BATON ROUGE, La. \u2013 Nikolas Stoot will be joining the LSU Men\u2019s Tennis team to begin his collegiate tennis career as a freshman member of the team announced by head coach Danny Bryan on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to have Nik join us at LSU. He\u2019s become one of the top players in the country over the last couple of years,\u201d said head coach Danny Bryan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love his mindset \u2014 he\u2019s positive, works hard, super competitive, and wants to be great. Even though he\u2019s already very accomplished, there\u2019s still a lot of room for him to improve. He\u2019s going to thrive on a team and will love the big college matches.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Miami, Florida native is the No. 6 recruit in the country for the 2026 class. He is currently ranked at an impressive No. 8 in the country in the Boys\u2019 18s and has a 12.62 UTR (Universal Tennis Rating).<\/p>\n
Just last week, he gained his first ATP point after reaching the quarterfinals at the M15 in Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n
In junior competition, he went on to win the FILA Easter Bowl with a dominating 6-4, 6-2 final score as well as reached the semi-finals of the Miami Racket Club Open.<\/p>\n
For more updates, follow @LSUTennis on Instagram, Facebook, and X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE, La. \u2013 Nikolas Stoot will be joining the LSU Men\u2019s Tennis team to begin his collegiate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,43753,43754,701,6385,12558,4463,5924,70867,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-293972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-geaux-tigers","11":"tag-homepage-feature-headline","12":"tag-latest-news","13":"tag-louisiana","14":"tag-louisiana-state-university","15":"tag-lsu","16":"tag-lsu-tigers","17":"tag-men-s-tennis","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}