Coach Jayson Wiseman chats on the upcoming Mac Season. He also discusses his coaching philosophy and how he stay positive during these tough times. This is a must watch 🙂
Coach Jason’s Bio:
The 2020-21 season will be Jayson Wiseman’s third year as the Head Women’s Tennis coach at Eastern Michigan University.
Before COVID-19 ultimately cut the 2019-20 season short, Wiseman was able to coach the team to 10 wins. That marked the first time the program had back-to-back 10-win seasons since the 2005-06, 2006-07 campaigns.
In his second season, Wiseman led the Eagles to the fifth-seed in the 2018 Mid-American Conference Tournament with a 16-10 overall record before the program was suspended at the end of 2017-18 academic year.
Wiseman has made the steady climb up the ranks in the tennis coaching circuit, working at the high school, club, and now collegiate levels. In total, he has eight years of NCAA Division I tennis experience with stops at EMU, the University of Evansville, Wright State University, and Bowling Green State University.
In the 2017-18 season, Wiseman oversaw a 10-game improvement in the win column from just six in 2016-17 to 16 in 2017-18. Under his tutelage, then-senior Ani Gogvadze became the first Eagle to collect First Team All-MAC honors since 2015, putting together a stellar 20-3 record in duals that included winning her first 16 matches of the season.
Before his arrival in Ypsilanti, Wiseman turned around the Evansville program in two seasons, going from eight wins in 2015-16 to 17 in 2016-17. Recruiting was the biggest reason for Wiseman’s turnaround, as Evansville’s 2016 recruiting class was ranked eighth in the mid-majors and 33rd nationally.
After going winless in the Missouri Valley Conference play during his inaugural season, Wiseman led Evansville to a second-place finish in the MVC with a 5-2 record the following year. For their efforts, Diana Tkachenko earned the league’s Freshman of the Year award while Chieko Yamada earned a nod on the All-Select Team. Tkachenko completed a spectacular freshman campaign at UE, as she went 31-8 overall and 6-1 in conference play, and earned a final ITA regional ranking of No. 20. Slotted at No. 1 singles for the Purple Aces in 2016-17, Yamada won 18 matches while going an impressive 4-3 in conference matches in the top spot. In the fall of 2017 sophomore Andrea Pascual-Larrinaga gained an ITA national ranking of No. 117, the program’s first in 20 years.
Wiseman made his way to Evansville from Wright State where he was an assistant coach for the Raiders in 2015. He worked with both the men’s and women’s squads at WSU, with the women’s team achieving the most dual match victories of any team in the Horizon League.
From 2005-15, he was the sole proprietor and head professional of his own tennis services company. In that time, he also worked at Stone Oak, Shadow Valley and Toledo Tennis Clubs, serving as an assistant head tennis professional.
He coached at the high school level from 2008-11, leading the boys and girls tennis teams at Sylvania (Ohio) Southview Senior High School. In his stint there, he coached the school’s first four State Tournament participants since 1995 and was named the 2009 Coach of the Year, while leading the girls’ team to its first league championship.
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