1957-1973 - COACH WILMER ALLISON
Wilmer Allison returns to the university in 1947 and serves as Penick's assistant until 1957. That year he becomes the head tennis coach at the university, where he serves until his retirement in 1972.
He institutes a policy restricting athletic scholarships for tennis to players from Texas.
He is the 1927 Southwest Conference singles champion and the national collegiate singles champion.
As Coach he develops 4 SWC team champions and 4 runners-up.
Coaches his team to three single titles and one doubles title.
In honor of Allison, the "Penick Courts" at the University of Texas are renamed the "Penick-Allison Courts" in 1977.
He is inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and the Longhorn Hall of Honor.
In 1963 he enters the national and international halls of fame.
In Jack Kramer's autobiography he says that “Wilmer Allison had the best forehand volley I ever saw”.
1957 29-1 Coach Wilmer Allison pending
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SWC Champions
Team is ranked 3rd in the nation -
Sammy Giammalva is a ITA All American and a Davis Cup participant.
Team is ranked 3rd -
1958 24-12 Coach Wilmer Allison pending
Sammy Giammalva struggles but recovers and the team wins the SWC championship and wins the singles and doubles championship.
Pels, Allison, Keeton, Giammalva, Becker, Fisher, Penick
1959 28-8 Coach Wilmer Allison Pending
Richard Keeton was the number 1 man on the team . Team placed 2nd in the SWC with runner up positions in singles and doubles.
Longhorn Logo Tennis 1959
1960 30-6 Coach Wilmer Allison Pending
Texas finished 2nd in the SWC losing 4 matches to SMU and 2 to Rice.
Team is ranked 4th- There is still no NCAA tournament to determine a national champion
TOPPING THE CHARTS IN 1960
1961 33-3 Coach Wilmer Allison SWC champs
This was an outstanding team with great Leadership from White and Neil Unterseher. The Longhorns dominated the SWC members beating Rice 5-1, A & M 6-0, Texas Tech 6-0, and SMU 5-1.
SWC Champions
Team is ranked 13th nationally - no NCAA tournament
John White is an ITA All American
1962 27-9 Coach Wilmer Allison Pending
Team is ranked 13th nationally and 2nd in the SWC. Team was led by Mac White and Neil Unterseher
1963 32-4 Coach Wilmer Allison 32-4 SWC Champs
Season started awful with losses to Pan American, Trinity, St. Edward, and the University of Corpus christi. Team finally got on track against SWC foes and barely won the championship over Rice.
Team is ranked 24th nationally
1964 26-10 Coach Wilmer Allison pending
Strayhorn, Walters, Kamrath, Lutz, And Wickett photo is above
Team is ranked 8th nationally
TOP OF THE CHART 1964
1965 24-12 Coach Wilmer Allison pending
David Nelson - a sophomore- shines this season. Team finishes second in conference play with Bill Driscoll and Leo Laborde having a 4-2 single conference record. In 5 years as Tennis Coach, Wilmer Allison has a 142-38 conference record and two SWC championships.
1966- 24-12 Coach Wilmer Allison pending
Longhorns finished 3rd in the conference.
Team is ranked 20th nationally - no NCAA tournament
TOPPING THE CHARTS 1966
1967- 28-8 Coach Wilmer SWC champions
Beat Baylor by one point to win the SWC championship.
SWC Champions
Team is ranked 24th nationally
1968- 17-19 Coach Wilmer Allison - A rebuilding year 4th in SWC
Team is ranked 32nd
Topping the Charts
1969- 24-10 Coach Wilmer Allison-Pending
Team is ranked 13th nationally
1970- 20-16 Coach Wilmer Allison Pending
Team is ranked 18th
1971- 27-15 Coach Wilmer Allison 3rd in SWC
This year was feast or famine. There were no senior starters. The only lost one game in winning against 4 SWC opponents, but lost all games against two SWC opponents.
Team is ranked 36th
1972- 29-13 Coach Wilmer Allison 3rd in Conference
Longhorns lost both the singles and doubles matches at the SWC meet.
