The College of New Jersey’s women’s tennis team clinched its 23rd consecutive New Jersey Athletic Conference Women’s Tennis championship with a 9-0 victory over Kean on September 30. With the win, the Lions finished the 2005 fall season with a perfect 5-0 mark, having won all five of their NJAC matches by identical 9-0 scores. TCNJ remains unbeaten all-time in NJAC women’s tennis play with 111 straight conference victories dating back to the fall of 1982.

TCNJ captured the 2005 title by posting five conference victories in a span of 16 days. The Lions opened their season with a 9-0 win over Rutgers-Newark on September 14. They next topped conference rivals Ramapo and William Paterson by identical 9-0 scores on the same day of September 17. TCNJ then downed Richard Stockton 9-0 on September 21, before clinching the title with a 9-0 win over Kean on September 30. 

Remarkably, TCNJ did not drop a single individual or doubles match during its NJAC campaign, posting 30-0 and 15-0 records respectively in individual conference singles and doubles play. In addition, the Lions dropped only one set in singles play during the season and captured all 18 pro sets in their doubles matches.  

Since women’s tennis was introduced as a conference sport in the fall of 1982, the Lions have never lost a league match – a streak of 111 straight victories over the course of 23 seasons. The streak has spanned 24 years and three different head coaches at the helm of the TCNJ program. The streak started in 1982 with Brenda Campbell as the Lions’ head coach, a role she handled until her retirement as women’s tennis coach in the summer of 1995. Under Campbell, the Lions compiled a 68-0 record in NJAC play. From 1995 through the 2000 season, Tricia Udicious was the head coach and guided the Lions to 14-0 record. Under current head coach, Scott Dicheck, the Lions are now 29-0 in league action.

The record for most conference wins in a sport is held by Kalamazoo College’s (MI) men’s tennis team, which from 1963 to 2002 won 241 consecutive Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) matches and 66 conference championships during that time frame.