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TTerry Ann Zawacki-Woods, now in her eighth year at the helm for the Hokies, became the seventh women’s tennis coach at Virginia Tech on September 8, 2003.
Last year, Zawacki-Woods guided a young team to a 10-13 record in Tech’s sixth season in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Tech has had eight nationally-ranked players in her tenure, 14 ITA Scholar-Athletes,15 players named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll and three selected to the All-ACC Academic Women’s Tennis team. In Tech’s brief ACC history, the Hokies have had four players named to the All-conference team. Tech concluded the 2009-10 season with Yasmin Hamza/Holly Johnson nationally ranked in doubles while Christin Newman, Martha Blakely and Hamza all earned Atlantic Region rankings along with three doubles teams. The Tech women’s tennis team was also the recipient of the 2007 ACC Sportsmanship Award.
Martha Blakely was named to the 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large Third Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Zawacki-Woods currently serves on the NCAA Women’s Tennis Committee and the ITA Operations Committee.
Prior to coming to Tech, Zawacki-Woods served as head coach at Charlotte for three years. In 2001, her first year at Charlotte, the 49ers received the program’s first-ever national ranking of No. 59 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings.
Before assuming her position at Charlotte, Zawacki-Woods served as an assistant coach at Michigan for three years, helping the Wolverines to a second place finish in the Big Ten Conference in 1998 in addition to producing two Big Ten Sportswomen of the Year.
As a player, Zawacki-Woods was a two-time All-American at Wake Forest and was named to the ACC’s 50th Anniversary Team. She was the first tennis player at Wake Forest to be named All-ACC for four years and the first to compete in the NCAA singles tournament. As the top player for the Demon Deacons all four years, Zawacki-Woods was named the 1993 Southeast Region Rookie of the Year and the 1996 Southeast Senior of the Year. She was the first Wake Forest player to be nationally-ranked all four years, achieving a top ranking of sixth in the nation. Zawacki-Woods led the Demon Deacons to three ACC finals and three top 15 finishes nationally.
Following her collegiate career, Zawacki-Woods turned professional and faced some of the top players in the world, including Monica Seles, Jennifer Capriati and Chanda Rubin.
A native of Union, N.J., Zawacki-Woods and her husband, Bill, live in Christiansburg. The couple has one child, Kirsten, who is three years-old.
