BYU tennis does not need a fake top-10 list. It needs a file Cougar fans can use.
The official roster and schedule feeds give us 19 players across the men’s and women’s teams, 50 spring event rows and two completely different roster builds. The men’s side is older and heavy on Utah ties. The women’s side is smaller, younger and assembled from several countries and college stops.
That is enough to make both programs easier to follow without pretending a roster page is a lineup card. Here is the useful part of the file.
One sport, two roster shapes
The men’s roster lists 11 players: three seniors, four juniors, one sophomore and three freshmen. Seven of the 11 are juniors or seniors.
The women’s roster lists eight players. Six are freshmen or sophomores, including redshirt sophomore Chelsea Bluestein. Kendall Kovick is the only senior, and captain Gracie Levelston is the only junior.
Put the teams together and BYU has six freshmen, five juniors, four seniors and four players in the sophomore band if Bluestein’s redshirt classification is included. That combined count is tidy. The individual stories are not.
An older men’s roster should have more practiced answers for road weekends and close dual matches. It also has fewer class transitions to absorb at once. The women’s team had to get useful tennis from a group in which three freshmen made up more than a third of the roster.
Class year still has limits. It does not tell us singles order, doubles pairings, health or who played the biggest points. BYU’s public roster feed does not assign lineup slots, so neither will we. The honest offseason question is how much of each roster returns intact when the next official list arrives.
The men’s map starts in Utah
Four of the 11 men list Utah hometowns. Redd Owen and Hardy Owen are both from Sandy. TJ Wells is from Alpine, and freshman Caden Hasler is from Pleasant Grove.
California and Florida account for two players each. Alabama, Massachusetts and Minnesota supply one apiece. The result is a roster with a clear local base but no single-state lock on the team.
The class distribution is more interesting than the map. Redd Owen, Adam Chodur and Alex Edmonston form the senior group. Tygen Goldammer, Wells, Otto Schreiner and David Duong make up a four-player junior block.
That gives BYU seven upperclassmen before the three freshmen enter the count. Hasler, Brennon Chow and Yubel Ubri are not roster decoration, though. On an 11-player team, three freshmen represent 27 percent of the available names. Every retention and development decision carries weight because there is no football-sized bench to hide it.
The women’s roster was built across borders and portals
The women’s roster has two players from Utah and two from Florida. The other four hometown lines reach Nevada, Taiwan, Singapore and Egypt.
Freshmen Sage Bergeson and Bella Lewis are the Utah pair. Freshman Karina Mohamed comes from Alexandria, Egypt. Sophomores Yuyun Chen and Sue Yan Tan list Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Singapore.
The official roster also names previous colleges for four players. Bluestein came through Iowa, Kovick through West Virginia, Chen through Liberty and Levelston through UCF. That is half the roster with a listed college stop before BYU.
There is a practical implication here. This was not an eight-player group recruited through one pipeline or developed on one timetable. Coaches had to blend three freshmen with four players carrying previous-college experience and Tan’s sophomore season. Fans should expect the next roster update to matter more than a broad label such as “young team” suggests.
The small roster also changes the margin for error. One absence on an eight-player team removes 12.5 percent of the listed group. That does not predict results, but it explains why continuity and availability matter so much in tennis.
Fifty spring rows do not all mean the same thing
The schedule files require a careful read.
BYU’s men’s schedule contains 29 rows: seven fall tournament or individual-championship entries and 22 spring dual-match rows. The spring map includes seven home, 12 away and three neutral entries. Eight are flagged as conference matches, split evenly between Provo and the road.
That men’s conference run was compact. Arizona and Oklahoma State came to Provo in mid-March. UCF followed on the road, then Texas Tech visited. The final four sent BYU to TCU and Baylor, brought Arizona State to Provo and finished at Utah.
The women’s schedule has 34 rows: six fall tournament entries and 28 spring rows. Ten spring events are home, 12 away and six neutral. The official feed flags 15 conference rows, but two of those are neutral Big 12 tournament entries against Utah and UCF in Orlando. That distinction matters if you are counting the regular-season league slate rather than every conference-tagged event.
The women also had a useful home block before conference travel took over. Washington State, Denver, Weber State and Colorado State came to the Indoor Tennis Courts across two February weekends. The Big 12 home list later included Cincinnati, West Virginia, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Arizona State and Arizona.
Combined, the teams produced 50 spring event rows and 17 home rows. That is the number to remember if you want a sense of the season’s local footprint. It is not a combined win-loss record, and it is not proof that every event had the same format or stakes.
The current schedule CSVs preserve dates, opponents, sites and conference flags, but their score fields are blank. We will not reverse-engineer records from headline snippets or call every completed row a win or loss. The men’s results page and women’s results page remain source trackers until the committed data carries trustworthy scores.
What to watch when BYU posts the next lists
The men’s question is turnover. Seven upperclassmen gave the 2025-26 roster its center of gravity, and three seniors sat at the front of that transition. The next official roster will tell us whether the four-player junior block becomes the new spine and how much room opens for the freshman group.
The women’s question is continuity. Six of eight players were below junior status, and four arrived with previous-college lines. If that group stays together, BYU can carry far more shared experience into the next season than the word “young” captures.
Both programs also deserve better data follow-through. Scores, singles order and doubles pairings would turn these pages from schedule maps into stronger season records. Until BYU’s public feeds expose those facts cleanly, we will keep the claims narrower than the curiosity.
Start at the men’s tennis hub or women’s tennis hub. The all-sports data watch shows where every BYU roster and schedule file stands, and the Olympic sports roster guide connects tennis to the rest of the department.
Sources and further reading
- Official BYU men’s tennis team page
- Official BYU men’s roster API, roster ID 1619
- Official BYU men’s schedule API, schedule ID 1517
- Official BYU women’s tennis team page
- Official BYU women’s roster API, roster ID 1618
- Official BYU women’s schedule API, schedule ID 1516
- BYU Sport Nuts men’s tennis roster
- BYU Sport Nuts women’s tennis roster
