NJCAA Tennis Championships

What are the NJCAA Tennis Championships?

The NJCAA Tennis Championships are the national championships of the National Junior College Athletic Association in men's and women's tennis, held each May. The team and individual titles are decided together: in the ITA's description of the 2026 women's event, players compete in flighted draws, with teams earning points toward a team total based on their players' finish in each flighted draw.^[4] The ITA's 2026 reports record champions at six singles and three doubles positions.^[5] A team title can therefore be won without a team champion in every flight: Pratt's 2026 men's title came from three flight wins and three runner-up finishes, a 19-6 record across the event.^[3] This page covers the Division I championships.

Who organizes them?

The National Junior College Athletic Association stages the championships for its member two-year colleges. The Intercollegiate Tennis Association, which describes itself as the governing body of college tennis and lists junior and community colleges among the levels it oversees, links to the championship schedules and reports the results.^[1][2] The NJCAA's own championship and archive pages could not be retrieved in readable form, and its published record books could not be fetched, so the results on this page rest on the ITA's reports, a single secondary source.

When and where are they held?

The men's and women's championships are separate five-day events in May at different sites. In 2026 the ITA listed the Division I women's championship for May 2–6 at the Palmetto Tennis Center in Sumter, South Carolina, and the men's for May 11–15 at the Collin College Tennis Facility.^[1][4] Recent women's championships were played in Tucson, Arizona, in 2022 and in Tyler, Texas, in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and recent men's championships in Tyler, McKinney and Plano, Texas, and Florence, South Carolina.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][14]}

Pool / Format gives the Division I men's (M) and women's (W) team champions and Host cities the championship sites, as reported by the ITA.^[3][5][6][7] 2022 sites and dates from the ITA's 2022 championships listing.^[14] Seasons before 2022 and the 2027 sites are not shown; no NJCAA or ITA record of them could be retrieved.

Since when do they exist?

The NJCAA record books that carry the championship's history could not be retrieved, so no founding year is given here. The ITA's reports point to earlier editions: its 2026 report called Pratt's win its first Division I men's title in 65 years, and its 2025 report referred to Odessa's men's title of 1979.^[3][6]

How do teams and players qualify?

Entry is through NJCAA member colleges; the NJCAA's current qualification rules for the championship could not be retrieved from its own site. The ITA's preview of the 2026 women's event noted that Hillsborough entered as the defending champion and top-ranked team, followed on the ITA's April 16 rankings by Tyler, Cowley, Collin and St. Petersburg.^[4]

Why do they matter?

They decide the NJCAA's national titles in two-year college tennis, and the ITA, which reports that it oversees activities involving nearly 20,000 varsity college student-athletes, covers them alongside the NCAA and NAIA championships.^[2] Team titles are decided on points across every flight; in 2026 Pratt won the men's title with 35 points to Tyler's 34.5.^[3]

Who competes?

Men's and women's teams from NJCAA member two-year colleges. The 2026 men's standings, as reported by the ITA, ran Pratt 35, Tyler 34.5, Eastern Florida State 26.5, Cowley 25 and Seward 20.^[3] The 2026 women's final standings, as reported by the ITA, had Hillsborough first with 45 points and Cowley second with 32, followed by Collin, St. Petersburg and Barton.^[5] In the 2025 men's championship Tyler scored 42 points to Barton's 33, and in the 2025 women's championship Hillsborough scored 52 to Cowley's 39.^[6][7] In 2024 Tyler edged Cowley 46 points to 44 for the men's title, and in 2023 Cowley beat Tyler 52 to 47 for the men's title while Hillsborough beat Cowley 46 to 43 for the women's.^[8][10][11] The ITA reported that Tyler won the 2022 women's title by one point over Hillsborough, its second consecutive women's title, and that Seward County won the 2022 men's title with 45 points to Cowley's 43.^[12][13] See also the NCAA Tennis Championships.