Washburn Lady Blues tennis player Trang Le Nguyen was the South Central Regional winner of the ITA/Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award given out prior to the beginning of NCAA national tennis tournament. Le Nguyen, who picked up her second MIAA...

Next year, the Washburn Ichabods men's tennis team will see major changes, as five of its six current players are seniors. Adam Rens, Branden Joost, and Ryan Ward, all seniors, make up the American half of the team, and they shared their thoughts about th...

Washburn men's and women's tennis were both in the MIAA Tennis Tournament Championship on Sunday. And although only one of them came out victorious, neither team is hanging their head. After losing to Northwest Missouri State during MIAA regular season pl...

If sports were puzzle pieces, Dave Alden has tried to fit almost all of them. But one of the last ones he tried, tennis, was the piece that finally fit. Washburn men's and women's tennis head coach Dave Alden grew up around athletics. With a dad that w...

As it played a large role early in her life, it wasn't tough for Trang Le Nyugen to think she might stay interested in tennis. But, she never expected it would help bring her to America. Le Nyugen, the MIAA's Most Valuable Player last season, is expect...

By: Richard Kelly

MIAA conference play began for Washburn men's and women's tennis this past Wednesday and all the recent tennis play seems to have finally paid off. Beginning against Southwest Baptist in a home match played indoors at Wood Valley Tennis Center, Dave Al...

As they returned from their slew of matches, it wasn't that Dave Alden was necessarily disappointed in his teams' performances, but a Spring Break full of tennis sure gave them all they could handle. After a long, enduring trip that gave both Washburn men...

By: Richard Kelly

With the season beginning to heat up, the Washburn men's and women's tennis teams will find themselves in a grueling stretch beginning tomorrow. After picking up four out of five victories combined in the last week, each team will likely play six match...

From March 4-6, both the men's and women's Washburn University tennis teams must run the gauntlet of facing three straight days of matches at home, with the men's team playing an additional match March 7. Both teams are doing everything they can to prepar...

By: Richard Kelly

Men's and women's tennis coach Dave Alden may only be in his second season at Washburn, but expectations are high as the spring season begins....