Courtney Nagle - Women's Tennis Coach - University of North Carolina Athletics

Courtney Nagle

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
cmnagle@email.unc.edu
Phone:
919-962-6161

Courtney Nagle was named ITA Assistant Coach of the Year in 2017 during her third season as the top assistant coach for the highly successful North Carolina women’s tennis program. Hired in August 2014 by head coach Brian Kalbas, Nagle has long been considered one of the top coaches in the country. Since her arrival in Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels have a 94-8 dual-match record, won a pair of ACC Championships and reached the finals of the ITA National Team Championship three times, winning the title in 2015.

Before joining the UNC program, Nagle spent two seasons as the assistant women's tennis coach at the University of Iowa.

Her first season was another good one in a long line of success for this Tar Heel program. Carolina won the 2015 ITA National Team Indoor Championship in February and held on to the No. 1 ranking by the ITA for eight weeks. The Tar Heels tied a school record with a 30-2 dual match record, and won their first 27 contests of the season before finally falling in the quarterfinals of the ACC Championship.

North Carolina received the No. 2 seed in the NCAA Team Championship and advanced to the quarterfinals before losing to UCLA for the third time in the last four years. Nagle also helped guide Jamie Loeb to the 2015 NCAA Singles Championship, the first in program history.

The following season, her second in Chapel Hill, Carolina set a program record with a 31-3 dual-match record, won the 2016 ACC Championship and earned the No. 3 overall seed in the NCAA Team Championship.

The 2016-17 edition of Tar Heel tennis proved to be another outstanding campaign. Carolina was again the No. 1 seed in the ACC Championship for the fifth year in a row and made it back-to-back conference crowns with a victory over Georgia Tech in the title match. Hayley Carter repeated as ACC Player of the Year and MVP of the league’s tournament, while Sara Daavettila was named ACC Freshman of the Year.

The Tar Heels garnered the second overall seed in the NCAA Team Championship and reached the quarterfinals before bowing out to defending champion Stanford. UNC set a school record with 33 dual-match victories, while its No. 5 final ITA rankings allowed the Tar Heels to become the only school in the top 5 every season going back to 2013. Carter earned her sixth and seventh All-America honors in both singles and doubles, while Jessie Aney and Daavettila earned their first in doubles and singles, respectively.

The Hawkeyes reached as high as No. 57 in the ITA National Team Rankings and finished the 2013 season rated 8th in the Division I Midwest Regional Rankings. In her second season in 2014, Nagle helped guide Ruth Seaborne to first-team All-Big Ten honors for the second consecutive season.

Nagle spent the 2011-12 season as an assistant coach at the University of Colorado.

Prior to joining the Colorado staff, Nagle competed across the globe as a world-ranked tennis professional on the World Tennis Association (WTA) Tour where she earned World Team Tennis (WTT) Rookie of the Year honors with the Philadelphia Freedoms. She won 15 career professional doubles titles and reached a doubles ranking of No. 97.

Nagle is a 2005 graduate of the University of Oregon earning a bachelor of arts degree in human physiology with a minor in Spanish. While at Eugene and as a freshman walk-on, Nagle would later earn a full athletic scholarship where she became UO's first women's doubles All-America in school history. Nagle was also awarded the Oregon Athletics Pride recipient and was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award winner.

She was a four-year letterwinner and member of two Oregon NCAA Tournament teams in 2002 and 2004. In 2003, Nagle earned a NCAA Tournament singles berth, in addition to advancing to the NCAA Tournament doubles quarterfinals, also in 2003. She was a two-time Oregon Most Improved Player Award winner and helped Oregon to their highest ITA national ranking (No. 22) in school history.

After her collegiate career, Nagle remained in Eugene becoming the Assistant Director of the Nike Junior Tennis Camps in 2004, and later joined the Ducks coaching staff in 2005 as a volunteer assistant coach. She moved on to Princeton University from 2007-2009 in the same capacity, before returning to Eugene in 2010 to become part of the Ducks coaching staff in a volunteer role.

Nagle is affiliated with United States Professional Tennis Association (USTA) Professional Level l Certification and the Professional Tennis Registry Coaching Certification.