California University of Pennsylvania Women's Tennis

A former player and coach within the area, Anita Onufer enters her seventh year as head tennis coach at California (PA) during the 2025-26 season. Onufer has posted a 40-53 overall record while with the Vulcans, which includes a pair of pandemic-shortened campaigns. Cal has won at least seven matches in each of the last four years after winning a combined 11 matches the previous six seasons. Last spring, Onufer guided the Vulcans to their winningest season in a decade by finishing with a 14-7 overall record. Cal returned to the PSAC Tournament for the first time since 2016 and was featured in the NCAA Atlantic regional rankings, which determine the field for the NCAA Tournament. The program also featured its initial All-PSAC West selections in a decade last year with Teddi Isherwood garnering accolades in both singles and doubles play. The Vulcans boasted four players on the CSC Academic All-District Team in 2025 with Leandra Guldimann and Diletta Maria Mungo earning the honor for a consecutive year. Over the last three years, a total of nine players have earned CSC Academic All-District laurels in the new structure for the Academic All-America program that placed a maximum number of four women’s tennis nominees per institution. Prior to joining Cal, Onufer spent two seasons on the coaching staff at fellow Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC)-member Seton Hill after being a three-sport student-athlete at Saint Vincent, a NCAA Division III program. She was a member of the tennis, swimming and lacrosse teams while with the Bearcats. Onufer helped Seton Hill finish fourth in the PSAC West standings twice after the program won only a combined five divisional matches in its initial four years in the league. The Griffins missed qualifying for the PSAC Tournament by just one match in each of the two seasons. As a student-athlete, Onufer primarily played fifth singles and third doubles while at Saint Vincent. She posted a combined 10 wins in singles play over her last two seasons and teamed with Maria Gismondi for 15 wins in doubles play as a junior and senior. The Bearcats finished as high as third at the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Championships during her college career.   Onufer was also a member of the lacrosse team at Saint Vincent for three seasons and was a member of the swimming team as a freshman. In lacrosse, she appeared in over 35 career games and tallied nine points on six goals and three assists. Onufer was a member of the league-champion 200 freestyle relay and placed third overall in the 100 butterfly at the 2014 PAC Swimming Championships.   A native of Pittsburgh, Onufer was a three-sport letter winner at Serra Catholic. She was a three-year state qualifier in swimming and received all-conference status in volleyball. Onufer, who also competed on the track & field team, served as team captain for both the swimming and volleyball teams.   Onufer completed her bachelor's degree in biology with a concentration in organismal biology and a minor in psychology from Saint Vincent in 2017. She later received her master's degree in business administration with a concentration in healthcare administration from Seton Hill in 2018.

A former runner for the Vulcans, Sandy Estep enters her 11th season as an assistant coach at California (PA) working with sprints, hurdles and relays. Estep has developed some of the fastest sprinters in school, PSAC and NCAA Division II history while with the Vulcans. She has mentored a combined 24 individual league champions and 53 All-PSAC individual honorees, plus five championship relays, since joining the coaching staff in November of 2015. A native of Virginia, Estep proved instrumental in the development of two-time National Champion Divonne Franklin. She closed her career as one of the most decorated student-athletes in all of school history, as she was an eight-time All-American and 15-time PSAC Champion. A two-time Academic All-American, Franklin set the fastest time in NCAA Division II history regardless of conditions in the finals of 100 meters at the 2023 NCAA Championships. The Philadelphia native shattered the all-time league and championship record in four events as a senior and set a combined seven school records. Franklin was chosen as the USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Track Athlete of the Year and PSAC Track Athlete of the Year during both the indoor and outdoor campaigns as both a junior and senior. Additionally, she was voted the PSAC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year and named a national Top 30 honoree for the prestigious NCAA Woman of the Year Award in 2023. Estep also mentored one of the fastest men’s sprinters in school history in Jae’Len Means. He closed his career as an eight-time PSAC Champion in individual events and received All-PSAC honors a combined 17 times (13 individual). Means completed a three-peat in the 200 meters at the indoor championships from 2017-19 and set indoor school record in the event when he finished fifth at the 2019 NCAA Championships. The Monroeville native also set outdoor school records in the 100 and 200 meters as a senior when he repeated as the league champion in both events. In both 2020 and 2023, Estep was honored as the USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Women’s Indoor Assistant Coach of the Year. The Vulcans placed fourth at the PSAC Championships in both seasons, while also finishing a program-best second place in 2022. Estep has worked with a pair of PSAC Champion hurdlers in recent years. Jalessa Mackey became the first women’s league champion in the 100 hurdles in over two decades in 2021. Kailee Bunyard then swept the 60 and 100 hurdles the following year and reset the indoor school record in the 60 hurdles in 2024. The Vulcans recently won a relay title at the league championships in three-consecutive years with the women’s 4x400 relay claiming conference titles at the 2020 indoor meet and the 2022 outdoor event. On the men’s side, Cal captured a league crown at back-to-back outdoor championships in 2016 and 2017. While a student at Cal, Estep competed on the cross country and track & field teams from 2008-13 and also served as a graduate assistant for the program during 2013-14 academic year. In track & field, Estep was a nine-time individual qualifier for the PSAC Championships and set three school records as part of relay teams. As a sophomore, Estep helped the 4x400 relay claim the first women’s relay league title since 1985 and qualified for the NCAA Championships. Estep received USTFCCCA All-Academic honors for track & field three times in her career and earned D2ADA Academic Achievement Award status as a senior. She also garnered PSAC Scholar-Athlete laurels five times in her collegiate career and was a 10-time member of the Cal U AD Honor Roll. She earned her undergraduate degree in sport management with a concentration in wellness and fitness in 2012. The following year, she completed her master’s degree in exercise science and health promotion with an emphasis in performance enhancement and injury prevention. Estep also earned a post-master’s certificate in sport psychology from Cal in 2014. Estep and her husband Brady, an assistant coach for the Vulcans, reside in California with their son Kai.

