Goldey-Beacom College Women's Tennis

Eric Burns is in his first full season as head coach for Goldey-Beacom after serving in 2024-25 as associate head coach and interim head coach.   The 2024-25 season was another standout one for the Lightning, who went 15-5 overall and 7-3 in the league to clinch a spot in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Tournament.  That team saw Zehra Canbaz and Sofia Lopez each named first team all-league. Burns arrives after serving as boys’ and girls’ coach from 2012-22 for Pequea Valley School District.  In notching a combined 212-104 record, this included a 101-66 mark among the boys’ team.   Pequea Valley on the boys’ side won the PIAA AA team championship in 2019 and also qualified for the state tournament in 2022.  Burns also helped the squad to two other district appearances in 2018 and 2021.   Burns was tabbed the Lancaster-Lebanon League Coach of the Year in 2018 and 2019 and the Pequea Valley School District Coach of the Year three times.  He also served as the L-L League PIAA District 3 coaching representative from 2017-22.   The girls’ squad went 111-38 in his time, advancing to the PIAA District Tournament five times.  Burns was picked the L-L League Coach of the Year in 2017.   Burns served as an assistant boys’ basketball coach for Living Word Academy from 1999-2004, twice advancing to the state tournament.  He also was the JV boys’ basketball coach at Pequea Valley from 2013-16.