1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Nebraska Women's Tennis Coach German Dalmagro: December 11, 11:00am

Episode Date: December 11, 2025

Nebraska Women's Tennis Coach German Dalmagro joins the show to talk about the upcoming season. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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But it is Thursday, and that means it's time to welcome in Nebraska women's tennis coach, Vermont Delmogro, as well. That's what we got on the table for the next hour here on one-on-one. Hermon, a pleasure to be joined by you. How are you doing today? Doing well. Doing well. Thank you for having me.

Enjoying this another great day in Lincoln, you know, but it's good. It's always a good day to be in Lincoln, you know? Yeah. We're doing well. How are you? Yeah. Oh, not too bad. Like you said, it's a good day.

I think the vibes in Lincoln are just pretty well still coming, coming off that Nebraska basketball victory, a big victory over Wisconsin last night. You were telling me you were, you were live and in person there. I was. I took my two sons there and they enjoy. They enjoy. It was a great atmosphere, loud. Fans were happy.

Team was playing good in a groove, you know? Yeah. It was fun to watch them until I'm enjoying a lot of watching this year's team. Fred has a great squad, but I think what I'm most impressed is just how well they're working together as a team. You know, I think that's sometimes even more fun to watch. Yeah, yeah, the teamwork is. is incredible. The hustle, obviously, every element has to go

into an undefeated start for them. So it has been incredible to kind of run that down. What's your history with basketball? Did you play a lot growing up? Not much. Not much, to be honest. A little bit, but just kind of for fun. Yeah. I grew up, you know, obviously tennis, but soccer

a lot. And then basketball was more like pick up game with my friends, you know? But yeah, no, I mean, I watch it all, you know, always. I always enjoy watching And I used to watch a lot of NBA from back home until kind of like I start watching more college. And now it's kind of reversed. I think I enjoy the college, you know, a little more than the NBA.

So, but no, it's fun. It's fun. Yeah, as a coach, I wouldn't be surprised by that. It seems like the coaches can have more of a say on what goes on in college basketball than maybe in the pros. So that's interesting. I would say. Yeah. In tennis and, you know, because I like to ask a lot of different coaches,

is this. Do you like a well-rounded athlete that plays multiple sports, or is there usually a time in tennis where you kind of have to zone in on it? I mean, there's times that you do, but I think it's good to pull multiple sports growing up. I think you develop different areas of your body, your eyes, you know, high-eye coordination, your, you know, different areas of your body, you develop different parts. I think if when you were only stuck to one sport, then sometimes you you forget um i don't want to say you forget you know all the parts of your body you know but you kind of like you you build too much for the just one area you know your sport so i think when you do different sports i think i think one helps so you don't get burn out as much you know

because you kind of see you know you see different paces different sport different athletes you know i think it's good but also i think it teaches you you know a few different things from each sport you know you can bring maybe to your main sport so yeah i prefer i think that if they if they do more than one sport to be honest um because you can tell that maybe they're a little more versatile they're a little more uh you know they might be able to be a little more forgiven actually about their own sport because they realize that you know they're doing something else and it's just as hard you know so so you kind of tend to tend to uh i think develop different different aspects and and some some are more like intangibles as well, you know? Yeah. How to read or how your patience is,

you know, how good of a teammate you are. I mean, tennis is such an individual sport. So when you actually see all that athletes that are playing team sports or playing, you know, an other sport, it kind of teaches them on other things, too, all the values. And you said you got a pair of tennis and soccer growing up. Is that a commonality? Because I mean, I think of the two, obviously footwork, you know, the first, the quickness. That would seem like a good bear. It was. I think it was mostly, you know, I was born in Argentina, so soccer is kind of the main sport there, you know,

and everything else just kind of falls, falls behind that. So, you just by default, that kind of like, you know, start playing pickup soccer games. I even, you know, I was much better at soccer when I was little before I was into tennis, you know, and then it kind of got much better to tennis, you know, and then he got to a point that I have to choose one or the other, you know. I couldn't play both