Team is ranked 18th
1973- 33-16 Coach Wilmer Allison Pending
Team is ranked 11th
Men's Tennis
Coach Snyder said in 2012 that “When I came to UT, I knew we were going to change the culture of this team. Nobody was going to work harder than we were."
Coach Snyder
Member of the SWC championship teams from 1954-1956
Team captain and SWC doubles champion in 1956
1985 Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association National Coach of the Year
Member of Texas Tennis Hall of Fame
Most victories of active NCAA Division I men's tennis coach's and ranked No. 2 on the all-time list with 697 career wins.
HOH inductee 1988
1973 Coach Dave Snyder #11 in nation
Horns have a 7-1 record in dual meets but the winner of the SWC is the team that wins the most individual matches. Texas is 3rd in the SWC even though the Horns beat the winner of the SWC in a dual meet 4-3. The Houston Cougars join the SWC. Dan Nelson is the most valuable player for the Longhorns.
Team is ranked 11th nationally
1974 31-18 Coach Dave Snyder 3rd in conference
Captain Daniel Nelson is All SWC and ranked 10th nationally. Stewart Keller and Gonzalo Nunes have a good year and will help the 1975 team.
Team is ranked 13th nationally
1975 50-13 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Close but no cigar. Horns played their toughest schedule in a long time- USC , Alabama, Miami, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, and Trinity. The Horns started the season 25-1 with Trinity the only team that dominated them. Unfortunately, in SWC play they finished 2nd by one point to SMU.
Trinity continues to dominate the Horns and the state of Texas..
Horns beat Georgia to finish 3rd in the National Collegiate Indoor Tennis Championships in Madison, Wisconsin losing to Michigan in the semifinals
Team is ranked 11th
1976 57-15 Coach Dave Snyder
Lost the SWC by three points to Houston . The first SWC title tournament to determine the SWC Championship was held in Waco. Won 4 of 9 singles and double events at the SWC tournament. The team upset Pepperdine this year.
Team is ranked 11th Nationally
Steward Keller captured the #3 singles crown.
Graham Whaling and Gary Plock won the number two doubles championship.
Two freshman will make the Longhorns championship caliber for the next 3 years- Steve Denton and Kevin Currin. Each lost only one match in the SWC.
1977 25-7 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Tennis court was renamed the Penick-Allison courts. Team wins the SWC for the first time in 10 years.
The NCAA authorizes a single elimination tournament for the top 16 teams to determine a National Champion.
SWC Champions
Steve Denton is an ITA All American in 1978 and a 1990 inductee into the Texas Tennis Hall of Fame. He holds the Guinness Book of Records with a 139 MPH serve. Reached the round of 8 in the NCAA championship tournament. Ended his career with a 88-22 singles record at Texas
Gary Plock is an ITA All American in 1977 and 1978
1978 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
1979 17-8 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Team makes the round of 16 in postseason.
SWC Champions
Kevin Curren - National Champion and All American in 1977, 1978, and 1979.
1980 16-8 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Team was inexperienced with 5 freshman, 3 sophomores, and 1 junior.
Team is not ranked
1981 13-8 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Team is ranked 17th -
ITA national ranking system begins.
Since 1981 Texas has been ranked in the top 20 -13 times
1982 17-8 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
The Tennis team got off to a good start beating Miami, Stanford, and Harvard with Doug Crawford, Jonny Levine, and To Fontana leading the way.
Team is ranked 13th
1983 16-11 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Texas makes the round of 16 in postseason and is ranked 11th.
Jonny Levine is an ITA All American in 1983 and 1984 and finishes 2nd in the nation in singles.
1984 20-5 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Horn upset SMU and Trinity. Team was ranked #12 in the nation. Jonny Levine was #3 in singles nationally and winner of the gold at the Pan - American games. On the team Fontana was ranked second to Levine. Levine made it to the 3rd round of the U.S. Open before being eliminated by Ivan Lendl.
Team is ranked 11th - makes the round of 16 in postseason.
1985 26-5 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
"Perhaps" the toughest schedule of any Longhorn team with dual meets against #1 UCLA, # 7 Trinity, #9 Clemson, # 14 Ca;- Irvine. This team made quarter finals in Post season.
