Yaroshuk-Tews Inducted Into Dade County Tennis Hall of Fame
March 31, 2008
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. – University of Miami head women’s tennis coach Paige Yaroshuk-Tews was one of two inductees into the Dade County Tennis Hall of Fame honored Monday afternoon inside the Tennis Center at Crandon Park’s Stadium Court at the 2008 Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne.
Yaroshuk-Tews, currently in her seventh season a the helm of UM’s women’s tennis program, needs just three more wins to surpass Ian Duvenhage’s 131 career wins mark to become the school’s all-time winningest coach. With 118 wins coming into the 2008 season, Yaroshuk-Tews has led UM to 11 wins so far this spring and needs just two wins to tie and three to pass Duvenhage’s mark with at least four regular season matches remaining.
Joining her in the Dade County Tennis Hall of Fame class this year was the late Jeff Allen, the former tennis director at the Coral Oaks Tennis Club.
UM has reached at least the second round of the NCAA tournament each of Yaroshuk-Tews’ six seasons atop the program. After back-to-back second round NCAA exits her first two seasons as head coach, UM has reached the NCAA quarterfinals three of the last four seasons, including an NCAA finals appearance in 2006, the program’s first since 1985. Last season, Yaroshuk-Tews coached two-time ITA Player-of-the-Year Audra Cohen to Miami’s first NCAA singles championship.
In her playing days, Yaroshuk-Tews was a four-year letterwinner at UCLA and two-time NCAA All-American in both singles and doubles play. During her senior season, Yaroshuk-Tews won the PAC-10 Indoor and Outdoor Doubles Championships with partner Keri Phebus on the way to All-PAC-10 honors in both singles and doubles. She graduated from UCLA in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology while earning PAC-10 Academic honors.
It is the 26th year of the inductions for the Dade County Tennis Hall of Fame. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Mary Joe Fernandez , current USTA National men’s tennis coach and former UM head coach Jay Berger and former UM graduate and four-time U.S. doubles champion Gardnar Mulloy are among those already enshrined in the county’s hall of fame.
