Drury University Women's Tennis

Smith, a five time Regional Coach of the Year honoree, will enter his 11th season as head coach of the Drury women's tennis program and fifth in guiding both the nationally recognized men's and women's Panther squads when DU takes to the courts in 2015-16. The Drury men's squad captured Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship this past spring and qualified for the NCAA-II post-season tournament. The league title was the seventh in 10 years as a GLVC member for the DU men and the women have won seven of the last 10 GLVC titles, while both extended very impressive NCAA streaks - for the men, 18 consecutive post-season appearances, while the DU women have made the NCAA meet for 14 consecutive years. The DU men finished 23-3 this past season - their season coming to an end with a loss in the "Sweet 16" to Lander -  while the Panthers women were 22-3 overall. As has become their custom, neither Drury squad lost a regular season GLVC match.  Smith who played at Northwest Missouri State, transitioned into one of the youngest NCAA head coaches in the country when he led the Panthers to a 23-5 record and the school's first NCAA-II Elite Eight appearance in 2005-2006. To prove it was no temporary thing, Smith had Drury back in the national limelight a year later, posting a 19-6 mark and a trip to the NCAA-II Sweet 16 in '07. And what has followed since is a continuation of the great expectations of one of the top women's tennis programs in the Midwest. Entering the 2015-16 campaign, Smith has compiled a career mark of 200-50 in dual matches with the DU women's squad, including a 64-1 mark in GLVC play over the past nine regular seasons and is 82-13 in his four seasons as the Panther men's coach, including 22-0 in GLVC regular season matches. Drury's best NCAA finish in Smith's tenure as women's coach came in 2006, when his Panthers advanced to the Elite Eight before falling to perennial power Armstrong Atlantic. Smith is a six-time winner of the GLVC's Coach of the Year distinction, including the men's honor in the league in 2013, and has coached now five recipients of the conference's Player of the Year award - Andy Blair in 2012 & 2013, Chandra Capozzi in 2009, Laure Piquemal in 2008, Mouna Sabri in 2007 and Alejandra Miranda-Sanchez in 2006.  He has also been named ITA Regional Coach of the year four times. A Lee's Summit native, Smith was a standout player at NWMSU as well, lettering all four seasons and earning six Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Associations championships (three in singles, three in doubles. He was a first-team all-MIAA selection each season from 2000-03.   Jarrod Smith Head Coach, Men's & Women's Tennis Jarrod Smith, a five time Regional Coach of the Year honoree, will enter his 11th season as head coach of the Drury women's tennis program and fifth in guiding both the nationally recognized men's and women's Panther squads when DU takes to the courts in 2015-16. The Drury men's squad captured Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship this past spring and qualified for the NCAA-II post-season tournament. The league title was the seventh in 10 years as a GLVC member for the DU men and the women have won seven of the last 10 GLVC titles, while both extended very impressive NCAA streaks - for the men, 18 consecutive post-season appearances, while the DU women have made the NCAA meet for 14 consecutive years. The DU men finished 23-3 this past season - their season coming to an end with a loss in the "Sweet 16" to Lander -  while the Panthers women were 22-3 overall. As has become their custom, neither Drury squad lost a regular season GLVC match.  Smith who played at Northwest Missouri State, transitioned into one of the youngest NCAA head coaches in the country when he led the Panthers to a 23-5 record and the school's first NCAA-II Elite Eight appearance in 2005-2006. To prove it was no temporary thing, Smith had Drury back in the national limelight a year later, posting a 19-6 mark and a trip to the NCAA-II Sweet 16 in '07. And what has followed since is a continuation of the great expectations of one of the top women's tennis programs in the Midwest. Entering the 2015-16 campaign, Smith has compiled a career mark of 200-50 in dual matches with the DU women's squad, including a 64-1 mark in GLVC play over the past nine regular seasons and is 82-13 in his four seasons as the Panther men's coach, including 22-0 in GLVC regular season matches. Drury's best NCAA finish in Smith's tenure as women's coach came in 2006, when his Panthers advanced to the Elite Eight before falling to perennial power Armstrong Atlantic. Smith is a six-time winner of the GLVC's Coach of the Year distinction, including the men's honor in the league in 2013, and has coached now five recipients of the conference's Player of the Year award - Andy Blair in 2012 & 2013, Chandra Capozzi in 2009, Laure Piquemal in 2008, Mouna Sabri in 2007 and Alejandra Miranda-Sanchez in 2006.  He has also been named ITA Regional Coach of the year four times. A Lee's Summit native, Smith was a standout player at NWMSU as well, lettering all four seasons and earning six Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Associations championships (three in singles, three in doubles. He was a first-team all-MIAA selection each season from 2000-03.