Marc Walters
September 01, 2008 01:35 PM | General
Head Coach
Marc.Walters@mail.wvu.edu
(304) 293-9882
Marc Walters enters his fourth season as head coach of the West Virginia University tennis team.
A native of Morgantown, W.Va., Walters has 16 years of collegiate head coaching experience and a 431-235 (.647) career-coaching record. He has posted seven 20-plus win seasons and has made five NCAA appearances throughout his career.
Walters’ efforts to push his athletes academically paid off last summer when the Mountaineers were one of only three teams honored as a 2009 All-Academic Team by the International Tennis Association (ITA).
Walters was nationally recognized in 2008 when he was awarded the United States Tennis Association/International Tennis Association (USTA/ITA) Community Service Award for Development. The annual award, which is given to an ITA coach who has done an outstanding job implementing recreational tennis programs on campus in an effort to grow participation in the sport, marks the second time Walters received the honor. He was first recognized in 1996.
Walters coached his team to its third-straight BIG EAST Championship appearance in the 2008-09 season, while three of his players posted 20-win seasons.
In the fall of 2008, his team achieved an overall team grade point average of 3.4.
In 2007-08, Walters enjoyed a successful second season and guided five players to 20-plus wins apiece. The Mountaineers finished with a 15-10 overall mark, including an impressive 5-4 record in the competitive BIG EAST Conference.
Walters previously served as head coach of the men’s and women’s programs at Barton College in Wilson, N.C., from 1999-2006. There, two of his teams qualified for NCAA Regionals and he guided eight teams to ITA national rankings. He guided the women’s team to the 2004 CVAC championship; for his efforts he was named conference coach of the year.
At Barton, Walters also had nine teams that posted 3.2 or better combined GPAs. All told, he has coached 32 all-conference players at Barton, including three freshmen of the year, 20 CVAC Players of the Week, four nationally ranked players and nine regionally ranked players.
Prior to his tenure at Barton, Walters served as head coach of the women’s and men’s tennis programs at Nebraska-Kearney from 1994-99. There, he posted a 155-78 mark in five years, which included the most wins in program history. He guided three teams to NCAA Regionals and was named RMAC Coach of the Year in 1997.
Walters was also heavily involved in junior development teaching while at Nebraska-Kearney and Barton. He prepared dozens of players for collegiate play and coached 14 high school state champions. Additionally, Walters has coached three players to the Top 100 National USTA rankings.
His developmental teaching has spilled over to community service work as well. For over 10 years, Walters has been providing guidance and growing the game of tennis in the communities surrounding WVU, Nebraska-Kearney and Barton. The USTA has given the coach grants for the past five years for his programs.
Walters played collegiately at Fairmont State where he was part of two championship teams (1984 and 1987) and was named all-conference in 1986 and 1987.
He earned his master’s degree in athletic coaching education from WVU in 1992. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Fairmont State in sociology and an associate’s degree in broadcast communications.
Walters is married to the former Jessica Willett of Austin, Texas. They have two sons, Jameson (7) and Jarrett (5), and reside in Morgantown.
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