Andrew Rueb
College: Harvard 1995
Title: Assistant Coach
Experience: Second Season
Phone: (617) 495-2695
Andrew Rueb, a two-time Ivy
League player of the year and former Harvard tennis captain,
returned to Harvard in September 2007 to serve as the assistant
coach under Dave Fish '72. Rueb, who finished his second stint as a
coach for the Crimson in 2008-09, has helped guide Harvard to a
30-17 record and has coached seven All-Ivy selections in
singles and four All-Ivy duos in doubles in his three seasons.
He also led the Crimson to the NCAA Tournament in 2008.
Andrew was a standout for the Crimson, playing No. 1 singles and
doubles during his career. He was twice voted the Ivy League Player
of the Year in 1993 and 1995 and competed at the NCAA tournament
three times. He was a four-time first-team All-Ivy recipient, twice
in singles and twice in doubles. Academically, he received the
prestigious John Reardon Award for Harvard's Scholar-Athlete of the
year in 1995.
Rueb spent time as a journeyman on the professional tennis
circuit and published an article of his travels in Tennis Week
Magazine and has blogged for the New York Times about tennis. Some
of his professional highlights on the ATP tour included doubles
main draw at Wimbledon in 1997 and the U.S. Open singles qualifiers
in 1998.
Rueb earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Harvard
College, a Master's degree from both Harvard Divinity School and
Boston University in religion and literature. Before that he
served as a teaching assistant for Dr. Robert Coles' Harvard
course, "The Literature of Social Reflection." He is
currently an academic advisor to undergraduates and has also served
as a freshman proctor.
Rueb was a volunteer assistant for Harvard during the 2004-05
and 2005-06 campaigns. Before college coaching in 2000, Andrew
worked along side Tenacity founders Andy Crane and Ned Eames to
establish the first after-school program in Boston. Later, he was
the Director of Public Relations for the Boston Lobsters, the World
Team Tennis franchise in their first year back in Boston under
owner Bahar Uttam.