Western Michigan University Athletics

2010-11

• First Team All-MAC for third consecutive season
• Named to All-MAC Tournament Team
• Finished the season with 216 career overall wins, surpassing WMU Hall of Famer R.J. Dunkle's career total of 214 to become the program's all-time leader
• Finished first on WMU career singles wins list with 115 career singles wins; ranks tied for third on WMU career doubles wins list with 101 career doubles wins
• Team captain
• Won the doubles championship with Kazuya Komada at the Wildcat Invitational (10/15-17) beating teams from Wisconsin and DePaul
• Went 26-11 in singles play, including 5-0 in the MAC and 12-4 at the No. 1 singles position
• Went 18-15 in doubles play, 3-2 in MAC play
• Named MAC Player of the Week (1/26) after going 4-0 against Cleveland State and Purdue, and again (4/13) by going 3-1 against Michigan State and Chicago State
• Earned fourth letter

• First Team All-MAC, Academic All-MAC, ITA Scholar-Athlete
• Made All-MAC Tournament Team after becoming the first MAC player to defeat MAC Player of the Year Eduardo Pavia of Ball State 6-3, 7-5 in the semifinals
• Team captain
• Tied for team lead (Kazuya Komada) with 19 dual singles wins at No. 1 (11-7) and No. 2 (8-3)
• Second on the team with 17 dual doubles wins at No. 1 (10-8), No. 2 (4-3) and No. 3 (3-1)
• Second on the team with 27 overall singles wins and third on the team with 27 doubles wins
• Teamed with younger brother, Thomas, to lead the team with 6-5 record at No. 1 doubles and that tandem finished second on the team with 16 total doubles wins
• Named MAC Player of the Week (2/3) after going 5-0 in three matches on Jan. 30
• Defeated No. 53 Christopher Aumuller of Nebraska in singles (2/20) 6-2, 1-0, retired
• Reached doubles final at IU Invitational in the fall with Kazuya Komada and semifinals in singles
• Earned third letter

2008-09

• First Team All-MAC, Academic All-MAC
• MAC Tournament MVP after winning the deciding point at No. 2 singles in the championship match
• WMU Singles Player of the Year and team captain
• Went 5-0 in MAC singles and 2-0 in the MAC Tournament, while going 4-1 in MAC doubles and 1-0 in the MAC Tournament
• Led the team with 31 singles wins and 58 overall wins
• Won back-to-back MAC Player of the Week awards (1/27, 2/4) after winning three matches against No. 16 Michigan and Xavier for the first one and went 4-0 on the road against Butler and Purdue for the second
• Named MAC Male Scholar-Athlete of the Week (2/6) after his performance against Butler and Purdue
• Ranked nationally No. 33 in doubles with Zeyad Montasser in Jan. 6 rankings
• Defeated No. 34 Drew Daniel/George Navas of Michigan and No. 56 Skip Span/Daniel Tobar of Illinois State with Zeyad Montasser
• Defeated No. 38 Ben Hartman/Austin Doerner of DePaul and No. 71 Johnny Parkes/Miles Bugby of New Mexico with Kazuya Komada
• Reached the finals of the Vredevelt Invitational and the semifinals of the Hoosier Invitational in the fall    
• Earned second letter

2007-08

• WMU Rookie of the Year
• Named to the All-MAC Tournament Team
• Led the team with 60 overall wins, second in a single season in WMU history
• Posted a perfect 5-0 mark in MAC singles, 5-0 in MAC doubles and 3-0 in MAC Tournament
• Only player on the team to post 20 dual match wins in singles (20-7) and doubles (22-5)
• One of only two players (Alejandro Staub) to win 20 dual singles matches
• MAC Player of the Week (1/23) after going 5-1 in matches against No. 41 Minnesota, No. 52 Drake and Purdue
• Teamed with freshman Kazuya Komada to defeat Chris Madden and George Navas of Michigan, 9-8 (3), at three doubles in the NCAA Tournament to clinch the first NCAA Tournament point in WMU history
• Finished the year on a 10-match winning streak with Komada
• Won three straight matches to advance to the championship match of his flight at the UVa Invitational in his first collegiate tennis matches
• Earned first letter

High School

• 2007 Michigan Mr. Tennis
• Won the Division IV No. 1 singles state title in 2006 and 2007 and Division IV No. 1 doubles state title in 2004
• Helped Titans finish second in Division IV in 2004 and eighth in 2006
• Went 32-0 as a senior, the fourth-most wins in Michigan history
• Finished career on a 54-match winning streak, third in Michigan history
• Four-time all-state selection
• Two-time Junior Davis Cup member
• Won the 2007 Fred Sidmore Memorial, the oldest continuous tennis tournament in Jackson, Mich. ... his dad, Craig, won in 1993 and he beat his younger brother, Thomas, in the semifinals
• Played football for 2005 Lumen Christi state champions and basketball in 2006-07 when team went 18-4

Personal

• Major is recreation
• Son of Craig and Peggy Calderone
• Dad, Craig, is a tennis instructor and owns the Michigan Whitetail Hall of Fame Museum
• Mom, Peggy, is the women’s tennis coach at Spring Arbor University
• Has an older sister, Annie, and younger brother, Thomas, who is a freshman for the Broncos’ tennis team
• Member of National Honor Society graduated with a 3.7 GPA
• Born Aug. 3, 1988

Calderone's Career Statistics (as of 3/9/11)