2025 'Roo Tennis Season Preview

SHERMAN, Texas - The Austin College men's and women's tennis teams head into the 2025 campaign with both squads featuring plenty of youth, as each one of head coach Syvoney Ybarra's teams has just one senior, and the 'Roos will be looking to rise up the standings in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference in the year ahead.

Trey Salyer returns to lead the 'Roo men's team, heading into his final season in Sherman after competing as the team's number one singles player and a member of the number one doubles team a year ago, as does Joel Colunga, who had a strong start to his career and will be expected to step into more of a leadership role in his sophomore campaign. Both players won one match at singles last season, with Colunga competing on lines three and four, while Colunga helped the team to a pair of doubles wins playing on line two. 

Rounding out the men's team this year are a pair of newcomers in Cruz Rocha, who comes to Sherman from Fort Stockton, as well as Patrick Fenner, a Corpus Christi native. Both players will be counted on for immediate contributions throughout the spring campaign. 

Bailey Standokes is the lone senior on the women's team and will once again be one of the program's top performers following a year in which she won four singles matches playing on line three, adding a pair of doubles victories in flight one competition, and a talented group of sophomores will help Ybarra's team in the new season. Karsyn Clouse had an outstanding fall, reaching the Flight C singles semifinals at the ITA Regionals, and last season matched Standokes for the most singles wins on the team, picking up four victories while competing as the team's number one throughout the course of her freshman campaign. 

Emma Davidson also returns after a strong first year in Sherman, winning three matches on line two in singles competition and teaming with Standokes for a line one doubles victory. Kaitlin Clasby also returns for her sophomore season after missing much of last year due to injury, while Lauren Hofeldt, Olivia Sanchez, and Natalie Valle bolster this year's squad as its three newcomers. 

Austin College opens the season on February 7, with the women taking on Trinity while both teams will compete against Concordia (Tex.), with those matches taking place in Georgetown.