Montevallo announced it will reinstate the men’s tennis program beginning in the fall of 2010, upping the Falcons’ varsity sport offerings to a dozen.

Head women’s tennis coach Steve Faulkner will lead both the men’s and women’s teams.

Men’s tennis made its debut at Montevallo in 1959. The university fielded a team for 22 years before discontinuing the sport at the end of the 1980 season. Men’s tennis will be the sixth men’s sport at Montevallo.

Montevallo will become the 11th Peach Belt Conference school to sponsor men’s tennis, joining Armstrong Atlantic State, Augusta State, Columbus State, Flagler, Francis Marion, Georgia College, Georgia Southwestern State, Lander, North Georgia and South Carolina-Aiken.