Josh Watkins

Class:
Redshirt Senior
Hometown:
Whitefish, Mont.

2023-24 (R-Sr.)
• Spring Singles: 3-3
• Spring Doubles: 2-1

2022-23 (Redshirt)
• Spring Singles: 2-1
• Spring Doubles: 3-0

2021-22 (Junior)
• Fall singles: 1-8
• Fall doubles: 2-5

2020-21 (Sophomore)
• Overall singles: 3-0
• Overall doubles: 1-0
• Singles streak: W 3
• Singles last 10: 3-0

2019-20 (Freshman)
• Fall singles: 2-4
• Fall doubles: 4-4
• Spring singles: 1-0 (0-0 Big Sky)
• Spring doubles: 1-0 (0-0 Big Sky)
• Overall singles: 3-4
• Overall doubles: 5-4
• Singles streak: W 1
• Singles last 10: 3-4

Significant Doubles Match Results vs. Division I Opponents:
Fall 2019:
Win vs. Mack Galvin / Morgan lhrig (Air Force) 6-3
Win vs. Drew Brown / Christian Damgaard Quist (Montana State) 8-5
Fall 2021:
Win vs. Roko Savin / Gabriel Chavez (Utah State) 6-2
Win vs. Wikus Robertse / Zachary Matuszak (Idaho State) 7-6 (4)
Fall 2023:
Win vs. Jordan Coutinho / Matteo Savio (Weber State) 7-6 (5)
Win vs. Jacob Huppin / Adrian Daniel (Montana State) 6-4
Win vs. Taiyo Kurata / Yu-Shun Lai (Idaho) 8-7 (6)

Significant Singles Match Results vs. Division I Opponents:
Fall 2019:
Win vs. Jim Bauer (Seattle) 6-1, 6-1
Fall 2021:
Win vs. Bruno Ortega (Eastern Washington) 7-6 (5), 4-6, 10-8

Doubles Record vs. Division I Opponents
Fall 2019: 2-3
Fall 2020: no Fall season due to COVID
Fall 2021: 2-5
Fall 2022: 0-4
Fall 2023: 3-4
Spring 2024: 0-1

Singles Record vs. Division I Opponents
Fall 2019: 1-3
Fall 2020: no Fall season due to COVID
Fall 2021: 1-8
Fall 2022: 0-4
Fall 2023: 0-4
Spring 2024: 0-2

Total Singles Record vs. Division I Opponents: 2-22 (9% Win Percentage)
Total Doubles Record vs. Division I Opponents: 7-17 (30% Win Percentage)
Total Combined Record (Singles / Doubles) vs. Division I Opponents: 9-40 (18% Win Percentage)

HIGH SCHOOL: A three-year letterman in tennis at Newport Harbor HS in Newport, Calif.... Named varsity team captain his senior year... Awarded varsity team MVP his junior year... #1 Singles Win / Loss Record (52-8)... Posted a high USTA Intermountain Section Ranking of No. 23 and a high national ranking of No. 498 in July, 2017... Represented Montana in the Boys 16 Team Zonal Competition in SLC, UT in July 2016... Won various USTA level five Singles and Doubles Tournaments (2014-2018)... Made First Team All-League his junior year... Daily Pilot Dream Team (Junior year)... Was League Doubles Champion his junior year... Also made it to CIF-SS Individual Doubles Tournament Round of Sixteen as a junior... Was a Ojai Doubles Tournament Qualifier during his junior year... Earned Second Team All-League his freshman year.

PERSONAL: Earned the Presidential Leadership Scholarship at UM… Father played Division-I college tennis at Brigham Young University (1990-1994)... One of his father’s teammates was a former Griz tennis player, Colin McMullin… Studied piano performance for 10 years and achieved Level 6 Certificate of Merit for Piano Performance and Music Theory… Volunteered to help rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina… IB Diploma Student (International Baccalaureate)… World War II history enthusiast… Swam the Monster Mile as a Newport Beach Junior Lifeguard multiple years… Favorite food is sushi… Favorite hobby is wake-boarding/surfing… Lists his parents as the most influential people in his life… Lists the most character-building experience of his life as five days of trail maintenance with the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation... Parents are Mark and Jennifer Watkins of Whitefish.