GIRLS TENNIS

Kathryn Kehoe started her tennis coaching career at Greenhills School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for the girls inaugural season, soon after Title IX was enacted. In Coach Kehoe’s first year of coaching the Greenhills girls team was runner-up at the state level end of the year tournament and remained dominant in their assigned class throughout her tenure. Coach Kehoe left coaching while attending graduate school only to return as the Head Coach at Macalester College in St Paul Minnesota, from 1995-1997. She was awarded the Coach of Year in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) in 1997. Soon after, she moved to north Florida as an assistant professor at Jacksonville University and then a Research Fellow at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville. Her return to coaching was in 2013 when she started a JV tennis program at Ponte Vedra High School. She was named the Sharks head girls varsity coach in 2016. Since taking responsibility for the program, the Sharks have earned a spot in the FHSAA state tournament in 80% of the seasons played . Her focus as a tennis coach is to develop a team atmosphere in a sport that is played by individuals. Players are trained to maximize skills they bring to the court and encouraged to focus on factors they can control. Coach Kehoe subscribes to the philosophy that the mental game is extremely important in tennis because this significantly influences a player’s performance especially during crucial moments.