University of Hawaii at Manoa Women's Tennis

Hernandez served as Cal's assistant women's coach for three seasons under head coach Jan Brogan. Hernandez was awarded the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Women's Assistant Coach of the Year for the Northwest Region in 2002. In 2000, the Golden Bears advanced to the NCAA Championship semifinals before losing to rival Stanford for the second consecutive year. That Cal team featured the pair of Claire Curran and Amy Jensen, who teamed up to capture the NCAA doubles title. The next two years, Hernandez helped Cal advance to the NCAA Round of 16. Hernandez takes over a storied UH program which has not had a winning season since the 1998-99 season. He is the eighth head coach in the program's history, which has posted 10 20-win seasons all under former coach Jim Schwitters, the winningest coach in NCAA Division I history. Hernandez has spent the summers as a hitting coach for professional tennis players Martina Hingis, previously the world's No. 1 ranked player, Anna Kournikova, and Conchita Martinez on the Women's Tennis Association Tour. Hernandez began his collegiate coaching resume as a volunteer assistant at the University of San Diego in 1998. The next year he served as the top assistant and played an instrumental role in guiding Zuzana Lesenarova to the 1999 NCAA singles title. Previously, Hernandez served as an assistant tennis pro at the Rancho Bernardo Swim & Tennis Club. In addition, he also worked at Golden Valley Country Club as the head coordinator for junior tennis, and the San Diego area after-school tennis enrichment program. A 1995 graduate of San Diego State, Hernandez played No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles for the Aztecs in 1994. In 1996, he was a finalist at the USTA National Men's 25 Hardcourt Singles tournament and ranked No. 3 in the USTA's Southern California Section rankings. He won five men's open singles titles and three men's open doubles events during 1997 in Southern California. The following year, he captured one open singles title in Southern California and four open singles titles in Minnesota. -In 2015, Rainbow Wahine Cindy Nguyen earns her second automatic bid as the highest ranked women's tennis player in the Big West to the NCAA Women's Tennis Singles Championship (Waco, Texas) -Also in 2015, Nguyen became the first women's tennis player to be voted a conference (Big West) Player of the Year as well being named the ITA Southwest Region "Player to Watch." -On January 13, 2015, the Rainbow Wahine upset No. 29 Kentucky, 4-3 for one of the biggest wins in program history which vaulted them into the ITA rankings in which they rose as high as No. 48 on Feb. 26. -Nguyen becomes the first Rainbow Wahine to ever earn a spot in the 2014 NCAA Women's Tennis Singles Championship in Athens, Ga. -UH made its first NCAA Tournament appearance. -UH won its first WAC Tournament after advancing to its first ever  WAC championship match. -UH was nationally ranked in the ITA for the first time in school history. -UH secured its first WAC Freshman of the Year (Jamie Pawid) and 2012 marked the first time two singles players were named to the all-WAC first team (Barbara Pinterova and Katarina Poljakova)  

Peppi Ramstedt joins the Rainbow Wahine staff as an assistant coach just prior to the 2025-26 season. A native of Helsinki, Finland, Ramstedt is a 2025 graduate of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, She earning her Bachelor's degree in mathematics last Spring after helping the Rainbow Wahine finish fourth in the Big West with a 10-8 overall record. Ramstedt began her collegiate career at Long Beach State where she garnered All-Big West honors all three seasons prior to transferring to UH for the 2025 season. Last year, as a senior transfer, she earned all-BW honorable mention honors in both singles and doubles with partner Sheena Masuda. Ramstedt served as team captain both with The Beach and the Rainbow Wahine while earning Dean's list honors for three consecutive years while competing at LBSU.. Prior to coming to Hawai'i Ramstedt served as a youth tennis coach at the HVS - Tennis ry in Helsinki, Finland  There she coached competitive players (ages 7-10) and designed and led drills, games and structured practices for player development. Ramstedt also spent time as a line umpire manager and recruiter for the Tali Open, an ATP Challenger Tour event in Helsinki. She recruited, scheduled and coordinated line judges for the tourney. Playing Career Highlights 2022-24 - Long Beach State 2025 - Hawai“i Playing Career - Awards & Honors 2022 All-Big West Honorable Mention - Doubles 2023 All-Big West Honorable Mention - Singles 2023 All-Big West Second Team - Doubles 2024 All-Big West First TEam - Doubles 2024 Big West Player of the Week - Jan. 24, 2024 2025 All-Big West Honorable Mention - Singles & Doubles 2025 Big West Player of the Week - Feb. 5, 2025 Academic Awards 2023 CSC Academic All-District Team 2024 CSC Academic All-District Team