United States Naval Academy Women's Tennis

Puryear has led Navy to an all-time record of 141-47 (.750) during the program's first seven years of varsity play. The Mids are also 26-5 (.839) in Patriot League Regular Season matches and 106-23 (.823) in home dual matches. Puryear completed his 25th season as a women's tennis head coach in 2015-16 and sports an impressive coaching record of 356-174 (.672). The veteran head coach came to Annapolis after spending 19 years as the head tennis coach at UMBC. Puryear coached the men's team for all 19 seasons, while also coaching the women's team for his final 17 seasons. He owns a 228-176 record as a men's tennis head coach and his combined coaching record stands at 584-350 (.625). In 2015-16 Puryear led Navy to a 20-10 overall record while going 4-2 in the Patriot League Regular Season. Navy reached the 20-win mark for the sixth straight season. Navy defeated rival Army West Point, 4-1, in the Patriot League Semifinals to earn its fifth appearance in the Patriot League Championship match. Amanda Keller (first team) and Claudia Mackenzie (second team) received All-Patriot League honors. In 2014-15 Puryear led Navy to a 20-7 overall record and Navy beat Army for the first time in series history with its 4-3 Star Match win at West Point. Puryear led Navy to its fifth-straight 20-win season and with its 4-0 conference record, Navy went undefeated in Patriot League play for the third time in program history. Navy received the No. 1 seed for the Patriot League Tournament and carried a 12-match winning streak into the tournament championship match, where the Mids fell to Boston University. Under Puryear's direction, three Midshipmen earned All-Patriot League Second-Team Honors. Junior Logan Antill, freshman Amanda Keller and freshman Kristine Rojo were each named to the all-conference second team. Puryear was named the USNA Foundation's Spring Coach of the Year for the 2014-15 season and was also named the USPTA Mid-Atlantic Section College Coach of the Year. In 2013-14 Puryear led Navy to a 21-8 overall record, the program's fourth straight 20-win season. Navy advanced to the Patriot League Semifinals and the Mids rattled off seven straight dual wins from late January to early February. Puryear led Navy to a milestone on April 13 when a 7-0 sweep of Loyola gave Navy's its 100th program win. Three Midshipmen earned All-Patriot League honors with senior Erin Snook being named to the all-league first team. Senior captain Darien Sears and sophomore Sam Droop were both selected to the all-league second team. Snook graduated as Navy's all-time leader in career in singles wins (90), doubles wins (61), combined wins (151) and career singles dual wins (151). Puryear was named the USPTA Mid-Atlantic Section College Coach of the Year for 2014. Additionally, sophomore Mikaela Carlson was named to the Patriot League All-Academic Team. She became the first Navy women's tennis player to earn academic all-league honors. In 2012-13, with his first full recruiting class serving as the team's leaders as seniors, Puryear's squad compiled a 25-5 record, setting a school record for wins. After starting the year with a 2-3 record, the Midshipmen ran off a school-record 17 straight wins and would finish the year by winning 23 of its last 25 matches. The Midshipmen reached the Patriot League Tournament finals for the third straight year and finished the year ranked 10th in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) Atlantic region rankings. Three players earned all-Patriot League accolades, including 2013 grad Emani Decquir, who was honored as Navy's first major award winner, the Patriot League Player of the Year. Puryear would wins his 500th career match early in the year in a 7-0 blanking of Atlantic 10 power St. Bonaventure and during the Mids' win streak, Navy recorded victories over regional powers Richmond, Drexel, James Madison and Delaware. In 2011-12, Puryear guided the Midshipmen back to the Patriot League Tournament finals with a 20-3 overall mark and a 4-0 Patriot League regular-season record while earning the tournament's top seed for the first time in school history. The team ran off 11 straight wins to start the season and finished a sterling 15-1 at home while four players earned all-Patriot League accolades. For his efforts, Puryear was named the Wilson / ITAAtlantic Region Coach of the Year. He accomplished all of this with a lineup that included zero seniors. In 2011-12, Puryear led the upstart Navy women's tennis program to the Patriot League Tournament finals and a 3-0 Patriot League regular-season mark. The Midshipmen finished the year with a 22-10 record, starting the season with an 11-4 mark, then winning nine of their last 10 matches. Three members of the squad were named to the all-Patriot League team and Puryear was named the Patriot League Coach of the Year by his peers. In 2010-11, with a line-up that featured four freshmen quite regularly, the Midshipmen posted a 13-4 overall record, a 2-1 Patriot League mark and a trip to the Patriot League Tournament semifinals. Four of his recruiting classes have been honored as top mid-major classes by the website TennisRecruiting.net and several student-athletes have earned academic and national honors, including 2013 grad Stefanie Ton, who was named the Atlantic Region's recipient for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship Award. Prior to arriving in Annapolis, he won over 440 dual matches while coaching both the men's and women's team at UMBC. His Retriever squads won 11 conference titles from 1998 to 2007 and he has won almost 60 percent of all his dual-meet competitions. Off the court, Puryear was inducted into the UMBCAthletics Hall of Fame (Class of 2012)and in May 2009, Puryear joined the United States Tennis Association Board of Directors, adding to his already-long list of accomplishments. Puryear won 443 matches and 10 conference coach-of-the-year honors in a decade as the head men's and women's coach at UMBC. His men's teams have appeared in five NCAA Tournaments (2000-2003, 2007), while the women have also made five trips (1999-2003) to the NCAA tournament. Puryear's squads are also successful in the classroom. Navy has a number of players named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll accolades, and UMBC's women's tennis squad posted a grade-point average of 3.49 in 2008, best amongst all the programs in the America East Conference. Puryear is a certified USPTA professional and instructor for the Tennis Institute, where he coaches several MATA and nationally-ranked juniors. In May 2009, Puryear joined the Board of Directors with the United States Tennis Association (Maryland) as an at-large director. He also plays at the competitive level in both Maryland and in the Mid-Atlantic Tennis Association, where he has been ranked in the top five in the state and has been ranked as high as No. 2 in doubles on four different occasions. In 1998, Puryear was ranked No. 1 in the state in the men's 35 and older, and in 1999, was No. 6 in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Puryear played two years of tennis at Howard University before transferring to UMBC. Following a year at UMBC, Puryear enlisted in the United States Marine Corps where he served from 1983-88. Returning to his studies at UMBC, Puryear graduated with a B.S. in economics in the spring of 1990. Puryear was selected Big South Conference Women's Coach of the Year in 1997-98, and was the NEC Women's Coach of the Year in 1999 and 2001. In addition, he was selected as the NEC Men's Coach of the Year for 1999-2000 and 2000-01. In 2002, he accomplished a double, earning both men's and women's coach-of-the-year honors, and in 2003, he captured the women's award for the third-straight year. Puryear is certified as a tennis instructor by the USPTA and USPTR. In 2009 Puryear was certified as a High Performance Training Coach by the United States Tennis Association. Puryear and his wife, Venida, have two daughters, Jasmynn and Keri.

