Conference Highlights
2016, 2017 Regular Season Big 12 Champions
Reached Big 12 Tournament Finals 4 of the last 5 years
Post Season Highlights
2016 NCAA Runner-Up
2017 NCAA Quarterfinals
3 Straight Sweet 16
6 Straight NCAA Tournament Appearances
3 Straight Years Top 10
Tournament Highlights
2015- Sweet 16
2016- NCAA Finals
2017- Quarterfinals
Hosted NCAA First and Second Rounds 2015-2018
Will Host 2020 NCAA Championships
Individual Achievements
Viktoriya Lushkova
-3 Time All American (2014,2015, 2017)
-Big 12 Player of the Year
-Highest Rankings (Singles #6, Doubles #3)
- ITA Central Region Senior Player of the Year
Katarina Adamovic
- 2016 NCAA Quarterfinalist, NCAA Tournament MVP
- Two career Pro Circuit Titles
Vladica Babic
- 2017 Doubles Ranking of #5
- 3 Time All Big 12 Honors
Coaching Achievements
CHRIS YOUNG-
Coach Young just completed his 9th season at the helm of the Oklahoma State women's tennis program, which was also his 16th season as a head coach. A native of Norman, Okla., Young has compiled a career record of 360 wins during his career, with 160 wins coming in his 9 seasons as the head coach at Oklahoma State. Young is a 4 time Regional Coach of the Year, including 2015 where he led the Cowgirls to a program high ranking of #8 in the country and hosted the NCAA first and second rounds for the first time in program history. A Four time conference coach of the Year, Young has turned the Cowgirls into a national contender as the Cowgirls finished as the 2016 NCAA Runner Up after winning both the Big 12 Regular Season and Tournament Titles. In 2017, the Cowgirls again won the Big 12 Regular Season and made the NCAA Quarterfinals, winning 25 matches for a second consecutive season. During the last 5 years, only one program in college tennis has won more matches than the Cowgirls.
Henner Nehles- Nehles has been heralded as one of the top developmental coaches in tennis, serving as coach for professional stars such as Jelena Jankovic and Sam Querrey.
Coming to Stillwater following a three-year stint as the women's tennis national coach for the United States Tennis Association, Nehles has racked up a number of accolades during his coaching career. In 2016, he was named the 2016 Team USA Developmental Coach of the Year by the USTA.
In 2016, Nehles coached young tennis standout Kayla Day to a world No. 1 junior ranking after winning the girls' singles title and reaching the doubles final at the U.S. Open. As a pro, Day reached a career high singles ranking of No. 122 in 2017.
Recently, he worked with Amanda Anisimova, who won the U.S. Open Juniors and reached the No. 1 world junior ranking as well before attaining a career-high singles ranking of No. 126 last fall. Nehles also assisted in coaching former Eddie Herr Girls' 18's champion Kylie McKenzie and Easter Bowl Girls' 18's champion Alexandra Sanford.
Nehles has also served as a USTA faculty coach and the director and head coach of the USTA Regional Training Center. He spent a season in 2006 as the assistant women's tennis coach at UNLV.
"Many important factors went into the equation that resulted in Stillwater becoming my family's long-term home, however, the overwhelming factor was, and is, helping our Cowgirls to win NCAA Championships," Nehles said. "Chris has transformed OSU into a national tennis powerhouse and I'm very grateful to have the opportunity to work under him, and work with him, using my experience of coaching the 2016 and 2017 US Open Girl's Champions, a former Women's World #1, a Top 20 ATP player, and many other outstanding players."
I know the intricate process and passion that it takes to develop next-gen players and not only am I committed to that process, I am confident that we will give our Cowgirls every developmental 'secret' possessed by few in the game today."
