PRINCETON, N.J. — Following yet another stellar season of Ivy League men's tennis, the Ivy League announced the All-Ivy Teams and major award winners on Thursday afternoon.

Columbia's Michael Zheng earned Ivy League Player of the Year honors following a historic season that included winning the NCAA singles national title back in November. Zheng became Columbia's first NCAA singles champion of the modern era and is the first men's singles champion from an Ivy League school since Yale's Lucien Williams won a title in 1922. Throughout the spring season, Zheng was consistently ranked as the top-ranked singles player in the ITA national rankings, going 6-0 at the number one singles spot and 4-0 in doubles during Ivy League play. Overall, Zheng went 34-4 in singles play during the year and 20-12 in doubles matches on the year, playing primarily with Nicolas Kotzen.

Harvard’s first-year standout, Benjamin Privara, was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Playing in the number two singles spot for the entire spring season, Privara went 3-2 in Ivy League matches and 11-12 overall. He went 13-5 in doubles during the year, going 6-3 at first doubles playing with Masato Perera and 6-1 at second doubles with Melchior Delloye.

Coach Howard Endelman and his Columbia Lions coaching staff won the 2025 Ivy League Coaching Staff of the Year award for the third consecutive year. The Lions went 7-0 in Ivy League play and won their first outright championship since 2019 after capturing a share of it with Harvard last season. The Lions, who finished the year 17-4 overall and 7-0 in Ivy League matches, were ranked ninth in the most recent ITA Poll and reached as high as sixth earlier in the season.

Zheng was one of four unanimous selections to the All-Ivy Singles First Team, the other three being Columbia teammate Nicolas Kotzen, Cornell’s Radu Papoe, and Harvard’s Daniel Milavsky. Princeton joined Columbia with two First Team All-Ivy Singles honorees with Paul Inchauspe and Top Nidunjianzan rounding out the team.

Zheng and Kotzen, with their 4-0 Ivy League record, was one of two doubles teams to be unanimously selected to the All-Ivy Doubles First Team, the other being Harvard’s Milavsky and David Lins, who went 16-1 on the season and 5-1 in Ivy League. The final doubles pairing to be selected to the All-Ivy First Team was Princeton’s Inchauspe and Filippos Astreinidis, who went 20-10 on the year and 4-1 against Ivy League opponents.

Additionally, one student-athlete from each institution was recognized for their commitment in the classroom and on the court as members of the 2024-25 Ivy League Men's Tennis Academic All-Ivy team. Brown’s Alex Koong, Columbia's Jayden Templeman, Cornell’s Radu Papoe, Dartmouth's Miles Groom, Harvard’s Valdemar Pape, Penn's Manfredi Graziani, Princeton’s Ellis Short and Yale's Luke Neal were each named to the team.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Michael Zheng, Columbia*

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Benjamin Privara, Harvard

COACHING STAFF OF THE YEAR
Columbia*

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY SINGLES
Michael Zheng, Columbia*
Nicolas Kotzen, Columbia*
Radu Papoe, Cornell*
Daniel Milavsky, Harvard*
Paul Inchauspe, Princeton
Top Nidunjianzan, Princeton

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY DOUBLES
Michael Zheng/Nicolas Kotzen, Columbia*
Daniel Milavsky/David Lins, Harvard*
Paul Inchauspe/Filippos Astreinidis, Princeton

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY SINGLES
Alex Finkelstein, Brown
Hugo Hashimoto, Columbia
Max Westphal, Columbia
Adit Sinha, Cornell
Manfredi Graziani, Penn
Ellis Short, Princeton

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY DOUBLES
Sachin Palta/Max Westphal, Columbia
Eric Verdes/Rushil Khosla, Cornell
Top Nidunjianzan/Ellis Short, Princeton

HONORABLE MENTION
Hikaru Takeda, Dartmouth
Benjamin Privara, Harvard
Rohan Murali, Harvard
Valdemar Pape, Harvard
Noah Hernandez/Lukas Phimvongsa, Brown
Adit Sinha/Jack McCarthy, Cornell
Radu Papoe/Nathan Mao, Cornell

* Unanimous selection