Oakland City University Men's Tennis

Kenneth Michaud joined the staff at Oakland City University in July, 2025, where he served his first season as the assistant Men’s and Women’s Tennis Coach. Coach Michaud comes from Iowa Central Community College, where he was the assistant coach and later became the head coach. During his time at ICCC, he helped the men’s team to a 15-1 record and 8th place at the NJCAA national championships. The women’s team finished with a 7-4 record and 20th place at the NJCAA national championships. The men’s doubles won the program’s first ever national championship in program history in May 2024 and finished the season ranked #1 in the ITA doubles polls. Both programs were recognized as ITA All-Academic teams. Coach Michaud was the Head Men’s and Women’s Tennis Coach at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, for three seasons. During his time at Juniata, his last year he led the men’s team to 12 victories, which was the most since the 2015-16 season. Coach Michaud also has coached one Landmark all-conference first-team selection, 14 ITA academic award winners, and 16 men ITA academic award winners. He has also coached a combined 33 Landmark Academic Honor Roll honorees. Coach Michaud served as vice chair and chair of the Landmark Conference men's and women's tennis coaching groups during his time at Juniata. He also served on the NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Regional Advisory Committee and was the on-site representative at Johns Hopkins for the regional round of the NCAA Tournament. Coach Michaud spent the past three years coaching boys’ tennis at Rancho High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. At Rancho, Michaud posted at 33-17 overall record and won the league for the first time in 17 seasons and was named Class 4A league Coach of the Year. Michaud was also a finalist for the Las Vegas Sun Standout Awards for Coach of the Year. He was the head coach of both the men's and the women's programs at Jacksonville College in Jacksonville, Texas. While there, both programs were ranked in 25th in the NJCAA. He had two women's players that were ranked in the top 50 in the nation and one women's doubles team that was ranked 33rd in the nation. Michaud was the assistant women’s tennis coach at Mesa Community College. That season, the team finished with a season record of 16-0. The team was NJCAA Region One champion and finished 10th at the NJCAA Division I national championships. Michaud played tennis at Reedley Community College before transferring to Graceland University (Iowa) and finishing out his career. While at Graceland, the team was ranked nationally in the NAIA. They were ranked in the top-25 both seasons and his junior year they won the Heart of America conference tournament and advanced to the NAIA national tournament. Coach Michaud received his Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies at Graceland University with a minor in psychology. He completed his Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership in December 2022 at Juniata College.

Coach Dixon is in his fifth season as Coach of the Oakland City University tennis teams. Dixon hails from Plainfield, IN where he took part in the growing tennis programs there. Coach Dixon is a 2017 graduate of the University of Southern Indiana where he received a bachelor of science with a Psychology Degree. Dixon joined the Mighty Oaks staff as a part-time head Coach in the spring of 2017. This season the Mighty Oaks went 0-5 in a very short Spring season. With the first recruiting class under his belt, the Oaks quickly improved to 6-12 with a loaded schedule of big teams. In the third season as the head coach, the teams were heading in the right direction before COVID kicked in and canceled the seasons. It was in 2020-21 that Coach Dixon had his first winning season going 7-4 and 4-2 in conference play, with the men, and 5-9 and 3-5 in the conference earning a 4th place finish for both teams in the first season in conference. Coach Dixon has grown the roster from 8 girls to 17 in his four years and from 5 guys to 15 this season.  For the first time since 2007, the Mighty Oaks advanced to the NCCAA National Championships in Mobile, Alabama, earning a 5th place finish in the country. Both teams look to continue their success under Coach Dixon and Coach Epkey this Spring.