Rolando Vargas

Rolando Vargas is the head tennis coach for the Troy Trojans men's tennis team.^[1] He was previously the head coach of the Radford Highlanders men's tennis team in 2018, as well the head coach for the AUM Warhawks men's and women's tennis teams.

Vargas is a graduate of Troy University and former player for the Trojans. He played professionally after graduating from college, achieving a career-high ATP ranking of #839.

In 2021, he led the Troy Trojans to a Conference high 20-4 record finishing with a #8 ranking in the Southern region.

Although the 2019-20 season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vargas' squad continued to show improvement. Under Vargas' leadership, the Trojans posted an 11-4 overall record and ended the season on a six-match winning streak.

In his first season in 2018-19, he guided his squad to 17 wins, the most since the program won 25 during the 2014-15 season.

Vargas spent one season as the head coach at Radford, where he led the Highlanders to a four-win improvement from the year prior.

While Vargas was head coach of both men's and women's teams at AUM during the 2017 season, he led both programs to national and regional rankings while playing its first full NCAA Division II schedule as the men ranked 13th and the women 19th nationally.

Previously, he took his teams to the NAIA National Tournament every season finishing fifth-place or better every year. The highlight while coaching the men's team was leading them to the NAIA Finals. Likewise, Vargas was able to lead the women's team to four NAIA national championships and finished with a career record of 150-35.

Vargas coached 58 NAIA All-Americans, 30 ITA All-Americans and 10 conference players of the year.

In 2013, he had his teams ranked #1 in the Nation and finished #1 in singles and doubles with both men’s and women’s. Furthermore, he had players finish in the ITA All-Star team (best players in College and all Divisions) in 4 different years as the best ranked player at the end of the year automatically qualified.

In 2011, he won his first National Championship with only five players on the roster.

He is a certified USPTA Elite Professional and has been a member since 2009.

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