competitively. But yeah, it was, it was great. I mean, I think it helped my footwork, help my, just, you know, that team environment, you know, because obviously tennis, again, it was like individual sport and soccer obviously is now, you know, so it's good to. So yeah, it was fun. You know how I enjoy. Yeah. What I can only say is an incredibly amateur play. I've tried playing tennis a few times and it's gone horribly. So that's what I got to ask you, because through my own experience is, I had neither of these. But I guess what I'm getting to is, and obviously the whole body type of deal. But what's more important do you think is your legs and getting to where you need to go

or learning, you know, with your hand and all the different type of, you know, hits and returns you can do? Yeah, it's a little of both, I would say, because it's like you can hit a good ball, you know, but if you don't get to the ball, you can't hit a good ball, right? So legs are important just to move to get there. But then having a good feel, a good racket speed acceleration and just a good timing, you got to be good with your eyes, you know, and follow the ball and all that. So you got to have a little bit of both, you know, but I will say you can move really well, but at the same time, if you don't hit it well, then it's kind of like, you know, you limit it. Yeah. But then I think you're more limited if you hit it really well, but you can't move.

Right. So it's like a little bit of both, I would say. Obviously, in soccer, it's all about the legs, you know. It's all about the legs or the lungs, you know. Yeah. Obviously, you can have a good touch, a good hit, you know, good feel for the ball. But if you can run, if you can, you know, outlast your opponents out there, you know, you're going to be in the game, you know. Now, how about for conditioning?

Because I know soccer, I mean, you got to be extremely well conditioned. Is tennis kind of on that same level? I would say, yes. Yes. It's very physical because there's not a time that we're on the course, so sometimes a match, glatz, you know, an hour and a half. have a match could last three hours and then you have to go back to back days and so it's very physical i would say it is um so being well conditioned it is and i think just knowing how to i think some of the best players just to learn how to manage kind of their own body within a match right

they can be just as fit as somebody else but they you know they breathe better they anticipate better you know they kind of like they manage their own energy better you know so i think sometimes You see that it's pretty common that some of the best players. You know, it's like, yes, they're fit as well, but they learn how to kind of how to manage that. You know, I think in tennis you excel kind of when you hit the ball. You know, you try to anticipate so you feel like you're moving less, but you're actually moving just while the ball is on the other side of the core. You're starting to anticipate. So it seems like you're conserving energy, but you just, you know, you're just moving.

a little bit on the rest. Yeah. And then, and then, too, you kind of think about how much of that and you kind of meant it to even

you're not moving the mental impact that you're kind of going through. Yeah. I mean, it's a... It's, yeah, it's very mental sport.

Yeah. It's a sport that you, that you have to live with a lot of mistakes, you know, and then you have to overcome it quick and then you have to just

be thinking, you know, almost a, it's a, it's a, kind of a reaction sport. you know you have to react and think very quickly very very often and then you're going to make mistakes but it's part of the game and you know that it has never been really a perfect tennis

match yeah you know that it's like you can be like a hall of fame error and then you're you won maybe like you know roger feather made this speech you know a couple years ago that he he's a hall of famer he's arguably the best player ever and then they said that i think he's for his career he's won you know like 54 or 56 percent of his points that he's ever play. Wow. So he's just over 50% of winning points. So it tells you how many he lose and he's a Hall of Famer, you know?

And so it's like you have to learn how to like mistakes are part of the game. And then you just have to go out and execute the try to execute the shot that you just miss. You know, I have to try to do it again. And then you have to do it over, over and again, you know. And it's very mental. It's very mental. It's frustrating. But, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

It's a skill, I think, that you kind of try to learn growing up, you know, being part of just being competitive and just trying to, it's learning how to, you know, be okay with mistakes and don't let them define you and getting back up and try to do a lot of it again, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's one of those sports, like you said, that, you know, you got to take the ups with the downs and be able to mentally stay strong throughout it because, you know, you can, you can lose a few but still be in it and try to get back in. to it so uh yeah yeah it's uh and you'd be surprised you know that you know how many mistakes you can actually make in a match and you still win matches you know it's like yeah

