The Columbia University women’s tennis team has announced its schedule for the 2025-26 season. The team will play 11 home matches, with four of those against Ivy League opponents.
Columbia’s schedule includes eight teams that reached postseason competition in 2025. Among these are five teams that participated in the NCAA Tournament: North Carolina, Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU), Florida International University (FIU), Memphis, and Harvard.
Additionally, the Lions will face 11 programs that finished last season ranked in the top 75 of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) final rankings. These opponents include No. 4 North Carolina, No. 49 Charlotte, No. 55 Penn State, No. 57 Memphis, No. 61 FIU, No. 62 Purdue, No. 68 Michigan State, No. 69 Yale, No. 73 Harvard, No. 74 Princeton, and No. 75 Marshall.
The season begins on January 19 with a home match against LIU at the Philip & Cheryl Milstein Family Tennis Center. On January 24 and January 25, Columbia travels to Chapel Hill to face North Carolina and then either Penn State or Charlotte before returning home to host Purdue on January 31.
In February, Columbia will compete at the ECAC Championships from February 6-8 in Princeton, New Jersey. Home matches follow against Michigan State on February 14 and FDU on February 25 before an away contest at Memphis on February 28.
The non-conference schedule wraps up with a doubleheader versus Marshall and Wagner at home on February 6 and a home match against NJIT on February 8; later that month they travel to Miami to play FIU.
Ivy League competition opens with four consecutive home games: Cornell visits on February 28 at noon; Brown follows April 4; Yale plays April 5; and Penn arrives April 10—all set for a first serve at one o’clock.
To finish out the regular season, Columbia heads out for away matches against Princeton on April12 followed by Harvard (April18) and Dartmouth (April19).
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