GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University tennis teams will look to close out what has been a strong fall season, competing in this week's Intercollegiate Tennis Association West Regional Championships in southern California.
Biola University is hosting the 3-day tournament, which begins Thursday morning at four separate sites in the area before coalescing at the Biola Tennis Center in La Mirada, California for the remainder of the tournament on Friday and Saturday.
Follow the Mavs
The draws for the tournament have been made and are
posted on the ITA website. Results will be posted on that page throughout the week.
Daily recaps will also be posted on
www.cmumavericks.com each evening.
Live streams for the matches at Biola can be found here:
live.biola.edu/tennis/.
Action is slated to begin at 8 a.m. PDT (9 a.m. Mountain) at all four locations on Thursday morning with two rounds of doubles play before moving into two rounds of singles play.
The singles semifinals and finals as well as the doubles final will be played on Saturday.
Locations
The Maverick men will play at Azusa Pacific University (701 E. Foothill Blvd., Azusa, CA 91702) and Citrus College (1000 W. Foothill Blvd., Glendora, CA 91741) on Thursday while the women will be at Biola (13800 Biola Ave., La Mirada, CA 90639) and Whittier College (13729 Earlham Dr., Whittier, CA 90602) that day.
Friday and Saturday's action will all be at Biola.
Tournament Format
The men's and women's singles draws both feature 64 players, who will need to win six matches to claim the regional title. Those matches will played in the traditional best two out of three sets format. Matches in the round of 64 and 32 will use a 10-point third-set tiebreaker as needed. A full third set will be played from the round of 16 on if necessary.
Singles players who lose in the first round can sign up for a consolation draw, which will feature one round of matches on Thursday afternoon and the rest on Friday afternoon and evening. All of those consolation matches will be decided by 8-game pro sets.
The main doubles draw features 32 women's duos and 31 men's pairs, one of which has received a first round bye. Those matches will also be an 8-game pro set until the final, which will be the best two out of three sets with a third set tiebreaker.
There will not be any doubles consolation draw.
What's at Stake
The winners of each draw from each of the eight ITA regional championships from around the country will automatically earn an invitation to the ITA Cup, which will be played Oct. 16-19 in Rome, Georgia.
Should the winner of a regional, decline the invitational, the runner-up would be the first considered.
Eight additional berths will be granted for each draw at the national tournament with four of those being selected at large from the pool of the eight regional finalists while four others will be selected from the pool of regional quarterfinalists.
Complete section criteria
can be found here.
Who's Playing
The Maverick men have eight players in the singles draw, all of whom will also play in the doubles draw. The CMU women have six players in the singles draw and will field three doubles partnerships.
All of CMU's entries, along with their 2025 fall season records to date and their first round opposition can be listed below.
Men's Singles Lineup (2025 Fall Season Record/Round of 64 Opponent)
Emil Hultman (6-0/Marcos Alogo-Piqueras, Point Loma Nazarene)
Luke Burriesci (3-3/#4 Stanislas Noel, Point Loma Nazarene)
#5
William Leschig (3-2/Kian Azadi, Biola)
Romain Payan (5-1/Joan Crespo, Azusa Pacific)
#7
Henry Scheck (2-4/Duarte Brito, Menlo)
Gavin Hutter (4-2/#3 Alejandro Flores Monteverde, Biola)
Jamison Pfingston (0-0/Driss Sedrati, Westmont)
Diogo Manzano (2-4/Leo Bormann, Point Loma Nazarene)
Men's Doubles Lineup (2025 Fall Season Record/Round of 32 Opponents)
Hultman/Manzano (2-2/Henry Riccioni-Brown & Erkin Tootoonchi Moghadam, Menlo)
Burriesci/Hutter (2-2/Jd Drake & Zachary Steinberg, Westmont)
Payan/Pfingston (4-1/Jon Ball & Arjun Sivakumar, Westmont)
Leschig/Scheck (3-1/Guillermo Diaz Rocha/Michael Marci, Azusa Pacific)
Women's Singles Lineup (2025 Fall Season Record/Round of 64 Opponent)
Delia Maier (4-1/Sofia Acuna, Dominican)
Sophie Hartman (5-0/Emma Yu, Stanislaus State)
Devyn Rodriguez (5-1/Lauren Gee, Westmont)
Catalina Ballon (5-2/Halle Faherty, Fresno Pacific)
Valentina Gonzalez (4-1/Malia Mitchell, Fresno Pacific)
Jade Brilhante (3-3/Kimberly Tran, Azusa Pacific)
Women's Doubles Lineup (2025 Fall Season Record/Round of 32 Opponents)
Ballon/Maier (4-1/Lorenza Foster-Simbulan & Maria Gavrilov, Dominican)
Gonzalez/Hartman (6-0/Gloria Jovic & Ombeline Robilliart, Menlo)
Brilhante/Rodriguez (3-1/Livia Harper & Yousra Hidass, Menlo)
Seeded Mavs
Two Maverick men's seniors in
William Leschig and
Henry Scheck have earned seeds in this week's singles tournament. Leschig is seeded fifth while Scheck is seeded seventh. Eight out of the 64 men in the field were seeded and will not be able to face each other until at least the quarterfinal round.