i mean there's actually be matches that you win less points that you're an opponent but you win just because of the way the score is you know so it's like it's it's kind of odd you know it's like you're looking at the stats you're like wait you know i have more umphorceros than my opponent or they want more points than me but i won the match yeah you're like i don't that happened, you know. So it just, it just happens. So you have to learn that, you know, that don't don't get hung up, you know, on too many mistakes and then just keep looking for the next one, you know? Yeah. Hermann DeMoggrove, the Nebraska women's tennis coach in here on one-on-one again, DP out today. I'm Jake Boccovin in studio with Hermann. And I did want to go

through too because it's kind of interesting, you know, the tennis community, hopefully gaining and growing here in Nebraska and Lincoln but I know there's a lot of a little bit of unfamiliarity maybe among the fan base or some listening audience of what exactly is a tennis season

at Nebraska because there's somewhat two of them is there not yeah there is. Yeah, absolutely yeah so our sport is pretty much a year-round sport our main season, our team season is in the spring so it goes from January all the way to May

and then uh but in the fall it's kind of more uh individual season so so we we might travel as a team we might compete together as a team in a tournament but but it all counts for individual records and uh and actually two years ago the enslave uh move their ensign individuals to the fall uh to kind of have a more of a split defined seasons so so now uh we start basically the kind of the middle of september and then we go to almost the last right before Thanksgiving, which is Enceles this year was the 18th to the 24 or something of that, and individuals. And then that's kind of, I think, the end of lay is reviewing as we speak type of deal. If we're going to keep that format moving forward, I believe it is. And I think

the main reason is that they kind of want to define the both seasons, you know, so when you start in the fall, then you start playing different tournaments, you know, different qualifying events that get you to the end of Leia. I think it defines the seasons a little more, you know? So we're, oh, yeah, pretty much in the fall, we're, it's all individual. I mean, we have players traveling kind of like all over the place, you know, sometimes we play one event that they only qualify, and then another event, maybe two qualify, and then you go travel as a team and play, you know, we hosted a fall event here,

you know, this fall, and just to bring a few teams over just to just to compete. but every result counts for kind of their own individual record and then they all try to gain enough points or qualifying events to get them to ends of lays and then we have like an all-American championship and then we have like originals and then we have like a sectionals and then all that and then try to qualify for individuals and then in the spring it's all team you know so we just focus in all team you know we play a school versus a school you know so and then yeah so it's It's exciting, you know, I think it's people at times don't understand, you know, that is a long, long year.

Year long, yeah. Yeah, so we're, I mean, we have players competing in the summers, you know, traveling around the world playing either pro tournaments or collegiate events or summer circuits type of deal. And then we get here one school star and then we basically start right away and, you know, we go until, you know, because this last week was basically the day. last week we worked with them you know first week of December and now and then we're bringing them early in January so uh and then uh and then the spring is all about team yeah and I see that's

that's uh that's coming up as we're kind of counting down 36 days till uh the open with James Madison um so in again that's kind of the team now I did want to ask you too um you know just again with some unfamiliarity to it is there a more important session or I mean are they weighed I mean They were a little more. I think, you know, I think we're more judged than how we do with the team, you know, how our team does and how our, where's our team rankings, you know, where's our team stand is in the Big Ten, all that.

I think it's, you know, individuals obviously matters because, you know, we want to recognize our individual players, how they do. And, but I think the more important season is definitely the spring. Okay. Yeah. And does it change how you approach as a coach? I mean, obviously, like you said, there's different, you know, how many matches and stuff, but.

just, I mean, a little bit, but not too much. I think the mindset is always to like try to get better, trying to improve and try to be a team. You know, we can still be playing an individual event, you know, but, but obviously the, the end goal is to try to be a better team overall. You know, so if each individual gets better, that means that they're making the team better, you know? So, so when it comes in the spring, yeah, then we wouldn't have many individual players traveling around, right, to play different tournaments. We just go all the together as a team so so that changes and then uh but the way we prepare the way we practice and all that i don't know that doesn't change uh another question i want to ask you because you don't have a large coaching staff uh you know there's a lot of moves being made in the coaching uh coaching world especially in college football and there's an unlimited amount of coaches you can get there how many coaches are in your coaching staff yeah we right now we have just i just have one assistant and then we have a director operations that they can actually be but in tennis we're allowed three coaches. Okay. And that's it. You know, and then right now, I, you know, our director

