DES MOINES, Iowa – The Drake University men's tennis squad is set to compete at the 2016 Saint Francis Health System ITA Men's All-American Championships beginning on Saturday at the University of Tulsa's Michael D. Case Tennis Center.

Tulsa hosts the annual tournament for the 12th consecutive year. Pre-qualifying singles play is slated to begin on Saturday, Oct. 1, while both singles and doubles qualifying play starts on Monday, Oct. 3. Main draw play for both singles and doubles will begin on Thursday, Oct. 6, with champions crowned on Monday, Oct. 10.

Junior Calum MacGeoch and sophomores Tom Hands and Ben Clark will begin play in pre-qualifying singles on Saturday, while sophomore Vinny Gillespie will compete in qualifying singles beginning on Monday. Gillespie and Hands are listed as alternates in the qualifying doubles which gets underway on Monday as well.

Last year, MacGeoch advanced to the second round of the pre-qualifying draw, while the other three fell in the first round.

Singles quarterfinalists, doubles finalists and consolation champions from the tournament receive automatic entrance into the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships from Nov. 3-6, at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York.