Ben Roeser enters his fourth season as Lipscomb head coach prior to the 2025-26 season and is the fifth head men’s tennis coach in Lipscomb’s Division I era.
LIPSCOMB HEAD COACHING CAREER
Since his arrival in Nashville in 2023, he has led the Bisons to three straight ASUN Tournament appearances and secured back-to-back 11-win seasons in 2024 and 2025.
With the Bisons, he has tallied a 28-38 mark in his three seasons at the helm and three appearances in the ASUN Tournament. Including his one season as head men’s and women’s coach at Wright State, he has amassed 33 wins.
He has coached three All-ASUN selections, including Lipscomb’s first ASUN Freshman of the Year in Giovanni Ciocca in 2025.
YEAR-BY-YEAR IN NASHVILLE
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.
After posting a 6-15 record in his first season in 2023, Roeser turned it around quickly with an 11-12 mark in 2024 to match the single-season Division I record in wins.
PRIOR TO THE MUSIC CITY
Roeser comes to Nashville with experience as a player, an instructor, and a coach at the club level and in NCAA Division II competition, and at the NCAA Division I level in both the Horizon League and the ACC.
He started his coaching career at Wright State University from 2017-19, serving as an assistant coach for both the men’s and women’s squads. Prior to the 2020 season, he was elevated to head coach. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the shutdown of the season and eventually the program that summer.
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.
He spent the 2021 and 2022 seasons serving as an assistant women’s tennis coach at Louisville and Georgia Tech, respectively.
With the Yellowjackets, he worked under two-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 advanced to the Round of 32.
HIGH SCHOOL/PERSONAL
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 Division II Tournament.
A member of the Waynesville High School Hall of Fame, he was a three-time State Qualifier as he set the school record for most wins.
He earned a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in communication and recreation education from Ohio University in 2016.