ops can be our basically our second assistant, you know, the third coach. But he's, you know, he's director of office with both sports. So he's, he's busy. But other than that, I just have one assistant coach. So it's just two of us. And then, you know, that's how we go about it. You know, there's a few programs that, uh, that do have, uh, three pay coaches. You know, we don't hear um but um yeah it's just us and then we we we kind of i do pretty much all the scheduling and then uh you know and me and my assistant kind of both were recruiting you know i was just uh recruiting you know until a couple days ago and um yeah it's uh yeah it's uh you got to wear a little hats yeah yeah definitely uh you know we don't have the the same you know obviously

support stuff and some bigger sports have but uh but it's good you know we'll we'll we'll make it work and yeah you know and just have to adjust and adapt and you know do the best you can well the roster size isn't all that big either do you have eight we'll be nine in the spring potentially 10 okay and our roster

size cannot be bigger than 10 so okay so on that side you know it kind of makes sense can manage it a little bit more yeah you can definitely manage it even though it's uh you know being an individual sport we'll have to sometimes we spend a lot of hours on the core because each player needs their own attention you know so we do individuals

with them besides team practice. So sometimes some days can be very long because we're spending one-on-one time with them, you know, an hour with each, you know? Yeah. So sometimes we bring each one, you know, a few times a week for individuals besides team practice. So sometimes I could get along, you know,

because we like to, I think that's sometimes the best way to develop them is, you know, spending a lot of one-on-one time. Sure. That's what I was going to ask, would it help to have 10 coaches or does it really help not? I mean, sometimes there's too many chefs in the kitchen, right?

Is it nice to be able to control every point of the program? I mean, yeah, I think too many might be too many voices. Yeah. And then it's like, who do they go to? You know, so I like to keep our circle somehow small. But I also think it would help to have maybe one more. I mean, maybe to a point it would, but I think more than I think, I think we can manage it. Yeah.

And I think it's, you know, I, you know, obviously I like to control. But we have a good team, you know, surround us that I think we do a good job working together. And I think the biggest thing is, you know, knowing that we're on the same pace and we're all trying to, you know, just be better as a team and help our student athletes, you know, the best way we can. Yeah, it's interesting, though, because I was thinking, too, as, you know, you don't have a big staff, obviously. But like, and you've been through this. So anybody, you know, I was just kind of thinking when you first get the job. I mean, is that one of the first thing you think of is who's, okay, I need, I need, you know, an assistant. You know, is that one of the first things you kind of think of or was the, you know, roster?

What was the process of getting the job? I think it's, yeah, the first was, the roster was kind of all set, you know, when I go here. So there were not really many moving parts. I think it was, yeah, first just trying to get assistance and trying to build that, you know, the stuff. And then and then kind of kind of go from there, you know. Yeah. Yeah, it's a, you know, it's, it's tricky, you know, because we'll spend a little time together. And I think it's important to just kind of be in the same page and, you know, and not have any much of an egos, you know, and then just kind of all work for a common goal.

You know, we try to make, you know, Nebraska women's tennis better. Yeah. That's, that's the goal, you know. So, yeah, it's been fun. Yeah. Well, what is it? Because I know people, too, that listen to this radio program have, hear from Peter Cobelt from time to time. Yeah. Maddie is his sister and is your assistant coach. What stood out to you about her

and bringing her on? Yeah, you know, just like I wanted to bring somebody that I really had experienced, you know, playing and coaching and, you know, you didn't have to kind of like show the ropes about everything, you know? So yeah, so throughout the process, I just talked to quite a few, you know, candidates and yeah, I just stood out because, you know, she has a good playing background as well. you know, and she played some, some pro as well. So she has experience that it could help maybe transition, you know, with our own players, recruiting as well, you know,

that she's kind of been traveling everywhere, you know. So, yeah, it was good. You know, she cares about the athletes and, you know, she's a work hard, works hard, you know. So it's, it was good, you know, so it's been good so far. Yeah, yeah, good selection. Let's go ahead and take a break again. Nebraska women's tennis coach, Hermann Delmarro.

uh in studio with us we still got two segments don't go anywhere we'll be back with one on one on 93 seven the ticket