PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's and women's tennis teams will get their 2025 seasons underway simultaneously with consecutive doubleheaders, both taking on Prairie View on Sunday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. before facing Alcorn State Monday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
It will mark the beginning of a new season with another opportunity for both teams to extend their historic success.
The women are coming off a pair of championships, taking home both the SLC regular season and tournament titles in 2024. It saw them making their fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, one of just 34 teams out of 328 programs in NCAA Division I to make an appearance in each of the last four NCAAs.
They hold the conference record for most tournament championships, with the 2024 season earning them their seventh for another conference record of seven NCAA Tournament appearances.
The women will see the return of 2024 SLC Tournament MVP
Ana Veroux, a now-sophomore captain of the Islanders. Also returning from that championship squad is sophomore
Zoe Moley, while fresh faces
Juliette Jalai,
Adriana Jimenez Casado,
Yana Mykytyn,
Kseniya Ramanouskaya,
Leticia Tarocco, and
Josefa Fuenzalida will look to add a boost to the new-look Islanders.
On the men's side, the Islanders are one of the winningest programs in conference history among all sports with the second most total championships at 22. They also hold the conference records among tennis programs with 12 regular season titles and 10 tournament championships.
The men return
Etienne Marty,
Nicolas Trebuchet,
Matthieu Coignet, and
Nicholas Niox Chateau from 2024. They bulked up 2025 with the additions of
Tom Berry,
Nathan Favier,
Harry Fouzas,
Josef Zapletal, and
Omar Suarez.
Favier, Berry, and Fouzas have already gotten a taste of the program's standard this year, winning their respective brackets to sweep the 2024 Southland Conference Fall Individual Championships. Favier won matches against Lamar, UIW, and the 2024 Tournament MVP from NJIT to secure the singles bracket championship. Berry/Fouzas teamed up for doubles play and won all three of their matches in straight sets to win the doubles bracket.
Most of this historic success has come under the direction of head coach
Steve Moore, the winningest tennis coach in conference history, who enters his 22nd season at the helm of Islanders Tennis. He has guided the program to a combined 33 conference titles and 16 NCAA Tournament appearances, the most at the same school among any coach in the Southland Conference.
"We are excited beyond words for this journey together as the Islanders Tennis family! This team has worked so hard to earn the right to be confident and we believe deeply in their heart and character! This is really a special group that is so committed to team unity and the athletic discipline lifestyle. They have worked incredibly hard and improved so much! Every season really is the same with injuries, adversity, highs and lows, and you just have to keep choosing the character road. You have to keep encouraging and influencing each other to take the character road! It's amazing how much we need each other on this journey, and we are so excited and blessed to lead this group on another championship journey that ultimately prepares them to be champions in their families, jobs, friendships, and communities!" said Moore.
A&M-Corpus Christi Tennis
- 17 NCAA Tournaments
- 35 SLC Championships
- 4 Top-40 National Rankings
- 3.0 GPA 43 Straight Semesters
- Islanders have received a No. 3 seed at the NCAA Tournament three times
- Women's tennis has cracked the ITA top-75 national rankings three times
- Men's tennis has cracked the ITA national rankings 10 consecutive years
- Ranked nationally in NCAA DI as high as No. 35 for the men and No. 60 for the women
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