Men's Tennis

There's no question that Rogerio Ribeiro brings a lot to the table, returning for his third year as a member of the Tennessee Tech's men's tennis coaching staff in 2019. Ribeiro will serve as an assistant coach for the 2018-19 season.

Since Ribeiro has been part of the Golden Eagle ranks, Tech tennis has continued to flourish as one of the top teams in the Ohio Valley Conference and the southeast region as a whole. In his two years involved with the program, Tech has won one regular-season OVC championship, two OVC Tournament titles and two trips to the NCAA Tournament. 

The 26-year-old Ribeiro, a native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, put together an amazing career while playing at ETSU.

But the NCAA Doubles Tournament run Ribeiro had with partner David Biosca stands as a highlight. Claiming the first victory by an ETSU doubles duo in the NCAA Tournament, the pair defeated New Mexico's Hayden Sabatka and Bart Van Leijsen 6-4 and 6-4, then knocked off the nation's top-ranked pair in Florida's Diego Hidalgo and Gordon Watson 6-4 and 7-5.

That victory earned All-American nods for the ETSU duo, becoming the third and fourth tennis student-athletes in program history to achieve that honor.

Ribeiro's run continued as the ETSU pair defeated North Carolina's Jack Murray and Brayden Schnurr 6-2 and 7-6 (7) to advance to the tournament semifinals, before falling to Texas A&M's Arthur Rinderknech and Jackson Withrow 6-2, 5-7 and 1-0 (7) to end their run.

Last season, the duo finished 14-7, including a 4-1 record against nationally ranked foes.

Ribeiro was named the 2016 Southern Conference tournament's Most Outstanding Player after going 16-5 in the regular season and a perfect 3-0 mark in the conference tournament – all three victories claiming wins for the Buccaneers.

Ribeiro was also named to the All-SoCon First Team in both singles and doubles.

In 2014-15, Ribeiro won 13 singles matches and had a 12-8 doubles record with Biosca, including a 5-1 mark in the SoCon. He was named to the All-SoCon first team in singles and doubles, as well as named to the Spring Academic All-SoCon list as well as the SoCon Honor Roll.

Ribeiro came off of a medical redshirt in 2013-14, suffering a season-ending injury in the fall tournament season. But he did complete a win over No. 4 ranked Ryan Lipman from Vanderbilt before getting sidelined.

During his sophomore campaign in 2012-13, Ribeiro had a 29-12 singles mark, including an 8-0 record in the Atlantic Sun Conference. He was 16-14 in doubles, 8-0 in the A-Sun. He was named to the A-Sun first team in singles and second team in doubles.

During his freshman season, Ribeiro went 21-9 in singles and 12-8 in doubles, going 8-1 with partner Jesus Bandres. He was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman team, the A-Sun second team in singles and doubles and to the conference's all-academic team.

Ribeiro graduated from East Tennessee State in the spring of 2016 with a bachelor's degree in finance.