Last Time Out (Men)
The Maverick men last played on Sept. 12 and 13 at the Washburn Invitational in Topeka, Kansas.
Emil Hultman and
Romain Payan both went 3-0 in singles play over the weekend to lead the Mavericks' efforts in the various draws. Payan and
Jamison Pfingston also won both of their doubles matches over the weekend.
Full recaps from both days can be seen at these links:
DAY 1 | DAY 2.
The Mavs had a winning 11-10 record as a team in singles and were 4-4 in doubles throughout the tournament.
A listing of all the
Mavs' results can be found here.
Last Time Out (Women)
While the Maverick men were playing in their individual style tournament, the Maverick women were in Pueblo, Colorado for a series of three duals on the same days.
The Mavs went 2-1 as a team
defeating CSU Pueblo, 7-0, and Fort Hays State, 6-1, on Friday, Sept. 12. The Mavs then
dropped a 4-3 decision to Colorado College on Saturday, Sept. 13.
The Mavs were a combined 14-4 in singles matches and went 7-2 in doubles play throughout the weekend.
Freshman
Valentina Gonzalez went 3-0 at No. 3 singles while fellow freshman
Sophie Hartman had the same record at No. 6. They also went 3-0 as a No. 3 doubles partnership.
Delia Meier was also 3-0 at No. 5 singles while Deveny Rodriguez went 2-1 at No. 1 singles while partnering for a pair of doubles wins alongside
Jade Brilhante in the top flight.
Milestone Victories
The Mavs' wins over CSU Pueblo and Fort Hays State were the 299
th and 300
th women's dual meet wins for 21
st year head coach
Dan MacDonald, who was not there to personally celebrate the milestone. He was with the Maverick men as long-time assistant coach
David Smith guided the Maverick women that weekend, a semi-regular situation when the Maverick squads are in different locations.
MacDonald now has a 300-236 record with the CMU women. He is 227-252 (.474) with the Maverick men.
A look back to last year
Now Maverick seniors
William Leschig and
Henry Scheck won their first three doubles matches at last year's ITA West Regional Championships and advanced to the semifinal round.
Emil Hultman also advanced to the consolation final in singles.
Diogo Manzano and
Romain Payan also return after winning a first round singles match last year.
Jade Brilhante and
Devyn Rodriguez won their opening round doubles match while Rodriguez and 2024-25 senior
Makenna Livingston were victorious in their opening singles matches.
All of CMU's results from last year can be seen at these links:
MEN | WOMEN
The full draws from last year's tournament
can be seen here.
Past Champions
The Mavericks have had had two doubles teams and one singles ITA Fall Regional Champions in their program's history. Jordan Lynden won the 2013 men's singles title in the South Central while Jordan Chomko and Nick Provenza won the 2008 doubles title when CMU competed in the Central region.
The women's tandem of Kate Lowder and Victoria Sargent won the Central Region doubles title in 2009.
Colorado Mesa turns 100
The CMU Century Celebration stands as the cornerstone of Colorado Mesa University's year-long centennial celebration. This ambitious initiative unites our community in honoring a rich heritage while boldly envisioning the next hundred years of academic excellence.
Led by the Steering Committee and six specialized sub-committees, we're orchestrating a transformative experience that will resonate through generations. Each committee brings unique expertise to create an unforgettable commemoration of our past, present and future.
To learn more about Colorado Mesa's 100-year celebration, visit
cmucentury.com.
Up Next
Unless any Mavericks qualify for the ITA Cup, this week's tournament will wrap up CMU's brief, but jam-packed month of September and 2025 fall competitive schedule.
The Mavs' spring season schedule has not yet been set but typically begins in early February and will be posted on
www.cmumavericks.com.
