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Traci Green
| Title: | Head Coach of Women's Tennis |
| Organization: | W Tennis |
| Phone Number: | (617) 495-3704 |
| Email Address: | tgreen@fas.harvard.edu |
| College: | Florida 2000 |
| Experience: | Fifth Season |
Green enters her fifth season in 2011-12 after taking over the program July 1, 2007.
In just a few seasons at Harvard, Traci Green has already
organized one of the biggest turnarounds in program history and
guided the Crimson to the Ivy League title.
Under her guidance, the Crimson completed the biggest turnaround
in 35 years of Harvard women's tennis. After finishing 2-17 and 2-5
in the Ivy League in 2008, Green led Harvard to a 13-8 overall
record and a 6-1 finish in the Ivies to win the programs 18th Ivy
League title in 2009. In the process, Green became the first
African-American coach at Harvard to win an Ivy League title. She
coached five All-Ivy selections in 2009, including a unanimous
player of the year, Beier Ko.
In her third season with the Crimson, the team finished with a 14-8 overall record and a 6-1 mark in Ivy League play, as Harvard earned an at-large bid to the 2010 NCAA Championships. Hideko Tachibana was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, while three other players earned All-Ivy honors. Harvard returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2006.
Injuries and illness slowed the Crimson early in Green's fourth
season at the helm, but the team remained resilient under her
guidance and finished with an even 9-9 record and No. 63 national
ranking. Holly Cao played to a 22-3 record in singles, garnering
first-team All-Ivy League honors and was selected as an alternate
for the NCAA singles tournament. The young doubles pair of
Tachibana and Norton were selected to the All-Ivy League doubles
first-team as well following a stellar spring.
The Philadelphia native came to Harvard after three years as head
coach at Temple, where she orchestrated a complete turnaround of a
program that went 4-15 prior to her arrival. Her second season saw
the Owls register their first winning record since the 1999-2000
campaign, while her 2006-07 team went 16-4 overall, 8-1 in the
Atlantic 10 Conference and reached the championship match of the
A-10 tournament. Temple was ranked as high as No. 85 in the
NCAA/Intercollegiate Tennis Association ratings in 2007, marking
the first time that the Owls had achieved a national rank. Her team
defeated three nationally ranked opponents and saw five players
achieve all-conference status. Green's head coaching record at
Temple was 34-28.
Before taking over as Temple's head coach, Green spent two years
as an assistant with the Owls, helping the program to the 2003
Atlantic 10 championship and the school's first NCAA tournament
appearance.
Green's success as a coach follows a highly successful career as
an undergraduate at the University of Florida. She was a member of
the Gators' 1998 NCAA championship team and was ranked as high as
No. 5 nationally in doubles and No. 12 in singles during the
1999-2000 season. Her teams won two ITA national indoor
championships (1997, 1999) and ranks among Florida's career leaders
in singles and doubles wins. Green was a three-time first-team
All-Southeastern Conference selection in both singles and
doubles.
In addition to her coaching, Green also served as an adjunct
faculty member in the Temple University College of Education, where
she taught courses in the department of kinesiology. She continues
to serve as a tennis coordinator and is an advisory board member of
the Black Women in Sport Foundation and is active with the USTA
High Performance Coaching Program.
Green is a 2000 graduate of Florida with a bachelor's degree in
telecommunications and a minor in education. She went on to earn a
master's degree in sports administration from Temple in 2004 and
has begun work toward a doctorate in education administration.
Green is just the eighth person to serve as Harvard's women's
tennis coach. She inherited a Crimson program that had won 17 Ivy
League championships, before winning its 18th in 2009. She owns an
overall career coaching record of 63-60.