Pedergnana helped Navy to a 20-10 overall record in 2015-16 and a 4-2 mark in the Patriot League. Navy reached the 20-win mark for the sixth straight season. Navy defeated rival Army West Point, 4-1, in the Patriot League Semifinals to earn its fifth appearance in the Patriot League Championship match. Amanda Keller (first team) and Claudia Mackenzie (second team) received All-Patriot League honors. In 2014-15 Pedergnana helped Navy to a 20-7 overall record and Navy beat Army for the first time in series history with its 4-3 Star Match win at West Point. Navy posted its fifth-straight 20-win season and with its 4-0 conference record, Navy went undefeated in Patriot League play for the third time in program history. Navy received the No. 1 seed for the Patriot League Tournament and carried a 12-match winning streak into the tournament championship match, where the Mids fell to Boston University. Three Midshipmen, Logan Antill, Amanda Keller and Kristine Rojo, earned All-Patriot League Second-Team Honors. In 2013-14 Pedergnana helped Navy to a 21-8 overall record and the program's fourth straight 20-win season. Navy advanced to the Patriot League Semifinals and a 7-0 sweep of Loyola on April 13 gave Navy's its 100th program win in just five varsity seasons. Three Midshipmen earned All-Patriot League honors in 2013-14 with senior Erin Snook being named to the all-league first team. Senior captain Darien Sears and sophomore Sam Droop were both selected to the all-league second team. Additionally, sophomore Mikaela Carlson was named to the Patriot League All-Academic Team. She became the first Navy women's tennis player to earn academic all-league honors. In 2012-13, with their first full recruiting class serving as the team's leaders as seniors, the squad compiled a 25-5 record, setting a school record for wins. After starting the year with a 2-3 record, the Midshipmen ran off a school-record 17 straight wins and would finish the year by winning 23 of its last 25 matches. The Midshipmen reached the Patriot League Tournament finals for the third straight year and finished the year ranked 10th in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) Atlantic region rankings. Three players earned all-Patriot League accolades, including 2013 grad Emani Decquir, who was honored as Navy's first major award winner, the Patriot League Player of the Year. Pedergnana has been instrumental in Navy's success over the last six years, serving as a dynamic recruiter and helping Navy land several highly-regarded classes according to TennisRecruiting.net. She played a vital role in Navy's second class, which was ranked as the 25th-best mid-major recruiting class in the country. Pedergnana joined head coach Keith Puryear as they led Navy through the transition from becoming a club power to a force on the Patriot League level. Pedergnana became an assistant coach at UMBC in the fall of 2006 after four outstanding years on the courts for the Retrievers. The duo of Puryear and Pedergnana earned America East Coaching Staff of the Year honors for both men's and women's tennis in the 2006-07 campaigns after leading the men's team to their first America East Championship and the women's team to the conference finals. Pedergnana put together an outstanding four-year career on the tennis courts for the Retrievers. As a freshman, Pedergnana won 27 matches and was named all-Northeast Conference in the Northeast Conference. She earned all-America East honors in 2004 and gradually rose to the top of the UMBC "ladder" and played at number one singles during her junior and senior seasons. As a senior, she won her 100th career match in UMBC's most impressive win of the year, a 4-3 triumph over Army. The native of Queens, N.Y., won her last eleven singles matches of the season and finished the campaign with an impressive 13-4 record. At the junior level, Pedergnana was ranked as high as fifth in the nation in doubles, was in the top 50 in the nation in singles and in the top five in the Eastern section. She won a bronze ball at the 2002 Winter Super Nationals and a silver ball at the 2006 USTA National Women's Open Indoor Championship in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., both in doubles competition. Pedergnana was named one of two Outstanding Senior Female Athletes of the Year at the 2006 UMBC Varsity Awards ceremony. Pedergnana is a member of the UMBC Athletic Hall of Fame (Class of 2014) and the Red & Blue Terrier Ring of Honor (Class of 2014) of her high school, St. Francis Prep. Pedergnana graduated from UMBC with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 2006 and also received a master's degree in adolescent and sports psychology in 2010. She resides in Annapolis, Md.