WACO, Texas - Despite fighting off rain, lightning, and tornado warnings, not even weather could dampen the thrilling conclusion to the 12-day tournament of the NCAA Tennis Championships on Monday in Waco.

When singles play was moved indoors due to rain and lightning, the crowd from the Hurd Tennis Center packed into the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center, raising the excitement and intensity of the championship round to a fever pitch.

The student-athletes competing for the ultimate prize certainly did not disappoint the onlookers, pushing all four championship matches to three full sets.

Ryan Shane, the eighth-seeded Virginia Cavalier, battled back a rigorous attack from Wake Forest's Noah Rubin to claim the men's singles championship.

"I have no words for it," Shane said. "Honestly, it is a great feeling. It feels amazing going home with two national titles, the team and the individuals. It is a pretty great feeling. I do not know how to describe it."

After dropping the first set, and falling to a 6-5 deficit in the second with Rubin serving for the match, Shane managed to break back, forcing a tiebreaker.

Shane clawed his way back on top in the tiebreak set, rolling through to a dominating third set and 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-1 match victory.

Shane became the sixth individual title for the Cavaliers since 2007, accenting the school's national championship in dual play last weekend to round out a banner year for Virginia.

In the women's draw, seventh-seeded Jamie Loeb from North Carolina downed second-seeded Carol Zhao of Stanford to claim the women's singles title.

"It's an amazing accomplishment," Loeb said. "I've been dreaming of this. Last year, when I lost in the quarterfinals, and ever since, I've really wanted to redeem myself. I think I came out here and just swung and had no pressure on myself."

In another thriller, Loeb bounced back from a dropped second set to close out the title in dominant fashion, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1.

Loeb is the first Tar Heel to grab a singles national championship in the women's program's history.

In the transition to doubles action, a tornado warning suspended play for a short delay, picking back up with both the men and women's finalist duos taking the court.

After picking up the Alabama's first ever tennis championship last season, the women's top-seeded pairing of Maya Jansen and Erin Routliffe made it back-to-back for the Crimson Tide, besting the California duo of Klara Fabikova and Zsofi Susanyi, 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3.

"It means a lot," Jansen said. "I wish all of our teammates could have been here for this, but I know it means a lot to win a national championship, and to win it for your university is amazing. It's a really special feeling."

The reigning champs became the fourth women's doubles pair in NCAA history to win back-to-back titles, and the first since 2011.

For the men's draw, the Texas duo of Lloyd Glasspool and Søren Hess-Olesen dropped the Texas Tech pairing of Hugo Dojas and Felipe Soares to claim the men's title, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.

"It feels amazing," Hess-Olesen said. "The University of Texas is such a school filled with tradition. It is a huge honor making history, not only for ourselves, but for a school like that. It is absolutely amazing."

Glasspool and Hess-Olesen gave the Longhorns their fifth doubles championship, but snapping a 71-year drought since their last title, dating back to 1944.

The final round concludes an exciting season, as well as Baylor's debut hosting the NCAA Tennis Championship. The 2016 tournament returns to Tulsa, Okla., and the Michael D. Case Tennis Center at the University of Tulsa.