WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – William & Mary head men's tennis coach
Jeff Kader announced the Tribe's 2022-23 schedule on Friday.
The fall features four events, including a pair of ITA events in the All-American Championships and the Atlantic Region Championships.
The dual-match season is highlighted by the opener on Jan. 20 when No. 4-ranked Baylor visits the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center. In total, 10 of the Tribe's 19 dual matches will be played at home. Including Baylor, the Green and Gold plays six teams that competed in the 2021 NCAA Tournament. The Tribe will also host the 2023 CAA Championship at the Mackesy Tennis Center at the Millie West Courts.
W&M opens the fall season at the Penn Invitational, Sept. 16-18. It marks the first time the Tribe will compete at the event since 2018.
The Tribe wraps up the month of September and opens October competing at the ITA Men's All-American Championships, Sept. 30-Oct. 4, in Tulsa, Okla. The ITA All-American Championship is one of the collegiate tennis national championship events of the fall season.
For the fourth time in the last five years, the Green and Gold will compete at the River City Open at both the University of Richmond and the Collegiate School. The event is slated for Oct. 7-9.
W&M will play in the ITA Atlantic Region Championships, Oct. 19-24, which will be hosted by the University of Virginia. The regional singles finalists and the doubles champion earn automatic entry into the 2022 ITA National Fall Championships, Nov. 2-6, in San Diego, Calif. Jamie Whiteford won the Tribe's most recent regional title with the singles crown in 2011, while the duo of Alex Cojanu and Colin O'Brien won the latest double crown at the 2007 Mideast Regional.
After opening the spring at the Virginia Tech Tournament, Jan. 14-16, the Tribe will kick off a four-match homestand, beginning with Baylor. W&M will play another NCAA Tournament team in South Carolina State on Jan. 21. The Tribe hosts Liberty on Feb. 4 followed by its first CAA tilt of the season at home against Hampton (Feb. 10).
Along with the Pirates, the Tribe will also host CAA foe Delaware on March 19. W&M's two CAA road matches will come at Drexel on Feb. 25 and Elon on April 1. As part of the team's visit to Philadelphia to take on the Dragons, the Green and Gold will square off with Penn, which played in the NCAA Tournament last season, the following day.
The Tribe's home schedule also includes visits from Old Dominion (Feb. 18), Richmond (Feb. 19) and Gardner-Webb (March 13). W&M hosts two more NCAA Tournament teams in Navy (April 2) and VCU (April 18) during the month of April.
The Green and Gold's first road trip of the dual-match season comes on Feb. 12 at Big Ten foe Penn State. As part of the away slate, W&M heads to the western part of the state to square off with reigning Big South Champion Radford (March 3) and former CAA rival James Madison (March 4). The Tribe's road schedule will also include a three-match trip to the Lone Star State to take on UTSA (March 24), Cal Poly (March 25) and Rice (March 26).