Coaching Staff
Dave
Borelli
Fourth Season | Two-Time MWC Champs (2008, 2009) | 42-32 at TCU; 416-107 Overall (.795) in 21 Seasons Dave Borelli enters his fourth season leading the TCU men’s tennis program after serving the previous four years as coach of the TCU women’s squad. The Horned Frog head coach has compiled a 416-107 overall record in 21 seasons at the college level, including a 42-32 mark in his current stint with the TCU men’s program.
Cosmin Cotet, who concluded the season ranked as the ITA’s No. 30 singles player, finished his college career as the MWC’s Co-Player of the Year, while Emanu Brighiu and Kriegler Brink joined him on the All-MWC Singles Team. Brink paired with Cotet to both advance to compete at the NCAA Championships and be named to the All-MWC Doubles Team.
Borelli has led the Frog men to the Mountain West Conference regular season championship each of the past two years, as well as the MWC tournament title in 2008.
In Borelli’s first season with the men’s program, the Frogs earned three All-MWC selections, while Cotet ended the season ranked No. 93 in singles play. Cotet and Brink also finished the year ranked No. 44 in doubles.
TCU faced one of the nation’s toughest schedules a season ago featuring 19 of 24 matches against nationally ranked opponents. Despite a rough start, the Frogs rallied to win the seventh regular-season conference title in program history. Borelli’s squad followed up its MWC crown by reaching the NCAA Championships for the second consecutive season, as well as the 18th time in 19 years. The Frogs finished the season No. 38 in the ITA national team rankings. Highlighting the regular season was a Feb. 21 road win at No. 17 Tulsa, while the Frogs finished with a league-high five All-Mountain West Conference selections—three in singles (Emanuel Brighiu, Kriegler Brink and Slah Mbarek) and two in doubles (Brink/Mbarek and Brighiu/Adrian Simon). Brighiu and Simon concluded the spring in the NCAA Doubles Championships. The Frogs made major strides in Borelli’s second season, as he guided one of the nation’s youngest teams to a bounce-back season featuring a pair of conference titles and NCAA Regionals appearance in 2008. The squad, which finished the season with a 20-8 record and No. 34 final ITA rating, claimed both the Mountain West Conference regular season and tournament championships. In addition to earning his 400th career win during a March road victory over UNLV, Borelli’s 2008 Frogs piled up several other individual honors to go with the squad’s team achievements.
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Borelli served as the men’s professional tour coach for the USTA before arriving at TCU. He was in charge of the rookie pro program for USA player development. Several of his players have been ranked in the top100 in the world, including 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist Mardy Fish, Robby Ginepri, Brian Vahaly and Jeff Morrison (Florida, 1999) and Alex Kim (Stanford, 2000) on the pro tour. Brandon Hawk, a former No. 1 player at Texas and All-American, was also coached by Borelli. In addition to successfully working with the men’s side of tennis, Borelli also has experienced a Hall of Fame career coaching women’s tennis. His 18-year mark coaching in the women’s college ranks, which includes seven national championships with USC, is 374-75 (.833). It was announced in February that he will be inducted into the Women’s intercollegate Tennis Hall of Fame in November 2010. With the TCU women, Borelli posted a 72-30 record. Over the four-year period, the team progressed from a ranking of No. 56 in 2003 to its No. 15 position in 2006. Borelli was named Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Southwest Region Coach of the Year and Conference USA Coach of the Year in 2005 and Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year in 2006. Additionally, Borelli was named the NCAA National Collegiate Coach of the Year in 1981.
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