Alabama A&M Women Win First HBCU Tennis Tournament, Tennessee State Repeats as Men’s Champion

Two latest national champions from all over the world HBCU Tennis: Alabama A&M women’s tennis team and Tennessee State University men’s tennis team won titles of their divisions.

According to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), each teams and 33 other HBCUs he competed within the twenty third Annual HBCU National Tennis Championships on the South Fulton Tennis Center in Georgia from September 14-16. After scoring 84 points, the Alabama A&M women’s team took first place, winning its first championship. In the boys’s division, Tennessee State University, which won the title last 12 months, repeated the feat, tying with Hampton University. Tie-breaking rules apply to head-to-head matches between schools, and Tennessee edged Hampton with three wins and two losses.

Second place went to the Hampton University women’s team with 73 points, followed closely by North Carolina Central University with 57 points.

The North Carolina Central men’s team finished third with 82 points.

On its website, the HBCU National Tennis Championship States that the tournament gives schools a likelihood to compete with other HBCUs with a likelihood to be considered the most effective within the country. The game is open to all HBCUs. Each 12 months, greater than 15 schools (over 30 men’s and ladies’s tennis programs) with as much as 250 players show as much as compete in singles and doubles play.

Tournament results:

Women’s Team Classification

• Alabama A&M University – 84
• Hampton University – 73
• North Carolina Central University – 57
• Morgan State University – 55
• Tennessee State University – 55
• Alabama State University – 54
• Jackson State University – 46
• Florida A&M University – 44
• Shaw University – 32
• Delaware State University – 30
• Xavier University of Louisiana – 29
• Tuskegee University – 21
• Albany State University – 15
• Alcorn State University – 11
• Clark-Atlanta University – 10
• Spring Hill High School – 8
• Benedict College – 8
• Southern University – 7
• Bethune Cookman University – 2
• LeMoyne-Owen College – 0

Men’s Team Classification

• Tennessee State University – 87 (H2H vs. ASU: 3-2)
• Alabama State University – 87
• North Carolina Central University – 82
• Jackson State University – 57
• Hampton University – 39
• Morgan State University – 39
• Alabama A&M University – 83
• Spring Hill – 23
• Tuskegee University – 21
• Shaw University – 17
• Alcorn State University – 15
• Benedict College – 12
• Xavier University of Louisiana – 10
• Southern University – 6
• LeMoyne Owen Collegeme – 0

The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) oversees college tennis, supervising men’s and ladies’s collegiate competition in any respect levels – NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA, and Junior/Community College.