Steve Krulevitz Named Varsity Tennis Head Coach
Steve Krulevitz, a touring professional in the 1970s and 1980s and a former Davis Cup player and coach for Israel, has been named Gilman’s varsity tennis coach. Krulevitz takes over for Jim Busick, who announced his retirement at the end of the 2010–11 school year after 30 years at Gilman and 29 as varsity tennis coach. Krulevitz has been the president and director of the Steve Krulevitz Tennis Program for the past 27 years, teaching and mentoring hundreds of students, including former Gilman standout Reed Cordish ‘92. He also assisted Busick with the Gilman varsity team in each of the past two seasons. A touring professional from 1974–1984, Krulevitz retired from professional tennis with 22 singles and four doubles titles. He reached the third round at Wimbledon and the French Open in 1976 and at the Australian Open in 1979. He was ranked as high as No. 42 in the world in singles and finished among the top 100 players in the world for nine consecutive years. Krulevitz won the Pac 10 championship and earned All-America honors as a collegiate player at UCLA, where he graduated in 1973. As a junior player, he was ranked No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic region and won the Maryland State men’s championship at the age of 15. As a student at Park School, he won the MSA singles championship four years in a row. He also was the coach for Peruvian star Jaime Yzaga, who reached the Top 20 in the world singles rankings in the late 1980s.
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