The United States Tennis Association has announced that Florida Gulf Coast men\u2019s tennis coach Josh Molino will serve as head coach of Team Florida at the 2026 Battle of the Sections.<\/p>\n
Molino will lead the Sunshine State squad of 16U and 18U boys players in the annual competition between the 17 different sections (similar to regions) across the United States. Each section team is composed of four 16u players and four 18u players.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTo represent the Florida section is truly an honor,\u201d Molino said of his appointment. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to be one of 17 coaches across the country selected for this opportunity. I can\u2019t wait to continue to grow the FGCU brand in front of the top recruits in the nation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The tournament, held this year on Aug. 1-5, is annually held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Similar to the collegiate dual match format, team matches have a total of seven points. A team match will be composed of four doubles matches and six singles matches, with the doubles counting as one team point and singles matches counting as one team point each. Participants will play a total of three singles and four doubles matches throughout the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Molino\u2019s appointment comes as part of a successful summer where he added\u00a0a pair of five-star recruits to his program\u00a0for the upcoming season, saw the Eagles named the\u00a0ITA Southeast Region Community Award winners\u00a0and had\u00a0CJ Smith named to the 2025-26 Allstate NACDA Spring Good Works Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States Tennis Association has announced that Florida Gulf Coast men\u2019s tennis coach Josh Molino will serve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-362286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}