This Team makes the quarter finals in postseason.
1986 18-4 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Team is ranked 7th - makes the quarter finals in postseason.
Charles Beckman is an ITA All American in 1985, 1986, and 1987.
Charles Beckman and Royce Deppe are ranked nationally # 5 in 1984, # 2 in 1986, and #3 in 1987 in doubles.
1987 16-6 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Team is ranked 15th - makes the quarterfinals in postseason.
1988 19-7 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Team places 2nd in the SWC but makes the quarter finals in post season and finishes ranked # 13 in the nation.
1989-11-12 Coach Dave Snyder Pending 3rd in the SWC
This team has promise but it did not materialize. Horns started Conference play with a 5 - 8 record.
1990 22-2 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Steve Bryan , Michael Penman ,and Mitch Michulka lead men’s tennis to the top of the SWC.
SWC Tournament Champions
Team is ranked 7th nationally and makes the quarter finals in postseason.
TOP SONG
Coach Snyder wins the 1990 World Tennis Coach of the Year award.
Mitch Michulka and Michael Penman are 2nd in the nation in doubles.
Steve Bryan National Champion
Steve Bryan wins the National Championship, and is an All American in 1989 and 1990. His career winning percentage is the highest winning percentage in the history of Texas Tennis at .822.
Steve is the 4th Longhorn to win a NCAA singles championship and he is inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Men's Tennis Hall of Fame in 2007. He holds the school record for combined season victories with 70.
1991 14-7 Coach Dave Snyder
Horns play 10 top tennis teams this year. Several setbacks plaque the team but they still qualify for the NCAA tournament.
Team is ranked 21st nationally
1992 14-10 Coach Dave Snyder team Finished 19th at Nationals
Men’s tennis team finishes second to TCU in the SWC tournament. The Horns beat New Mexico but lose to USC in the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament. Ander Eriksson and Trey Phillips are the only two Horns that have a nationally rating.
Team is ranked 19th - makes the quarter finals in postseason.
1993 21-5 Coach Dave Snyder Pending #14 nationally and SWC Champs.
Eriksson, Phillips , Williams, and Draper are all nationally ranked. In doubles Eriksson and Phillips are ranked 9th nationally.
SWC Regular season and tournament Champions
Semi-finals- Best ranking during Coach Snyder tenure @ #5
1994 20-5 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Chad Clark, David Draper and Trey Phillips returned from a team that place 3rd nationally the year before. Chad finished with a 97-30 record and was an All American. Horns placed 2nd in the SWC.
SWC co-Regular season Champions
Team is ranked 7th - makes the quarter finals in postseason.
Quarterfinals
Chad Clark is one of only 3 Longhorns to finish in the top 10 in singles and doubles. He is the only Longhorn to complete this feat twice. He finishes 8th in the Nation in 1994.
Chad Clark and Trey Phillips are ranked #4 in the nation in 1995 and 6th in 1994 in doubles.
1995 19-5 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
SWC Regular season Champions
Team is ranked 9th - makes the round of 16 in postseason.
1996 19-7 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Team is ranked 13th - makes the round of 16 in postseason.
1997 26-6 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Big 12 regular season and Big 12 tournament Champions
Team is ranked 10th - makes the quarter finals in postseason.
1998 24-5 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Big 12 regular season champions
Team is ranked 5th - makes the round of 16 in postseason.
1999 25-5 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Big 12 regular season and Big 12 tournament Champions
The NCAA tournament is expanded from 16 teams to 64-teams.
Team is ranked 9th - makes the round of 16 in postseason.
2000 20-7 Coach Dave Snyder Pending
Team is ranked 16th - makes the round of 16 in postseason.
Michael Blue and Nick Crowell are ranked 10th nationally in doubles.
Coach Michael Center 2001 to present
Record at Texas thru 2015 is 305-109 in 15 years
2007 U.S. Professional Tennis Association National College Coach of the Year
Big 12 Coach of the Year 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014
305-109 record
Region V Coach of the Year- 1994 and 1995
Final 4 appearances three times
2006 highest ranking as Number 3
4th Tennis Coach in the history of Tennis at Texas
12- Round of 16 appearances
4- Conference Championships
2- Tournament titles
15 All Americans
4 Big 12 Conference Players of the Year
67All-Big 12 singles and double selections
54Academic Big 12 selections
2001 - 18-6 Coach Michael Center
Team is ranked 23rd - makes the second round in postseason.
