments.
FALL HIGHLIGHTS: Competed in two tournaments during the fall 2015 semester compiling a 5-3 singles record and 3-2 in doubles ... advanced to the singles consolation semifinals at the Battle in the Bay Classic at San Francisco, Calif., (Sept. 18-20) to finish with a 3-2 singles mark, went 1-1 in doubles with Toby Mitchell ... went 2-1 in singles at the USTA/ITA Mountain Regional at Albuquerque, N.M., (Oct. 20-25) reaching the round of 32, tallied a 1-1 doubles record at regional paired with Toby Mitchell.
SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: Tallied a team-best 20-7 singles record during the spring duals season playing primarily at No. 4 where he went 15-0, 3-1 at No. 2 and 2-6 at No. 3 ... went 7-0 in singles versus Mountain West opponents playing on court four ... finished year on 15-match win streak in singles going undefeated at the No. 4 position ... played doubles with Toby Mitchell going a team-best 12-7 on court one, 3-2 versus MW teams ... defeated one nationally ranked opponent in New Mexico’s Hayden Sabatka and Rodolfo Jauregui (April 3), ranked 77th at the time, by 7-5 score.
JUNIOR TENNIS
A native of Wanganui, New Zealand, where he graduated from Wanganui High School in 2014 ... a standout among the New Zealand junior ranks winning national championships in singles and doubles for every age group (U12, U14, U16 and U18) during his youth career ... obtained the No. 1 ranking in juniors for all age groups in the country ... won his first International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament at the age of 15 ... won four ITF tournament singles titles and reach six finals in doubles ... a three-time New Zealand Maori Tournament champion and a two-year member of the Junior Davis Cup team ... three-time champion of the Aotearoa national championships ... went undefeated in the World Youth Olympic Cup while playing for New Zealand ... played as New Zealand’s number one for the Junior Davis Cup at South Korea in 2013 and number two in the 2012 tournament at Australia ... member of the winning ATL Davis Cup team that competed in Australia ... part of the New Zealand development program that trained for six months in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
ACADEMICS
Majoring in finance.
