ROME, Ga. (April 30, 2026) – The University of North Alabama ladies’s tennis group will proceed its 2026 season after incomes an invite to compete on the 2026 UTR Sports NIT Championships from May 5-7 in Rome, Ga. This would be the second straight season UNA has been chosen for this occasion.
The NIT championship will likely be hosted on the Rome Tennis Center at Berry College, compiled of an eight-team subject. The remainder of the sphere consists of Kansas State, North Texas, Arkansas State, Army, McNeese State, Charleston and Northern Illinois.
North Alabama earned the fourth seed and opens the championships towards fifth-seeded Army on May 5 at 11:30 a.m. ET.
This years’ championships mark the fourth total rendition. UNA Women’s Tennis preps for its second look after incomes its first bid in 2025. The Lions received one twin within the match, tallying a 4-2 quarterfinals’ victory over Middle Tennessee on May 7. The victory was the primary over MTSU in program historical past.
The 2025 match resulted in Chattanooga and Washington State win the lads’s and ladies’s titles, respectively. Tulsa received the lads’s and ladies’s titles in 2024, and Liberty Men’s Tennis and TCU Women’s Tennis received the inaugural competitors in 2023.
The Lions look to add to their 15 wins this season — tied for the second-most in Division I program historical past. UNA tied a program file with 11-straight wins over the span of a month, marking the second-straight season attaining the feat.
The season was highlighted by a number of first-time victories, together with Arkansas State, Louisiana, Belmont and Milwaukee. The Lions moreover took house 4 postseason honors and one Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament victory.
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