Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges Men's Tennis

Settles led the Stags to a #2 national ranking, and their 11th consecutive undefeated SCIAC championship, a streak of 105 conference wins. In recognition of Coach Settles' leadership, both the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and the United States Professional Tennis Association have honored him with accolades at the National (2013) and West Regional (2009 and 2006) levels. Settles is a USPTA certified Elite Professional and a graduate of the USTA High Performance Coaching Program. In addition to coaching the Stags, Settles has coached Team USA in the International University Challenge - leading six top collegiate American players in an eight team international competition in France - and the Southern California Maze Cup Team (Boys and Girls 16s and 18s). Settles has served as a volunteer member of two USTA national committees, the Collegiate and Adult & Senior Competition Comittees. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and is co-chair of the ITA Small College Operating Committee and task force on NCAA Legislative Issues. Settles' outreach efforts in the Claremont community have yielded awards in 2006 and 2011. He continues to coach USTA Junior Team Tennis teams and organize USTA Campus Showdowns each fall, while serving as Tournament Director for the USTA National Senior, Super Senior, and Ultra Senior Father-Son Hardcourt Championships in June. In 2013, Settles and wife Kathy launched , a 501(C)3 not for profit foundation bringing tennis to each of Claremont's seven elementary schools in the form of physical education and after school programming. Before coming to CMS, Settles served as Director of Player Services of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the governing body of mens professional tennis. At the ATP World Tour, Settles wide range of responsibilities included supervision of the Player Services Department, staff liaison for the ATP Player Council, Player Leadership Committee, and Board of Directors; and serving as founding committee member of the ATP Medical Services Committee. From 2004-2012, Settles served on the Player Services staff for the Farmers Classic in Los Angeles, an ATP World Tour event. Still an active player himself in the adult and family divisions, Settles is winner of 14 USTA National Championships. Paul, and wife Kathy have four children: Ryley, Christian, James, and Caleb.

