The St. Thomas Aquinas College Men's Tennis team will make its eighth straight appearance in East Coast Conference Championship Tournament on Friday at the Queens College Tennis Center in Flushing, New York. Second-year Head Coach Dan Rockhill and his #2 seeded Spartans are set to take on the #3 seeded University of the District of Columbia in the semifinal round.
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When and Where: Friday, April 26 at 12:00 p.m. from the Queens College Tennis Center in Flushing, New York. Fans can watch the match LIVE on the ECC Network.
Postseason History: St. Thomas Aquinas has had recent success in the ECC tournament, having won the program's first-ever championship in 2022. The Spartans have also reached the finals in four of the last five seasons (2020 Season Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic).
Season Series: During the 2024 Regular Season, STAC and UDC met twice, with the maroon and gold taking both matchups. March 2 @ Orangeburg, N.Y. (STAC 7/UDC 0) and April 12 @ Washington, D.C. (STAC 5/UDC 2).
Regional & National Rankings: St. Thomas Aquinas currently holds the #3 position in this week's NCAA Division II East Region Poll.
All-Conference Accolades: Freshman Seth Newman (Cambridge, England) was selected the ECC Men's Tennis Rookie of the Year, as voted on by the league's four head coaches and announced on Thursday afternoon, ahead of this weekend's 2024 ECC Men's Tennis Championship. Additionally, sophomore Ondrej Sramek (Trebechovice pod Orebem, Czech Republic) was named to the All-Conference Team.
Leading the Way: STAC earned the second seed in the tournament after finishing with a 13-6 overall record and a 4-2 ECC mark. The Spartans will lean on Alberto Espinosa Navarro, Tobias Fuerschuss, Ivan Laiz, Lennart Lehmann, Don Vinz Lominoque, Ondrej Sramek and Ludovico Truffelli to bring their experiences of playing in last year's postseason tournament to this season's championship chase. Seth Newman, Henry Ronnberg and Nathan Yacar headline the newest members of the maroon and gold getting their first playoff experiences.
And Then There Were Four: The first semifinal matchup of the 2024 East Coast Conference Men's Tennis Championship Tournament on Friday features the No. 4 Daemen University Wildcats taking on the top-seed and hosts Queens College Knights at 8:45 a.m. The winners of Friday's semifinals will square off in the ECC final Saturday (April 27) at 5:30 p.m. in Queens, New York.
Charting A New Path To The NCAA Tournament: As part of a new format agreement between the East Coast Conference and the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC), the winners of each league will do battle to decide who receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II East Regional Tournament. That match will take place on Saturday, May 4 at Queens College.