ron bohrnstedt
HEAD MEN'S
TENNIS COACH
Ron
Bohrnstedt is entering his fourth season as the head coach of the
men's tennis program at Rollins. In his short time with the
Tars, he has elevated the program into the elite ranks of Division
II tennis.
Bohrnstedt's
2003-2004 team had one of the most successful seasons in the history
of the program at Rollins. The Tars won the Sunshine State Conference
that season and advanced all the way to the semi-finals of the NCAA
tournament. The team finished ranked fourth in the nation with
a 24-5 record. He coached two players to top-25 finishes with
Carlos Custodio (the SSC Player of the Year that year) ranked second
in NCAA Division II and Mark Thompson ranked seventh.
Last
season the team had another good showing finishing 17-7 overall and
4-2 in Sunshine State Conference play which placed them at third.
Matt Umbers and Jonathon Gomez both received recognition for their
excellent play nder Bohrnstedt. The pair took home first team
All-SSC awards as a doubles pair, and in singles play Umbers took
1st team honors and Gomez took honorable mention. Nationally,
Umbers ranked number ten in the country.
In
Bohrnstedt's debut season at the helm the Tars went 13-9 and made
it to the NCAA Championships where they lost to powerhouse West Florida.
Rollins finished the 2002-03 season with a national ranking of 15th.
A
native of Redlands, California and a graduate of UCLA, Bohrnstedt
was a three year letterman for the Bruins and was a member of two
conference championships and three straight NCAA Division I runner-up
finishes. He competed as a professional tennis player from 1970-75
and was ranked by the USTA in men's singles for three years. His biggest
professional victory was over Jimmy Connors at the Palm Springs (CA)
Invitational.
After
his playing career, he served as Director of Tennis at Sawgrass Tennis
Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida for three years. Bohrnstedt then
spent 24 years as the Director of Tennis at The Greenbrier Hotel in
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia before moving to Florida in 1999.
During his tenure at Greenbrier, he helped the five-star, five-diamond
property earn recognition as a U.S. Top Ten Tennis Resort by Tennis
Magazine. His staff was also rated as a U.S. Top Five Resort Instructional
Staff by Tennis Magazine.
An
active volunteer with the USTA for 23 years, Bohrnstedt was elected
for two terms as a member of the USTA Board of Directors, concluding
in December of 2002. He is Past President of the USTA Mid-Atlantic
Section and spent six years as Vice Chairman of the Davis Cup Committee.
Bohrnstedt
and his wife, Cheri, are the parents of three children and currently
reside in Winter Park. Two of his children, Ry and Alexis, attended
Rollins. Ry was a two-year member of the Rollins tennis team.
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