The College of New Jersey’s women’s tennis team clinched its 24th consecutive New Jersey Athletic Conference Women’s Tennis championship with a pair of 9-0 victories over both Kean and William Paterson on October 1. With the wins, the Lions finished the 2006 fall season with a perfect 5-0 mark. TCNJ remains unbeaten all-time in NJAC women’s tennis play with 116 straight conference victories dating back to the fall of 1982.

TCNJ captured the 2006 title by posting five conference victories in a span of 18 days. The Lions opened their season with a 9-0 road win at Rutgers-Newark on September 13. They next topped conference rival Richard Stockton 8-1 on September 20, before topping Ramapo by a score of 9-0 on September 27. The Lions clinched the crown with a 9-0 blanking of Kean on October 1, and wrapped up another perfect NJAC season with a 9-0 win over William Paterson just three hours later. 

TCNJ dropped just on individual singles match to finish the fall season with a 29-1 mark. They also posted a perfect 15-0 record in NJAC doubles play.

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 116 straight victories over the course of 24 seasons. The streak has spanned 25 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 34-0 in league action.