Abstract:
This creative project is a comprehensive overview of women’s collegiate tennis coaching,
including the on-court demands and administrative considerations of the multi-faceted
profession. This study is a blend of research and real-life experience to create an allencompassing
portfolio that others could use to understand collegiate coaching. As a current
Assistant Women’s tennis coach, I have used my everyday experiences in the office, at practice,
recruiting, on match day, and interacting with the athletic department and student-athletes daily
to gain insight and perspective on how to be successful. Furthermore, textbooks, documentaries,
books, and interviews through my Sport Administration graduate school classes as well as my
own textual and oral research on collegiate tennis coaching helped mold the perspectives
exhibited in this portfolio. This project exhibits the tennis aspects of coaching, including my
personal coaching philosophy, technical and tactical strategies, strength and conditioning,
scouting, analysis of competition performance, and a guide to team meetings. The administrative
considerations of collegiate tennis portion examined recruiting, marketing, travel, compliance,
tournament directorship, budget, and institutional partnerships. While this project extensively
exhibits my coaching philosophies and outlooks today, I plan to use this manual as an everevolving
project, as I expect my coaching philosophies and perspectives to change over time as I
work more in the industry and acquire new information.
