Andrew McGlashen begins his first season as the head coach of the IUP women's tennis program in 2023-24.
He was officially hired in July 2023. McGlashen becomes the sixth head coach in the program’s history, which dates back to 1970. A former collegiate tennis player with instructing and coaching experience, McGlashen brings no shortage of experience and knowledge across various levels of the sport.
McGlashen arrives in Indiana following a two-year stint as the head men’s and women’s tennis coach at Cardinal Stritch (NAIA) in Wisconsin. A two-time Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) Coach of the Year, McGlashen helped lead the nationally-ranked tennis programs to a combined three conference championships during his time at Cardinal Stritch.
Originally raised in the United Kingdom, McGlashen recruited 12 international student-athletes to Stritch over two years, helping elevate the men’s tennis program up to eighth nationally in the NAIA. Serving as the conference chair for 2022-23, McGlashen oversaw day-to-day functions of the program, practice planning and oversight of a graduate assistant.
Prior to his first head coaching stint, McGlashen worked for seven years (2014-21) as head tennis professional and assistant director at the Chira Tennis Academy in San Diego. While there, he designed lesson plans for high performance juniors, also running group practices for those juniors and adults. He helped build the academy into the largest tennis academy in San Diego with over 350 players.
He spent less than a year as a full-time tennis coach at the Hitters Sportsplex in Madison, Wisconsin in 2014.
McGlashen began his coaching career as an assistant at Wisconsin-Whitewater, his alma mater, where he served as the team’s captain during his time as a student-athlete. From 2010-2013, he was a part of three straight Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (WIAC) championships as a player. He attended Sutton Tennis Academy, one of the top academies in the U.K., while playing at a top-50 national level.
He earned a bachelor’s in liberal studies with an emphasis in business and a minor in coaching from UWW in 2013.