2002 23-4 Coach Michael Center Pending
Team is ranked 15th - makes the round of 16 in postseason.
Jose Zarhi and Rodrigo Echagaray finish 6th nationally in doubles
2003 19-7 Coach Michael Center Pending
Team is ranked 13th - makes the round of 16 in postseason and the 12 consecutive NCAA appearance.
Jean Simon and Jose Zarhi win the Big 12 doubles championship
2004 15-12 Coach Michael Center pending
Antonio Ruiz and Jose Zarhi with the Big 12 double championship
Team is ranked 36th - makes the second round in postseason.
2005 13-10 Coach Michael Center pending
Team is ranked 28th - makes the second round in postseason.
2006 26-4 Coach Michael Center pending
Big 12 Co-regular season and Big 12 tournament Champions
Semi-Finals In Postseason And Highest Ranking (3) In Texas Tennis History.
University of Texas senior Callum Beale and Travis Helgeson and freshman Miguel Reyes Varela officially earned All-America status from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).
Callum Beale and Miguel Reyes-Varela are ranked 8th nationally in doubles.
Travis Helgeson is ranked 7th in the nation in singles.
2007 20-9 Coach Michael Center pending
Round of 16
Jon Wiegand receives the Provost Awards for posting a perfect 4.0 GPA during at least one semester in 2007.
Team is ranked 12th - qualifies for round of 16 in postseason.
Dimitar Kutrovsky and Josh Zavala are the Big 12 doubles champions
2008 25-6 Coach Michael Center
Big 12 co-regular season champions
Runner Up To Georgia For NCAA- Highest finish ever in a NCAA National Championship tournament.
Ricardo is 2008 ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year and he is three-time ITA South Central Region Assistant Coach of the Year (2002, 2006, 2008)
Kellen Damico and Ed Corrie 2008 ITA All-American (doubles)
2009 23-7 Coach Michael Center
Team is ranked 9thmakes the final 4 for the 3rd time in Longhorn Tennis history.
Ditimar Kutrovsky ITA 2008,09,10
Dimitar Kutrvsky becomes Texas all-time winningest player with 230 victories. He is one of only three Longhorns to finish in the top 10 in singles and doubles. He is ranked 8th Nationally in 2010.
2010 27-3 Coach Michael Center
Big 12 regular season and Big 12 tournament Champions
Team is ranked 4th - makes the round of 16 in postseason.
Dimitar Kutrovsky and Josh Zavala are ranked 7th in doubles in 2010.
2011 19-9 Coach Michael Center
Team is ranked 16th - loses in the second round of postseason.
Ed Corrie and Jean anderson are ranked 8th nationally in doubles.
Team is ranked 16th - loses in the second round of postseason.
2012 16-10 Coach Michael Center
Ranked 27th - loses in the first round of postseasons
2013 17-9 Coach Michael Center
Team makes 2nd round of postseason and is ranked 23rd.
Chris Camillone, David Holiner, and
Seren Hess-Olesen make the All American team.
2013 17- 9 Coach Michael Center
Team reaches the quarter final round for the NCAA matches.
Ranked #23 nationally
2014 23-6 Coach Michael Center
Big 12 co-regular season Champions
Team is ranked 8th
For the first time in program history, Texas Men's Tennis advanced to the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships .
Tennis Courts are demolished
Seren Hess-Olesen wins the Big 12 singles championship
2015 21-7 Coach Michael Center
Team is ranked 9th and makes the round of 16
Søren Hess-Olesen is one of six players in the nation to finish top-15 in both the singles and doubles polls. He is the 6th Longhorn to finish in the top 10 in singles . He is the ITA Senior Player of the Year and ranked 6th in the nation in 2015.
Loyd Glasspool is a ITA All American in singles and doubles
Søren Hess-Olesen and Loyd Glasspool NCAA double champions.