Lewis-Clark State College Men's Tennis

Fong restarted the womens program in 1989 after it had been a club sport for three years, and then took over the mens program the following year. His credentials are impressive. Hes led the mens team to 22 appearances at the NAIA national tournament while the women have qualified 21 times. The mens team has won 13 regional titles, including seven straight from 2000-06, while the womens team won 10 consecutive regional titles from 1997-2006. The NAIA changed the national qualifying format in 2007 and no regional tournament was held. He has been named the NAIA Region I Coach of the Year honors four times (1990, 92, 95, and 2001), and was the 2006 Wilson ITA NAIA Coach of the Year. The list goes on. Fong has made 12 trips to the ITA National Small College Championships and had a womens doubles team win the NAIA portion in 2002. Despite filling much of his regular season schedules with trips to play NCAA Division I opponents, Fong has a career record of 309-275 with the womens program and a 340-245 mark on the mens side. He has coached 33 NAIA All-Americans (18 women and 15 men), 56 NAIA Academic All-Americans (37 women and 19 men), 15 NAIA All-Academic Teams (eight women and seven men), six ITA/NAIA Arthur Ashe Jr. Award winners (four men and two women, two ITA/NAIA Player to Watch Award winners (both women), and two ITA/NAIA Senior Players of the Year (both women). Fong attended the New Mexico Military Institute for a semester in 1979 and then transferred to Arizona Western College in Yuma to play soccer. He then transferred to the University of Idaho in 1980 and was an ITA Scholar-Athlete in 1982, and received the UI Alumni Award for Outstanding Senior in PE in 1983. He graduated that year with a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Physical Education, and earned his Masters degree in Sports and Recreation Management at UI in 1985. Fong then worked as a tennis teaching professional at John Gardiners Tennis Ranch in Carmel Valley, Calif., for a year before serving as a physical education instructor at the Institute Technology of Malaysia in Shah Alam, Malaysia the following year. In 1987, he went back to being a tennis teaching professional at the Rain Tree Club of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and then became head tennis coach and the facility manager of the LCSC Indoor Tennis Center in 1988. He has been active in tennis organizations and serving in a variety of roles at LCSC. In 2004, Fong received the USTA/ITA National Campus Recreation Award. He is serving on the ITA Small College Operating Committee and the NAIA Tennis Coaches Association. He has served at the NAIA Region I Tennis Chairperson since 1998, has been a regional ranker for the NAIA polls since 2000, and served on the NAIA National Awards Committee from 1998-2004. At LCSC, Fong received the Presidents Award for Excellence in Diversity and Cross Cultural Understanding in 2002, and also received the LCSC International Clubs Enlightenment Award that same year. Fong and his late wife, Judy, have two daughters, Mei and Kim. Coach Kai Fong Year-by-Year at Lewis-Clark State

Bonolo Arroyo Valenzuela (Molefe) enters her second season as the LC State Tennis assistant coach in 2025-26. After a four-year career with the Warriors (2020-24), the native of Botswana joined the coaching staff to assist Kai Fong. She coaches with both the men's and women's teams, assists in recruiting and manages the LC State Tennis Center. She was voted the ITA West Region Men's Assistant Coach of the Year in 2025. Arroyo Valenzuela earned the prestigious ITA NAIA Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award in 2023 and represented the NAIA at ITA events. In 2024, she was voted the LCSPYs Warrior of the Year by her peers. She finished her career with 20 singles victories and 19 doubles wins. Arroyo Valenzuela graduated from LC State in 2024 with a degree in kinesiology: health and fitness and resides in the Valley with her husbandm, Maruo.