David Schwarz, who has guided the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team to national titles three times (2018, 2022, 2023), enters his 12th season as the head coach for the program in 2025-26. As a head coach, Schwarz has now been at the helm for five NCAA Division III national championships, including two as the head coach of the men's tennis program at Middlebury in 2004 and 2010. When he earned his first title with the Athenas in 2018, he became only the fifth coach to win NCAA titles in both men's and women's tennis, and the first ever to do it at two different schools.  Over his first 11 years with CMS, Schwarz has compiled an impressive 242-23 record for a .913 winning percentage. He has also led the Athenas to a 73-3 career record (.961) in SCIAC matches, as well as seven league championships.   The 2022 national championship saw CMS have a meteoric rise over the course of the season, on its way to a 27-3 final record. After a two-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Athenas started slow, including a fourth-place finish at the ITA Indoors, but by the time nationals rolled around, CMS was clicking on all cylinders. The Athenas won their quarterfinal 5-2 over MIT, the semifinal 5-0 over an undefeated Wesleyan team, and the national title 5-1 over top-ranked Chicago.   The Athenas repeated as national champions in 2023 with a more challenging road after graduating three seniors from its 2022 national title lineup. CMS had to come from behind to defeat Pomona-Pitzer 5-4 in the regional finals, and then defeat Amherst 5-4 in the quarterfinals, Emory 5-1 in the semifinals and Chicago 5-3 in the finals a rematch of the 2022 national title. CMS ended the year with a 27-1 record and a 23-match win streak, after falling to Chicago in the ITA Indoor Championship for its only loss of the year. The Athenas would avenge that loss by winning the 2024 ITA Indoor Championship.  Schwarz' first women's national title came in 2018 as CMS hosted the event at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center. The Athenas had a difficult path through Williams and Emory in the semifinals and finals, the two prominent national powers at the time who had combined for the last 10 national titles (and 16 of the last 17), and which had both defeated CMS during the regular season. The Athenas came through, though, with a 5-3 win over Williams and a 5-4 win over Emory to hold the national championship trophy for the first time.  In between the two titles, CMS nearly went back-to-back before falling 5-4 to Wesleyan in the national championship match in 2019. The Athenas were then 14-0 and ranked No. 1 in the nation in 2020, with the two top singles players in the country and the top doubles team, and won the first ITA Indoor Championship in program history, before the pandemic prevented CMS from pursuing a possible national crown.  In his first three full seasons before the 2018 title, earned a third-place finish in 2017 and a fourth-place finish in 2015. Schwarz took the Athenas through an undefeated regular season during the 2016-17 year and led them to the NCAA semifinals, receiving the 2017 ITA National Coach of the Year.  In addition to the team championships, Schwarz has also coached Lindsay Eisenman (CMC '26) to a national singles title in 2025, as well as the doubles pair of Catherine Allen (Scripps '20) and Caroline Cox (CMS '21) to a 2019 national championship. Allen and Cox defeated their own teammates in the finals, Nicole Tan (CMC '20) and Sarah Bahsoun (CMC '22), as the two Athena duos finished 1-2 in the national rankings. He also had another doubles pair in Caroline Ward (CMC '16) and Katie Kuosman (CMC '17), who were national runners-up in 2015 and 2016, while Tan and Lindsay Brown (CMC '18) were national runners-up in 2017. Prior to coming to CMS, Schwarz spent 14 years as a head coach at the Division I and III levels. He most recently was the head coach of the Brown University men’s tennis program, where he went 57-35 over four seasons (2010-2014).  Prior to Brown, his head coaching career began at the Division III level for the men’s team at Middlebury College (2000-2010). During his tenure at Middlebury, Schwarz became the most successful men’s tennis coach in program history, sending the school to its first NCAA postseason appearance. In 10 seasons at Middlebury, he had an overall record of 174-37 (.825), while leading the Panthers to national prominence. Under Schwarz’s guidance, Middlebury made eight-straight trips to the NCAA final four, with the 2004 squad capturing the school’s first NCAA Tennis national title. His success that season earned him the ITA Coach of the Year. Schwarz’s 2006 and 2007 teams set school records at the time, with 22 wins each season. Those records were eclipsed in 2010 when the Panthers earned a 23-2 mark en route to Middlebury’s second national championship in men’s tennis. The ITA Division III National Coach of the Year in 2004, Schwarz was named NESCAC Coach of the Year in 2002, 2004, 2007, and 2010, and earned ITA Regional Coach of the Year honors in both 2009 and 2010. Schwarz played his collegiate tennis at Cornell University, where he graduated in 1989 after growing up in Ithaca. Schwarz began his collegiate coaching career at his alma mater in the fall of 1996 as the assistant men’s and women’s tennis coach. Following one year in that role, he became the assistant men’s coach (1997-2000), spending the 1998-99 season as an assistant with the women as well. The Northeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2000, Schwarz was also the managing director of the Cornell Tennis & Squash Center. Born in Providence, Schwarz received a master’s degree from Cortland State (N.Y.) in 1994.

Fabrizio has amassed coaching records of 92-8 overall and a perfect 30-0 in conference. Before coing to CMS, Fabrizio co-founded the Futchko-Fabrizio International Tennis Academy which brought players from all over the world to Southern California for academic and high performance tennis training.  More recently, he has directed the , combining off-court athletic development and sports nutrition along with on-court technical and competitive training.  He has coached multiple highly ranked juniors, professional tour players and a wide range of collegiate players. Chris has a Bachelors of Sciences degree in Professional and Occupational Studies from California State University, Long Beach. As a player at Cal Poly Pomona, Fabrizio was a Division II CCAA All-Conference player in Singles and Doubles and an ITA All-American. When not working with the Stags, Chris can be found at the Monrovia Fire Department, where he is serves as Fire Division Chief. He and his wife Caprice live in Alta Loma, California with their children Chaselyn - a junior at Azusa Pacific University - and Caden, a high school senior.  

Krieger was inducted into the CMS Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004, recognizing a twenty-two season coaching tenure as Head Coach of the Stags. During that time his overall winning percentage was .647 and his SCIAC winning percentage was .865. Twice named the NCAA Division III Coach of the Year (in 1985 and 1993), Krieger was at the helm for the Stags only national championship (in 1981) and has coached 24 All-Americans. After retiring from teaching mathematics at Harvey Mudd College in May, 2005, Krieger is still actively working on several academic projects, as well as serving on a handful of community based committees and boards. His contributions as team consultant, historian, and volunteer asistant coach continues to be invaluable. Hank and his wife Rita live in Claremont. They have two grown children and four grandchildren.