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Podcast: Intercollegiate Tennis Association
Episode: Paving Your Own Coaching Pathway
Description: Justin DeSanto has taken what many would consider to be an untraditional path to becoming a Division I Head Coach. In June of 2021, he was named the Head Men's Tennis Coach at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB), his first head Coaching job, after having worked his way up from a Volunteer coach with the Yale women's team to an Assistant Coach at NCAA Division III powerhouse Williams College followed by five seasons as an Assistant for the Wichita State men's team.Â
All of this with zero college tennis playing experience! As a matter of fact, Justin did...