Christopher Abacan earned his third letter with the Rutgers-Camden tennis program during the 2024-25 scholastic year. He has competed in 24 singles matches and 26 doubles matches over his career.
Academics: Member of the Rutgers-Camden Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the 2022 Fall, 2024 Fall and 2025 Spring semesters.
Tennis Spring 2025: Posted a singles mark of 0-4 at the third flight…Went 0-4 in doubles teaming with John Brady, including 0-3 at the second spot and 0-1 at third doubles…In a match against Neumann (March 28), lost his singles match, 0-6, 0-6, and dropped a match at third doubles, 5-7…Dropped doubles matches at Salisbury (March 29) and against both SUNY-Oneonta and The College of New Jersey on April 19, all by 0-6 scores…In his singles match against Salisbury, lost by a 0-6, 1-6 score…Dropped both singles matches in the Oneonta/TCNJ WIAC matches by 0-6, 0-6 scores.
Tennis Fall 2024: Posted a 0-1 record at fifth singles…Went 0-3 in doubles (0-1 at second doubles with John Brady and 0-2 at third doubles with Julian Pinder)…Lost at third doubles (0-6) against Division II Kutztown (Sept. 21)…Lost at third doubles (3-6) against Scranton (Sept. 29)…Played both singles and doubles at York (Oct. 12), dropping a 2-6, 0-6 fifth singles match and a 1-6 second doubles match.
Tennis Spring 2024: Played everywhere from second to fourth singles, going 1-8 during the spring semester (0-6 at second singles, 0-2 at third singles and 1-0 at fourth singles)…Teamed with Thanh Ngo at second doubles throughout the spring season (going 0-8) before combining with Matthew Tepfer to win a match at third doubles…Won both of his matches in the final competition of the season, at Lehman on April 26, earning a 6-1, 6-1 win at fourth singles and an 8-1 win at third doubles…Lost matches at second singles against Eastern (March 22, 0-6, 1-6), The College of New Jersey (March 24, 0-6, 0-6), Arcadia (March 30, 1-6, 0-6), King’s (April 7, 0-6, 1-6), Neumann (April 12, 0-6, 1-6) and Ramapo (April 20, 1-6, 0-6)…Lost at third singles against Elizabethtown (Apil 7, 1-6, 1-6) and SUNY-Oneonta (April 19, 0-6, 0-6)…Playing second doubles for eight of his nine matches, suffered losses against Eastern (3-8), TCNJ (0-8), Arcadia (1-8), Elizabethtown (2-8), King’s (0-8), Neumann (1-8), SUNY Oneonta (0-8) and Ramapo (1-8).
Tennis Fall 2023: In the Scarlet Raptors’ lone fall match at Penn State-Brandywine (Sept; 17) lost at fifth singles (3-6, 0-6) and at third doubles (2-8) with Tyrone King.
Tennis Spring 2023: Posted a 0-9 singles record (0-6 second singles and 0-3 third singles) and a 0-9 doubles record (0-2 first doubles and 0-7 second doubles)…Went 0-4 in both singles and doubles in New Jersey Athletic Conference play…Lost a close match at third singles against Neumann University (April 2) by a score of 6-7 (4-7), 1-6…Dropped another close match against Elizabethtown on April 16, this time at second doubles, 5-7, 1-6…His closest doubles matches came in the second spot, teaming with Jojo Nguyen, against Neumann (4-8) and against Arcadia (5-8 on April 10).
Tennis Fall 2022: Posted a 1-1 record in both singles and doubles during the brief fall season…In a match at Cabrini University (Sept. 23), earned a win at third singles (6-4, 2-6, 8-4) and teamed with Jojo Nguyen for an 8-3 win at second doubles…Against York College of Pennsylvania (Oct. 15), lost at fourth singles (0-6, 1-6) and at second doubles with Jojo Nguyen (2-8).
High School: Captured three varsity letters apiece in bowling and tennis at Collingswood High School…Played tennis for Coach Wayne Peiffer…Two-year team captain…Compiled a 3.6 GPA…Graduated from Collingswood High School in 2022…
Personal: Born January 29, 2004…Nicknamed “Topher”…Hobbies include lifting, writing poetry and rollerblading…Sister Christine was a Scarlet Raptor letterwinner with the women’s tennis team from 2013-17…Member of the Rutgers-Camden Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC)…Dual Political Science and Philosophy major at Rutgers-Camden who plans to attend law school…Christopher is the son of Divina and Arturo Abacan of Collingswood.
