The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
No. 2 Men’s Tennis earns three ITA Texas Region Awards
06.09.2026 | Men's Tennis
Sebastian Gorzny was named Senior Player of the Year, Bruce Berque was Coach of the Year, and Benni Becker was Assistant Coach of the Year.
Austin – Texas Men's Tennis earned three Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Texas Region Awards, the organization announced Tuesday. Sebastian Gorzny was named Senior Player of the Year, Bruce Berque was Coach of the Year, and Benni Becker was Assistant Coach of the Year. That trio will now move on to consideration for the national version of those awards.
Gorzny's selection marks the third time in the last four years a Longhorn has been Senior Player of the Year, following Micah Braswell in 2024 and Eliot Spizzirri in 2023.
This season, Gorzny, Berque and Becker led Texas to an NCAA National Runner-Up finish, a second-straight Final Four, the program's first ITA Indoors National Championship, and back-to-back sweeps of the SEC regular season and tournament titles.
An ITA All-American in singles, Gorzny finished ranked No. 2, which is the fourth-straight year Texas has had a top-two player, and he was the Most Outstanding Player of the ITA National Indoor Championships, and the Most Valuable Player of the SEC Championship, while also being named First Team All-SEC for the second-straight year.
Gorzny compiled a 26-8 overall record in singles, a 20-6 mark in dual matches, all at No. 1, and was 7-2 in the SEC. As part of that, he registered seven top-15 victories and 13 top-50 wins. He was also second on the team in overall clinches with seven.
With a No. 2 final ranking, Berque has guided Texas to be the only team in the nation to have finished in the top four of the final rankings in seven of the last eight years. The Longhorns earned a No. 3 ranking in 2025, No. 2 in 2024, No. 3 in 2023, finished No. 12 in an injury-plagued 2022 season, was No. 3 in 2021, No. 4 in 2020, and No. 1 in 2019 after winning the National Championship.
Texas finished the 2026 season as the NCAA National Runner-Up for the second time in three years and made their fourth-straight Final Four appearance (tied for most nationally). It was also their sixth Final Four in the last seven years, which is the most in the nation by two in that span.
It was also the fourth-straight year Texas has won its conference regular season championship and third-straight tournament title, going back to its last two year in the Big 12. Texas closed with a 29-7 record with the 29 victories matching the 2025 and 2019 teams for the most in a season dating back to 1975 when teams began playing shorter schedules.
