On Court: 5-star recruit on TennisRecruitng.net, reaching as high as No.49 in the nation in his class...ranked No. 2 in Pacific Northwest Boys18's...favorite junior tournaments were team events, including Zonals and National Boys Team...played three years of high school tennis, winning three individual state titles and leading U Prep to one team title...2017-2018 made impressive debut at ITA West Regionals by reaching the semifinals of the singles and doubles (with partner Casey Morris)...entered West Regional singles as the No. 1 seed based on his 12.91 UTR...won four matches before falling to Pomona-Pitzer's Jed Kronenberg in the semis...won three matches in doubles as No. 6 seed, losing to teammates and eventual champs Berber-Parodi...completed fall campaign by earning rankings of No.5 in the West and No. 28 nationally in singles, and No. 8 in the West in doubles...returned for dual matches in the spring and debuted at No. 2 singles and No. 2 doubles with Oscar Burney...won his first eight matches without losing a set before falling to Luke Tercek of Bowdoin in the final of the Stag-Hen...won 10 of his next 13 singles duals, including wins over Amherst, Tufts, Middlebury, Gustavus and Pomona-Pitzer...had some of his best results at NCAA team and individuals, defeating Chicago's Nick Chua in straight sets in the team competition, and advancing all the way to the singles final of individuals as an unseeded player...by advancing to the NCAA singles final, became the fifth Stag to do so in as many years...finished 2018 as No. 2 ranked player in the West and No. 3 Nationally...with Burney in doubles went 22-6 in dual matches with winning streaks of 11 and 8 at different points of the season...was the only Stag to win every singles and doubles match (6-0) at ITA National Indoor tourney in St. Peter, MN and his six dual match clinches during the spring tied for team best...CMS Athlete of the Week for February 26...ended his 2018 freshman campaign with overall records of 26-6 in singles and 25-7 in doubles...honored as ITA All-American in singles, was a1st Team All-SCIAC selection as well as SCIAC All-Academic honoree...2018-2019 had strong showings in both the ITA Collegiate Grass Court Invitational and ITA West Regionals, reaching the final of singles in Flight A of both tournaments...defeated Trinity's Wilson Hamilton and Bowdoin's Jerry Jiang to advance to the Collegiate Grass Court final in Newport, R.I., where he lost a hard fought 3-6, 6-1, (10-5) re-match of the 2018 NCAA singles final to Bowdoin's Grant Urken...at ITA West Regionals Katzman also advanced to the final as the No.1 seed, falling to UC Santa Cruz's Chad LeDuff...partnered senior captain Julian Gordy in doubles in both tournaments, earning a 5-2 mark in seven matches, including a tough 1-6, 6-3, 7-6(8) loss in the final of the ITA West Regional to Caltech's Shankar and Wei, where the Stags pair had one match point...came back in the spring to complete one of the most dominant dual match seasons in Stags Tennis history, going 22-0 in singles and 24-5 in doubles...played primarily at No. 2 singles and No. 2 doubles, but had seven wins at the top singles spot and three wins with partner Robert Liu at No. 1 doubles...among his 22 singles dual match wins, earned a team high four match clinches...between March 10 and May 20 lost only one singles set in 22 matches played...reached the fourth round of the 130th Pacific Coast Doubles Championships with Liu, earning wins over UCSD and UCLA teams in the process, representing the best finish at Pac Coast Doubles by a Stags doubles pair since Dorn and Wood reached the quarterfinals in 2014...Katzman earned SCIAC Athlete of the Week honors in three different weeks (Feb 25, Mar 4, and April 22)...also eaned 1st Team All-SCIAC and ITA All-American singles honors for the second straight year, and was recognized as the ITA National Player to Watch...was voted Most Valuable Player by his teammates and finished with a year-end national ranking of No. 5 for his second straight top-five finish...finished with overall records of 29-3 in singles and 31-7 in doubles...also earned ITA Scholar-Athlete accolades for a GPA of better than 3.5...2019-2020 had his best fall season to date, reaching the Flight A singles final of the ITA West Regionals and then advancing to the semifinals of the ITA Cup in Rome, GA in October...partnered Robert Liu and reached the doubles semifinals at ITA Regionals...earned final fall ITA rankings of No. 2 in the west and No. 4 nationally in singles, and No. 6 in the West with Liu in doubles...returned in the spring to play No. 2 singles and doubles, appearing in 10 singles matches and 11 doubles matches (all with Liu)...went 8-2 in singles dual matches and 9-2 in doubles play, to complete the shortened 2019-2020 season with records of 14-4 in singles and 12-3 in doubles...was honored with several national accolades, including ITA All-American singles honors for the third consecutive year, the Wilson / ITA National Promoter of the Year, ITA Scholar-Athlete honors for achieving a higher than a 3.5 GPA for the 2019-2020 academic year, and earned his third straight top-five national singles ranking, coming in at No.4 nationally, and No. 2 in the West...also earned a No. 8 West Region doubles ranking with Liu...after only two-and-a-half seasons as a Stag, Katzman has amassed 69 singles wins and 68 doubles wins (including 33 with Liu), putting him on pace to be one of CMS' most prolific in career wins...2021-2022 returned for his senior season as co-captain after taking a pause in 2020-2021 when all intercollegiate sports were suspended due to COVID...reached the quaterfinals of singles and the semifinals of doubles at the ITA West Regionals...went 2-1 in singles, losing to second year teammate Philip Martin in the quarters...paired with co-captain Robert Liu to reach the semifinals, falling to teammates Martin and Nathan Arimilli...has now reached the semis or better in the ITA Regionals doubles with three different partners (Morris, Gordy, and Liu twice)...began the spring at the No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles (with Liu) positions...had best singles stretch of the season between March 25 and April 30, where he won 12 of 14 matches at each of the top four singles positions...partnered Liu, Carroll, Robinson, and Arimilli in doubles, winning his final seven matches with Arimilli to cap an extraordinary Stags Tennis career...finished 2022 with overall records of 19-9 in singles and 24-8 in doubles, earning 1st Team All-SCIAC honors for the third time in his career (in three complete seasons) and earning a West Region year-end singles ranking of No. 20...was statistically the Stags best returner, winning 55 percent of his return games in 2022...was also the team's most consistent practice performer statistically...completes his Stags Tennis career with a staggering list of accomplishments, including overall records of 88-22 in singles and 92-25 in doubles...placing him 11th best all-time in singles matches won (88) and 9th in career singles win percentage (.800)...also places 11th best ever for wins in a single season (29 in 2019), as well as 7th best ever single season winning percentage (.906 in 2019)...in career doubles records, he stands at 12th for matches played (117), 8th for matches won (92), and 10th for winning percentage (.786)...he has the fewest career losses (25) of any Stag in the top 10 of career matches won...he and Rob Liu finish as the 9th best Stags doubles pair ever in wins (45), and 5th in winning percentage (.763)...he lands in the top 10 in all three categories of combined singles and doubles career success: 9th in combined singles and doubles matches played (227), 8th in combined singles and doubles matches won (180), and 3rd in combined singles and doubles winning percentage (.793)...remains the lone Stag in the top 10 of career combined singles and doubles wins with the fewest losses (47).

 

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