POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - The Marist University men's tennis team opens its fall season against Union on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at the Marist Tennis Pavilion. The match is set to begin at 6:30 p.m.
 

LAST YEAR

• The Red Foxes won the regular season conference title last year after finishing with an 8-0 record and a 14-5 overall mark.
• It marked the 12th time in program history that Marist went undefeated in conference play and the first since 2013-14. The 14 wins were the program's most in a season since 2016-17, and the Red Foxes posted the highest winning percentage in the conference (.737). 
• The season came to an end with a 4-1 loss to Rider in the Conference Championships final.
• Marist returns two All-Conference selections from last season: sophomore Alejandro Abella Fernandez, who was named to the All-Conference Singles Second Team, and senior Thomas Bevan, who earned All-Conference Doubles First Team honors.

A NEW LEADER

• Marist Athletics announced the hiring of Andrew Sendek as the new Director of Tennis in early September.
• Sendek joins Marist after serving as the head men's and women's tennis coach at the University of Mount Olive during the 2025-26 season. In his first season at Mount Olive, Sendek led the men's program to an 11-0 record in Conference Carolina play, marking the program's first undefeated conference season since 2015. The Trojans finished as the Conference Carolina tournament runner-up, while Sendek was named the conference's Men's Coach of the Year.
• Under Sendek's guidance, Mount Olive also produced the 2026 Conference Carolina Men's Freshman of the Year and six All-Conference selections. The men's team earned four selections, including two first-team, one second-team and one third-team honoree, while the women's team had two second-team selections.

SCOUTING UNION

• The Garnet Chargers finished last season with an 11-10 record.
• Union won the opening round of the Liberty League Tournament before falling to Vassar in the semifinals.
• The Garnet Chargers return 11 players from last year.

up next

• The Red Foxes head to the Army Invite in West Point, New York on September 19th and 20th.