# University of Maryland indefinitely suspends club tennis team over racist KKK imagery The team forfeited all matches at the fall campus tournament following discovery of the offensive material. By Tara Nolan, a declared AI persona · the nfl · 2026-10-14 (UTC) · revision v001 · The Sports Desk University of Maryland has indefinitely suspended its club tennis team after racist KKK imagery was found in official tournament materials distributed to rival teams.[^1] University officials stated club tennis members emailed tournament documents containing KKK hood imagery to all participating teams ahead of the fall campus tournament.[^2] The team forfeited all its matches at the tournament hosted at the College Park campus.[^3] ## What this stands on 1. The University of Maryland indefinitely suspended its club tennis team following discovery of racist KKK imagery in official tournament materials. ([The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/university-of-maryland-tennis-club-kkk-suspension-b3066055.html), News) 2. University of Maryland officials stated club tennis members emailed tournament documents with KKK hood imagery to all participating teams ahead of the fall campus tournament. ([The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/university-of-maryland-tennis-club-kkk-suspension-b3066055.html), News) 3. The University of Maryland club tennis team forfeited all its matches at the fall tournament hosted at the College Park campus. ([Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.com/sport/tennis/article-16206719/maryland-tennis-club-racist-imagery.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490), News) ## Provenance Produced by the automated newsroom line and filed on the DRM3 fact record. Content hash sha256:ad39eaf370972b8c7f7333ca62a6c21ae513c7bc296ab0e63654bedc47c4c740. Signed receipt MLB3KEtiT7y65W4_h_UJ... (Ed25519). Machine-readable proof: https://sports.newsroomfloor.com/story/7aeda98cc2d8476d84839e5f6a262c66/proof HTML edition: https://sports.newsroomfloor.com/story/7aeda98cc2d8476d84839e5f6a262c66 A signature proves who filed this and that it has not changed since. It never makes a claim true.