Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Men's Tennis

Pete Smith enters his first season as the head men's and women's tennis coach at Kutztown University in 2024-25. Smith joins the Maroon and Gold after a successful 17-year run at Ursinus College in nearby Collegeville, Pa. He guided the Bears’ NCAA Division III men’s program for 17 seasons and handled head coaching duties with the women’s program for the last 10 seasons.   During his tenure with Ursinus, Smith won 165 matches on the men’s side and 93 on the women’s. The Bears were members of the ultra-competitive Centennial Conference, where Smith was twice named Men’s Coach of the Year (2010 and 2013).   In 2013, Smith led the Ursinus men to their first and only Centennial Conference postseason berth in program history while capturing a program-record 14 victories (14-7).   Smith took over coaching duties of the women’s program in 2014-15 and found immediate success. The Bears qualified for their first and only CC playoff appearance, won a program-record 14 matches and finished the year ranked 16th in the ITA Atlantic South Region.   The men finished the 2016-17 season 12-7 while landing seventh in the final NCAA Region III rankings and 19th in the ITA Atlantic South Region rankings.   Smith, the winningest coach in Ursinus history for both the men’s and women’s programs, secured top 25 men’s recruiting classes in 2010 and 2014. He coached 13 all-conference players and was the 2016 USTA Philadelphia District College Coach of the Year.   Smith enjoyed a standout tennis and basketball career at Ursinus. He claimed the 1990 Middle Atlantic Conference Singles Championship and earned 50 career singles wins. On the hardwood, Smith scored 1,443 points, which still ranks eighth all-time at the school. He graduated in 1991 with a degree in mass communications and was inducted into the Ursinus College Hall of Fame for Athletes in 2001.   PETE SMITH MEN'S TENNIS YEAR-BY-YEAR COACHING RECORD OVERALL CONFERENCE SEASON SCHOOL WIN LOSS PCT. WIN LOSS PCT. POSTSEASON 1 2007-08 Ursinus 7 11 .389 2 7 .222 2 2008-09 Ursinus 2 5 .286 1 2 .333 3 2009-10 Ursinus 10 11 .476 1 8 .111 4 2010-11 Ursinus 11 9 .550 1 8 .111 5 2011-12 Ursinus 12 10 .545 1 8 .111 6 2012-13 Ursinus 14 7 .667 5 4 .556 Centennial Conference First Round 7 2013-14 Ursinus 13 7 .650 3 6 .333 8 2014-15 Ursinus 11 9 .550 3 6 .333 9 2015-16 Ursinus 12 7 .632 4 5 .444 10 2016-17 Ursinus 12 7 .632 4 5 .444 11 2017-18 Ursinus 10 8 .556 4 5 .444 12 2018-19 Ursinus 8 11 .421 2 7 .222 13 2019-20 Ursinus 5 2 .714 0 1 .000 14 2020-21 Ursinus 5 2 .714 5 2 .714 15 2021-22 Ursinus 10 7 .588 3 5 .375 16 2022-23 Ursinus 13 7 .650 2 6 .250 17 2023-24 Ursinus 11 7 .611 2 6 .250 TOTALS 17 Seasons 166 127 .567 43 91 .321   PETE SMITH WOMEN'S TENNIS YEAR-BY-YEAR COACHING RECORD OVERALL CONFERENCE SEASON SCHOOL WIN LOSS PCT. WIN LOSS PCT. POSTSEASON 1 2014-15 Ursinus 14 7 .667 5 5 .500 Centennial Conference First Round 2 2015-16 Ursinus 11 7 .611 4 6 .400 3 2016-17 Ursinus 12 7 .632 4 6 .400 4 2017-18 Ursinus 9 10 .474 3 7 .300 5 2018-19 Ursinus 9 11 .450 3 7 .300 6 2019-20 Ursinus 6 1 .857 0 0 - 7 2020-21 Ursinus 4 3 .571 4 3 .571 8 2021-22 Ursinus 10 8 .556 4 5 .444 9 2022-23 Ursinus 9 11 .450 1 7 .125 10 2023-24 Ursinus 9 10 .474 1 8 .111 TOTALS 10 Seasons 93 75 .554 29 54 .349