Southern Championship

Eight teams competing in the 2012 USTA Tennis on Campus Southern Championship in Auburn, Ala. have earned bids to the 2012 USTA Tennis on Campus National Championship.

North Carolina’s "A" team won the championship by defeating Alabama. North Carolina’s "B" team defeated Elon in the Non-BCS division but did not receive a national bid because only one team can receive a bid from the same college or university.

The following teams received national bids based on their finish in the competition:

• North Carolina: champion. Captain: Travis Sandman
• Alabama: finalist. Captain: JP McLemore
• Tulane: third. Captain: Sally Ness
• LSU: fourth. Captain: Nicolas Lucidi
• Duke earned a bid by finishing second in the 2011 Tennis On Campus Fall Invitational Tournament in Hilton Head Island, S.C. It also finished fifth in this championship. Captain: Stephanie Dudzinski
• Davidson: sixth. Captain: Mark Angel
• Elon: second in Non-BCS division. Captain: Ian MacInnes

Additional bid
• University of South Carolina earned a bid by being named USTA Southern Tennis on Campus Club of the Year. Captain: Sukhi Guram

The Southern tournament hosted 48 club teams and about 380 players from throughout the nine USTA Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. One team – Texas A & M Texarkana – competed because it is located in a small portion of Texas that in the Southern Section.