{"id":75305,"date":"2019-01-29T15:57:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=75305"},"modified":"2019-01-29T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T21:58:13","slug":"for-strongly-international-uic-womens-tennis-head-coach-serves-as-a-second-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/for-strongly-international-uic-womens-tennis-head-coach-serves-as-a-second-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"For strongly international UIC Women&#8217;s Tennis, head coach serves as a second mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fernando Shan<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports Video<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Shannon Tully, head coach of\u00a0\u00a0University of Illinois at Chicago women&#8217;s tennis team, has guided student-athletes for nearly 20 years. Players say Tully serves as the American mother for this team, where seven of the eight players are international students who traveled thousands of miles to attend UIC.<\/p>\n<p>Before coaching, Tully played for the University of Wisconsin Badgers from 1991-1995, serving as team captain for the 1994-1995 season and graduating in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look of Tully&#8217;s coaching day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"For International Students on UIC Women&#039;s Tennis, Head Coach Serves as a Second Mother\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/313261596?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: UIC Women&#8217;s Tennis team huddles with Coach Shannon Tully (wearing the red jacket) before a game.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fernando Shan Medill Reports Video Shannon Tully, head coach of\u00a0\u00a0University of Illinois at Chicago women&#8217;s tennis team, has guided student-athletes for nearly 20 years. Players say Tully serves as the American mother for this team, where seven of the eight players are international students who traveled thousands of miles to attend UIC. Before coaching, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":75306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-winter-2019"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>For strongly international UIC Women&#039;s Tennis, head coach serves as a second mother - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/for-strongly-international-uic-womens-tennis-head-coach-serves-as-a-second-mother\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"For strongly international UIC Women&#039;s Tennis, head coach serves as a second mother - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Fernando Shan Medill Reports Video Shannon Tully, head coach of\u00a0\u00a0University of Illinois at Chicago women&#8217;s tennis team, has guided student-athletes for nearly 20 years. 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