• Washington and Lee went 9-0 during the ODAC regular season and 16-7 overall, finishing the year as the 20th-ranked team in Division III.
• Averett went 8-1 and 17-5 to earn the No. 33 ranking by season's end.
• The Generals commanded the top-seed in the ODAC Tournament followed (in order) by Averett, Hampden-Sydney, Shenandoah, Virginia Wesleyan, Randolph, Guilford, and Lynchburg.
• Quarterfinals
  • Match 1: WLU def. LYN, 4-0
  • Match 2: SU def. VWU, 4-3
  • Match 3: RAND def. HSC, 4-2
  • Match 4: AU def. GC, 4-0
• Semifinals
  • Match 5: WLU def. SU, 4-0
  • Match 6: AU def. RAND, 4-2
• Championship
  • Match 7: AU def. WLU, 4-3
• Averett's victory marked the Cougars' first ODAC men's tennis championship.
  • They snapped a streak of 14 straight titles won by Washington and Lee.

• TEAM TOURNAMENT
  • ODAC champion Averett entered the Division III bracket of 44 teams for the first time since 2000.
  • The Cougars traveled to Emory University for early round action in a 5-team pod that also included Asbury College, University of Redlands, and Sewanee
    • First Round: AU def. Asbury, 4-0
    • Second Round: Emory def. AU, 4-0
• SINGLES/DOUBLES TOURNAMENT
  • Washington and Lee's Evan Erb was the lone ODAC player to qualify for the individual singles tournament; he fell to Jacob Patterson from national team champion Denison (3-6, 2-6) in the first round.
  • Erb was a two-time singles tournament qualifier and earned IT All-American honors in 2023-24.

• Dual Matches
  • Eight ODAC schools competed in traditional dual matches, albeit with a new scoring format for a second season where the full-play team score is now at seven-points – 1 point for each singles match won and 1 point for winning a majority (or all three) of the doubles matches.
  • Three league matches featured among the fall season contests.
    • Washington and Lee is 2-0 following wins over Roanoke and Virginia Wesleyan.
    • Randolph is 1-0 after defeating Randolph-Macon.
  • WLU and Randolph are both 2-0 overall, while VWU is 2-1.
  • Lynchburg and Bridgewater claimed one early season non-conference victory each.
• ITA Southeast Regional Championships – ODAC Results
  • Singles Highlights - Championship Draw
    • Championship Draw: SU's Dominick Suwak was the lone ODAC player to reach the Round of 16 let alone the quarterfinals in the main championship draw; Suwak won three times over players from Bridgewater (Corey Beshoar), Washington and Lee (Pearce Lane), and Johns Hopkins (Mukundh Boopathi) before falling to Alex Feies from Carnegie Mellon in the quarterfinals.
    • B3 Draw: WLU's Harrison Silver finished as the runner-up after posting three wins over players from Haverford (Stefan Johnson), Swarthmore (Nicholas Choo), and Johns Hopkins (Daniel Greene) before falling to Winston Zhang from Swarthmore in the final.
  • Doubles Highlights - Championship Draw
    • Championship Draw: VWU's duo of Sebastien Muller and Jed Platts enjoyed the deepest run, posting three victories over squads from Goucher, Johns Hopkins, and Mary Washington before falling to a pair from JHU in the quarterfinals.
    • B1 Draw: two ODAC tandems enjoyed multiple wins in the main draw.
      • H-SC's Casey Coffey and Dillon McReynolds won three times, besting a pair from Salisbury and two squads from Washington and Lee to reach the finals; Coffey and McReynolds fell to Chaitanya Krishna and Aarush Kumar from Haverford to finish second in the B1 Draw.
      • Randolph's Carlos Haupt and Vincenzo Marchese earned a pair of wins over Washington College and Johns Hopkins before bowing out in the semifinals to Haverford's draw-winning team.
    • B2 Draw: H-SC's Jonathon Fogle and Slade Funderburk won the B2 Draw, posting wins over squads from Bridgewater and Shenandoah before defeating Jason Duval and Aksel Tinnes-Rimehaugh from Randolph; the WildCats duo posted wins over teams from Moravian and Lynchburg to reach the finals.

The ITA posted Division III singles and doubles rankings on November 12, while the team national rankings were published on January 14 in prelude to the spring season.

• National Rankings (click here)
  • Washington and Lee opens the spring season as the 33rd-ranked team in Division III with Averett right behind the Generals in 34th position.
  • Shenandoah's Dominick Suwak is the lone ODAC player appearing in the national singles rankings, slotting 46th to start the spring.
  • No conference doubles teams feature among the top-25 in Division III.
• Regional Rankings
  • Shenandoah's duo of Lucas Beasley and Dominick Suwak are the 10th-ranked tandem in the ITA's Atlantic South Region.
  • Suwak is the lone ODAC singles player among the South's top-20, ranking 11th.

The contingent of returning All-ODAC stars in 2026 is a bit of a mixed bag with just 3-of-8 All-ODAC First Team singles players back on league rosters, but four special individual award honorees return as well as 10-of-16 All-ODAC doubles standouts featuring three full tandems and halves of four others.

Reigning ODAC Coach of the Year Bert Poole welcomes back 2-of-4 all-conference singles players plus two full units from the all-league doubles lists. That group includes Florian Bert, who earned ODAC Co-Rookie of the Year laurels in 2025 along with Washington and Lee's Ryan Good.

Shenandoah star Dominick Suwak returns to Winchester after his ODAC Player of the Year campaign last year. He and Good along with the Generals' Heys Parker are the only three first team singles players returning to league courts.

• All-ODAC First Team Singles Returners
  • #1 Singles: Dominick Suwak, Shenandoah University
  • #5 Singles: Heys Parker, Washington and Lee University
  • #6 Singles: Ryan Good, Washington and Lee University
• All-ODAC First Team Doubles Returners
  • #1 Doubles: Jacob Martin / Andreas Mulner - Randolph College
  • #2 Doubles: Heys Parker - Washington and Lee University
  • #3 Doubles: Tudor Vlad - Virginia Wesleyan
• All-ODAC Second Team Singles Returners
  • #1 Singles: Andres Mercedes, Guilford College
  • #2 Singles: Thomas Davis, Hampden-Sydney College
  • #5 Singles: Rafael Jodas, Averett University
  • #6 Singles: Lucas Fiandra, Averett University
• All-ODAC Second Team Doubles Returners
  • #1 Doubles: Andres Mercedes - Guilford College
  • #1 Doubles: Thomas Davis - Hampden-Sydney
  • #2 Doubles: Sam Egui / Rafael Jodas - Averett University
  • #3 Doubles: Alex Donnelly / Florian Bert - Averett University

• By the end of the season, ODAC teams will have competed in eight conference matches.
• League squads will also continue a robust non-conference slate as scheduled by the schools.
• The first spring matches begin the weekend of February 14-15.
• The first three ODAC matches of the season were competed during the fall campaign with the first one of the spring featuring Randolph at Roanoke on February 18.
• The ODAC Tournament is a standard eight-team bracket with competition covering three rounds. Washington and Lee will serve as host of both the women's and men's final fours.
  • Quarterfinals: Tuesday, April 28 at #1-4 Seeds
  • Semifinals: Saturday, May 2 at Washington and Lee (8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. ET)
  • Championship: Sunday, May 3 at Washington and Lee (10:00 a.m. ET)
• Selections for the NCAA Division III Championship will be announced on Monday, May 4 on ncaa.com.