A transfer from Penn State-Brandywine, Julian Pinder joined the Rutgers-Camden tennis program during the 2024-25 scholastic year, playing everywhere from fourth to sixth singles and second or third doubles.
Academics: PSUAC All-Academic Team during his freshman year at Penn State-Brandywine in 2022-23…Member of the Rutgers-Camden Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the 2024 Fall and 2025 Spring semesters…Dean’s List student.
Tennis Fall 2025: Posted an overall singles record of 2-5 at the second flight, including 0-1 at the King’s College Invitational (Sept. 14) and 2-4 in dual play…Went 4-4 with teammate Max Cabida at first doubles, including 1-1 at the King’s College Invitational and 3-3 in dual play…In dual singles matches, defeated Penn State-Brandywine (Sept. 12), 5-7, 6-2, 13-11, and Cairn (Sept. 19), 7-5, 3-6, 10-6…Lost against Eastern (Sept. 26), 4-6, 1-6, Penn State-Abington (Sept. 27), 1-6, 0-6, DeSales (Oct. ), 2-6, 0-6, and Pratt Institute (Oct. 5), 6-2, 3-6, 0-1 (4-10)…In doubles play, posted wins over Penn State-Brandywine (6-2), Cairn (6-0) and Eastern (6-4)…Lost against Penn State-Abington (4-6), DeSales (0-6) and Pratt Institute (3-6).
Tennis Spring 2025: Played two matches apiece at fourth and fifth singles, going 0-2 at both spots…Went 0-4 in doubles (0-1 at second doubles with Neal Shah and 0-3 at third doubles with Alex Turcu)…In the semester-opening match at Neumann (March 28), lost a close match at fourth singles by scores of 6-1, 6-7 (6-8) and 7-10, while dropping a 4-6 decision at second doubles…Lost 0-6, 0-6 at fourth singles at Salisbury (March 29) and 0-6 at third doubles…In a Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tri-match against SUNY-Oneonta and The College of New Jersey on April 19, played fifth singles, losing to both Oneonta (3-6, 2-6) and TCNJ (0-6, 0-6)…Also lost at third doubles in both matches, 2-6 against Oneonta and 0-6 against TCNJ.
Tennis Fall 2024: Recorded a 2-3 record in singles (0-1 at fourth singles and 1-1 at both fifth and sixth singles)…Went 2-3 in doubles (1-1 at second doubles, including 1-0 with Neal Shah and 0-1 with John Brady; 1-2 at third doubles, including 1-0 with Shah and 0-2 with Christopher Abacan)…Made his Raptor debut with a loss at fourth singles against DeSales (Sept. 7), 4-6, 1-6…Posted a win at second doubles with Shah (6-1) against Penn State Brandywine (Sept. 20)…Lost at third doubles with Abacan (0-6) against Division II Kutztown (Sept. 21)…Played both sixth singles (a 6-0, 6-3 win) and third doubles (a 3-6 loss with Abacan) at Scranton (Sept. 29)…Lost at second doubles with Brady (4-6) at Wilkes (Oct. 5)…Posted a 6-2 win with Shan at third doubles at York (Oct. 12)…Earned a 6-2, 6-2 win at fifth singles at Eastern (Oct. 19).
Pre-Rutgers: Played one season at Penn State-Brandywine during the 2022-23 scholastic year…Appeared in 10 matches…Posted two wins in singles and two in doubles.
High School: Tennis letterman at Penns Grove High School for Coaches George Rhea and Mariano Massari…Helped team capture the Tri-County Conference Diamond Division championship during his junior year…Earned All-Conference First Team honors as a senior…Ranked #17 in his class…Parliamentarian of the National Honor Society…Honor Roll…Graduated in 2022 from Penns Grove High School.
Personal: Born July 30, 2004…Nicknames “King Julian” and “JP”…Hobbies and interests include tennis and spending time with friends…Lists Spiderman as his favorite super hero…Marketing major at Rutgers-Camden…Julian is the son of Ernest and Catherine Pinder of Carneys Point.