A former PSAC Champion, Brady Wert enters his eighth season as an assistant coach with the California (PA) track & field teams in 2026. Wert has mentored 10 league champions and 35 All-PSAC honorees over six different events while with the Vulcans. Additionally, Cal has broken a combined 11 school records over the last four seasons while Beyoncé Kelly earned All-America status in the high jump five times during that span. Kelly became the program’s first All-American in the high jump in over 35 years in 2022. She registered a trio of top-five finishes in the event at the NCAA Championships in her career, highlighted by a national runner-up performance during the 2024 indoor season. Kelly swept the league title in the high jump over her last two    years and was chosen the 2024 USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Field Athlete of the Year. In 2022, Jalen Cloud became the first individual selected as PSAC Field Athlete of the Year in school history. He accomplished the feat during the indoor campaign when he captured the league title in the triple jump. Logan Pfister won the conference crown in the high jump four times in his career and broke the   indoor league championship record in the event in 2024. Additionally, Daniel Munro broke a pair of school records in 2023 while capturing the outdoor league title in the pole vault. Wert has mentored a women’s All-PSAC multi-event honoree in each of the past four seasons with Kat Henderson earning accolades in both the pentathlon and heptathlon following a standout career at the NCAA Division III level. She also garnered all-region laurels in all three championship seasons in which she competed at Cal and collected CSC Academic-District laurels twice. Prior to his time at Cal, Wert spent two years as an assistant coach at both Kutztown and Saint Francis (Pa.). He started his coaching career as an assistant at Slippery Rock after being a standout for The Rock from 2007-11. Wert was responsible for sprints, hurdles, jumps and multi-events at Kutztown, while also assisting in recruiting. He was instrumental in the development of standout McKenzie Fagan, who was selected an Academic All-American as a senior. Under Wert, Fagan captured the league title in the high jump during both the 2017 indoor season and the 2018 outdoor campaign. Additionally, Kelly Groth broke a 35-year old school record during the preliminaries of the 100-meter dash at the 2018 PSAC Championships. Jhaloni Johnson eclipsed the indoor school mark in the 200-meter dash after the previous record stood for 18 years and Anthony Bullaro established a school record in the 60-meter hurdles at the league championships in 2017. A native of New York, Wert previously served as a volunteer assistant for the Vulcans during the Fall 2016 semester when he worked with throwers before being named an assistant coach at Kutztown. Wert gained NCAA Division I experience while being responsible for sprints, hurdles and jumps at Saint Francis from 2014-16. He helped mentor a trio of Northeast Conference (NEC) Champions with the Red Flash claiming multiple league titles in the men's high jump during the 2016 season, including Nicholas Conway who later competed in the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA East Preliminary Championships. Dashaun Jackson, who qualified for the 2016 USATF Junior Championships in the 400 hurdles, closed his career as a five-time NEC Champion and placed fourth in the 110-meter hurdles at the 2019 NCAA National Championships. Additionally, Wert coached the league champion in the men's pole vault during the winter of 2015. As a college athlete, Wert was a three-time PSAC Champion at Slippery Rock and held the school record in the heptathlon with 5,016 points. He repeated as the league champion in the decathlon in 2010 and 2011 and also captured the conference title in heptathlon in 2011. As a junior, Wert claimed his first conference title by winning the decathlon with a score of 6,444 points. The following year, he won the heptathlon during the indoor campaign before recording the third-highest decathlon performance in the nation during the spring with 6,785 points while also repeating as the league champion in the event. Wert served as an assistant coach with The Rock from 2011-14 and worked with vertical jumps and multi-events. Slippery Rock captured the women's team title at the 2014 PSAC Indoor Championships while the program won league titles in the heptathlon and men's and women's pole vault. He earned his bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing from Slippery Rock in 2011. He later completed a master's degree from Saint Francis in business administration with a concentration in organizational communication in 2016. He and his wife Sandy, an assistant coach for the Vulcans, reside in California with their son Kai.