Texas Border Business
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) men’s tennis team announced on Wednesday that they will kick off their spring season on January 12 at Texas Christian University.
The match at TCU will be the first of 21 matches this spring leading up to the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Tournament which will be hosted by Lamar University from April 22-24 in Beaumont.
“I’m very excited to get the season kicked off,” UTRGV head coach Nathan Robinson said. “Our guys have been preparing very hard this fall and offseason, knowing we have a fun and challenging schedule ahead. It’s always great to get teams like TCU, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, and Texas A&M on the schedule so we can measure ourselves against the elite. We will have a great opportunity this spring to grow as a program and prove ourselves. It should be a fun spring.”
The match at TCU will also be the first of seven matches on the road to start the season as the Vaqueros will also visit Texas Tech on Jan. 13, Rice on Jan. 29, St. Mary’s and UTSA on Jan. 30, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, as part of the South Texas Showdown, presented by Navy Army Community Credit Union, on Feb. 2, and will face Idaho State in a neutral site match on Feb. 4.
The Vaqueros will have their first home match on Feb. 15 when they host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at the Orville Cox Tennis Center as part of the showdown. The Vaqueros will then host Incarnate Word on Feb. 18
UTRGV will hit the road for the next three matches to face Oklahoma State on Feb. 26, Louisiana on March 11, and Nicholls State on March 12 before returning home on March 15 to host NJIT.
WAC play kicks off on March 18 when the Vaqueros visit New Mexico State before playing Chicago State on March 19 in a neutral site match in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The Vaqueros will then visit Lamar on March 25 before facing Abilene Christian in a neutral site match on March 26 in Beaumont.
“It’s great having the additions of Abilene Christian and Lamar to the conference,” Robinson said. “Not only do they give us regional rivals, but also deepens our conference with more great coaches and programs. I look forward to growing those rivalries and competing against them next year and in the future.”
The Vaqueros return to WAC play on April 8 when they face Seattle U in a neutral site match in Abilene followed by a neutral site match against Grand Canyon on April 9.
The Vaqueros will then close out the regular season with a couple of road matches at Texas A&M on April 10 and at Prairie View A&M on April 16.
The 2022 NCAA Regional Championships will take place from May 6-14 at regional sites with the NCAA Championships taking place May 19-28 at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex in Urbana, Illinois.
