{"id":2267,"date":"2023-12-15T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:44:51","slug":"mens-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2023\/12\/15\/mens-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2023\/12\/rg32-019-015-005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2023\/12\/rg32-019-015-005-1024x818.jpg\" alt=\"Men's Tennis Team, 1961\" class=\"wp-image-2276\" style=\"width:304px;height:243px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2023\/12\/rg32-019-015-005-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2023\/12\/rg32-019-015-005-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2023\/12\/rg32-019-015-005-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2023\/12\/rg32-019-015-005.jpg 1413w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Men&#8217;s Tennis Team, 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Men&#8217;s Tennis<\/strong> is one of the intercollegiate sports played at <strong>Old Dominion University (ODU)<\/strong>. Matches are currently played at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2019\/05\/31\/folkes-stevens-indoor-tennis-center\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"978\">Folkes-Stevens Indoor Tennis Center<\/a>. The men&#8217;s tennis team is a member of the Sun Belt Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>While tennis has been an intramural sport at ODU as far back as the 1930s, men&#8217;s tennis gained National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I status in 1976. During the 1994-1995 season, the coaches for the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams were combined into one coaching staff. The team won the Sun Belt Conference Championship from 2023 through 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Head Coaches<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ken Rand (1976-1994)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Darryl Cummings (1994-2016)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominik Mueller (2016-Present)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">References<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Old Dominion University Athletics Website, Old Dominion University,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/odusports.com\/\">https:\/\/odusports.com\/<\/a>, accessed 2023 December 15.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men&#8217;s Tennis is one of the intercollegiate sports played at Old Dominion University (ODU). Matches are currently played at the Folkes-Stevens Indoor Tennis Center. The men&#8217;s tennis team is a member of the Sun Belt Conference. History While tennis has been an intramural sport at ODU as far back as the 1930s, men&#8217;s tennis gained&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2023\/12\/15\/mens-tennis\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[5,6,7,11],"tags":[38,17,320,527,14,18,22,321],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}