Ben Roeser enters his fourth season as Lipscomb head coach prior to the 2025-26 season.
Posting a 28-38 record, Roeser has guided the Bisons to the ASUN Tournament in each of his first three seasons at the helm.
The 2025 season was a historic one for the Bisons and Roeser. They matched 11 wins from the 2024 season, missing the NCAA Division I record of 12 from 2004. They also matched their ASUN win total of five from the previous year and had back-to-back winning conference seasons for the first time in program history.
In addition, the freshmen tandem of Giovanni Ciocca and Oskar Szymczak was named to the All-Freshman Team, with Ciocca earning Lipscomb's first-ever Freshman of the Year honor.
In 2024, the Bisons boasted an 11-12 record, matching a program record for single-season victory.
Roeser comes to Nashville with experience as a player, an instructor, and a coach at the club level, in NCAA DII competition, and working at the NCAA DI level in both the Horizon League and the ACC.
Roeser began his collegiate coaching career at Wright State as a volunteer assistant before quickly being named men's and women's assistant coach in 2017. In addition to elevating the programs competitively, Roeser helped lead the recruiting of student-athletes who excelled academically with both the men's and the women's team on the ITA Academic Team list and 16 different student athletes named to the ITA Scholar Athlete list during that period.
On the heels of his success as an assistant, Roeser was elevated to the head coaching position in 2019-2020 and was serving in that role when the Covid pandemic forced the shutdown of the season. In the financial aftermath of the pandemic, like a number of other NCAA institutions, Wright State made the decision to discontinue its tennis program, and Roeser took that opportunity to expand his coaching horizons at two different schools in the ACC while waiting for his next chance to serve as a head coach.
During the 2021-22 season, Roeser worked as a volunteer assistant coach for the Georgia Tech women's tennis team under 2-time ACC Coach of the Year and 2008 U.S. Olympic Team's men's tennis coach, Rodney Harmon. As a part of that staff, he helped the team reach its ninth straight NCAA Tournament and the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament. Prior to that, in the 2021-22 season, Roeser worked as a volunteer assistant, as well, for the women's tennis program at fellow ACC member Louisville.
"In talking with the coaching staffs at all three places Coach Roeser has served, some common themes kept coming through. All three talked about his knowledge of and love for the game, his tactical and teaching ability, his competitiveness and drive, and his ability to relate to and to get the best out of student athletes with a variety of backgrounds and styles," said Hutcheson. "But above all of that, each of them talked about his character and the standards he has for himself and others and it's that combination of enthusiasm, expertise, competitiveness, and character that made him such a good fit for our program. I'm excited to work with him at Lipscomb and I'm looking forward to his helping to continue elevating our program in the future."
As a student-athlete himself, Roeser was a two-year letter winner on a Southern Indiana team that advanced to the Round of 32 in the NCAA DII Tournament before going on to earn a bachelor of liberal arts in communication and recreation education from Ohio University in 2016.
