GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University men's and women's teams will swing into action this weekend as they will get the 2023-24 season underway, competing in the Colorado College Invitational at Memorial Park in Colorado Springs.
 
Action is slated to get underway at 8 a.m. on both days and will include flighted compass-draw brackets in both singles and doubles.  All results will be for individual records only and team scores will not be kept.
 
Who's Competing
 
The Mavericks and Head Coach Dan MacDonald have entered eight men and nine women in the singles draws.  They will also have four doubles pairings in each of the men's and women's field.
 
A complete listing of the Mavericks' entries and probable doubles pairings can be found below.
 
The Mavericks will be playing against players from the host Tiger squad as well as Air Force (men), CSU Pueblo (women), Hastings, MSU Denver and Seward Community College.
 
Men's Singles
Jorge Abreu
Emil Hultman
Philemon Jabin
William Leschig
Diogo Manzano
Henry Scheck
Axel Scholl
Shawn Springer
 
Men's Doubles
Leschig/Scheck
Manzano/Jabin
Abreu/Hultman
Springer/Scholl

Women's Singles
Julianna Campos
Issy Coman
Kenna Kelley
Makenna Livingston
Delia Maier
Audrey O'Rear
Devyn Rodriguez
Jane Steur
Kristen Thomas
 
Women's Doubles
Coman/Livingston
Campos/Rodriguez
Maier/Thomas
O'Rear/Steur
 
Tournament/Match Format
 
Each singles player is guaranteed to play three or four matches in "A", "B" and "C" compass-style draws.   Doubles teams will play between two and four matches.
 
Singles matches are slated to be played as best of 3 sets, with no ad scoring and a 10-point tie-breaker for matches that go to a third set.  Doubles will be a single 6-game set with no ad scoring a tiebreaker at 6-6.
 
New Mavs
 
The Maverick men have three newcomers on their 2023-24 roster, all of whom are expected to see their first action as a Maverick this weekend.
 
The list includes two transfers in former Ventura College standout Philemon Jabin, who originally hails from Brussels, Belgium as well as Concordia (Neb.) transfer Shawn Springer, who is originally from Aurora, Colorado.  Scholl joins the Maverick program as a freshman out of Manheim, Germany.
 
The Maverick women have two newcomers in freshman Shannon Roberts and Devyn Rodriguez.  Roberts is from Ketchum, Idaho and played her prep tennis for the IMG Academy in Florida.  Rodriguez was a stand-out at Chandler High School in Chandler, Arizona.
 
Top returners
 
The Maverick women return both of their top players from last year's lineup in now senior Issy Coman and junior Makenna Livingston.  Coman went 15-6 overall and 13-4 in dual meets last year, playing in the No. 1 and 2 spots of the lineup.  She was 9-3 at No. 2 and 4-1 in the top flight, when Livingston rested.  Livingston had a 12-14 overall record and was 7-13 in duals while earning Third Team All-PacWest honors in 2022-23.
 
Kristen Thomas also had a solid 13-8 freshman campaign while senior Julianna Campos finished with a winning 9-8 dual meet record while winning her last three singles decisions last year.
 
German sophomore William Leschig, fifth-year senior Jorge Abreu and sophomores Emil Hultman, Diogo Manzano, and Henry Scheck lead an extensive list of men's returnees.  Leschig was 12-13 overall and 9-10 in dual meets last year, primarily at the No. 2 spot.  He also went 2-2 in spot starts in the top flight.
 
Abreu played throughout the Maverick lineup, going 11-12 overall and 9-10 in duals.  Hultman was 8-12 (5-10 in duals), mostly at No. 3, while Scheck had a strong freshman campaign, leading the team in singles wins with 14 while going 12-1 in duals in the third through sixth flights.  Manzano also had a solid 9-7 overall record, including an 8-5 dual meet mark in those same flights.
 
Up Next
 
After this weekend's individual style tournament, the Mavericks will get the team portion of their schedule underway next weekend traveling to the Pueblo Duals.  CMU's men will play Lubbock Christian and Pratt Community College next Friday (Sept. 15) while the women will play Nebraska-Kearney and Dallas Baptist that day.  They will also take on Lubbock Christian and Fort Hays State next Saturday (Sept. 16).
 
The rest of the fall
 
The Mavs will continue a busy month of September traveling to Fresno, California for the Sept. 21-23 ITA West Regional Championships.  The women will then wrap up the fall a week later, playing host to CSU Pueblo in a Sept. 30 home dual at 9 a.m.
 
The 2024 spring portion of the schedule has not yet been announced.