John Kreis
Former Head Coach at University of Tennessee, Mississippi State and University of Alabama. In his over 40 years of coaching tennis, Kreis has coached players from 3 years old to 93. He has produced junior champions, college scholarship award winners, collegiate champions, and coached on the ATP tour including at center court Wimbledon.
Kreis was inducted into the Tennessee Tennis Hall of Fame in the class of 2020.
John Kreis joined Jimmy Borendame's Middle Tennessee men's tennis coaching staff as a volunteer assistant in 2017, after being hired by the Adams Tennis Complex in Murfreesboro as its first Head Tennis Professional in 2016. Since 2019 the Blue Raiders have won the Conference USA Championship each season, and gone on to compete in the NCAA Championships.
Kreis previously held the position of Director of Tennis at the Norfolk Yacht and Country Club in Norfolk, Virginia, since 2006. Along with his experience at tennis clubs and resorts, Kreis had head coaching stints at Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi State, and during that time was responsible for 8 All-Americans, 22 All-SEC performers, and 11 Academic All-SEC award winners. His 1993 Alabama squad reached the quarterfinal round of the team championship before loosing to #2 seed UCLA.
In the mid-1990s, Kreis served as chairman of the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Committee, directing the largest amateur tennis event in the world during the 1996 Championship at the University of Georgia and 1997 Championship in Los Angeles. During a five-year stint on the Committee, he helped guide the NCAA Tennis Championships from a 20-team event to a 64-team event with 8 regional qualifiers.
