SFA Tennis Hires New Assistant Coach
8/23/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Aug. 23, 2011
NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin women's tennis team added Stephanie Wooten as an new assistant coach announced head coach Patrick Sullivan Tuesday afternoon.
Wooten comes to SFA from Lee College, where she served as the head coach and led the Rebels to a runner-up team finish in 2011 NJCAA Championships. The Rebels finished only four points shy of the national title. Wooten and the Rebels led the nation in All-Americans placing three of its players on the NJCAA D1 All-America squad.
"We had a highly-touted recruiting 2011 class, but the biggest recruiting victory of all might have been getting Stephanie to SFA," Sullivan said. "Her outstanding résumé as both a player and a coach make her qualified to be an assistant at any school in the country and I'm thrilled that she chose to come to Nacogdoches."
Prior to her coaching experience, Wooten, a native of Crandall, was a four-time Texas Class 3A state champion and was named the Dallas Morning News High School Player of the Year in both 2002 and 2004. Wooten was a four-year letterman at Purdue, where she played #1 singles and doubles and posted 116 combined wins during her career. During her senior season in 2009 she recorded 41 wins, and placed sixth on Purdue's all-time single-season doubles' wins list.
"Her experience at Lee shows that she is a more than capable leader and with so many new faces on the roster, having what amounts to another head coach on staff is a huge bonus for both myself and the team," said Sullivan. "What impresses me the most about Stephanie is how highly all of her former coaches and players speak of her, which is a really rare thing in a sport where great success and a great reputation are most often mutually exclusive. I am very excited to have her on board and can't wait to get our season started."
-SFA-
