115 Intercollegiate Athletics Building | 949-824-6960 | medles@uci.edu
Head Coach Mike Edles |
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Mike Edles enters his 17th season as head coach of the Anteaters. Coach Edles and UC Irvine returned to the Big West Tournament Final for the fifth straight season with a 16-8 record. For Coach Edles, it was his 12th winning season as the coach of the Anteaters. In the 2010 season, he was named ITA/Southwest Region Coach of the Year and Big West Conference Coach of the Year. The 2010 women's tennis team earned their first ever Big West Tournament title and second trip to the NCAA Tournament. As head coach of the Anteaters,
Edles has led his teams to wins over nationally ranked programs
such as San Diego State, Pepperdine, and Long Beach State. In 2007,
UCI went into the Big West Championship with a perfect 8-0 record
and at one point was ranked as high as No. 28 in the nation. That
same year, UCI earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division I
Women's Tennis Championship, a first for the Big West Conference.
Edles has coached players who have earned accolades such as Big
West Player of the Year, Big West Freshman of the Year,
Intercollegiate Tennis Association West Region Senior Player of the
Year as well as numerous All-Big West selections. He has been named
Wilson/ITA West Region Coach of the Year, four-time Big West
Conference Coach of the Year, and has lead several teams to
year-end national rankings.
Edles was a four-year player for
the Anteater tennis team from 1975-79, earning NCAA All-America
honors in singles and doubles in 1977, when UCI won the NCAA
Division II championship. He moved into the coaching ranks
following his graduation from UCI in 1979 with a B.A. degree in
economics. He served as head men's tennis coach at Cal State
Bakersfield from 1979-82, leading that school to California
Collegiate Athletic Association championships in 1981 and
1982.
He was then head men's tennis
coach at Chapman University from 1982-88, guiding the Panthers to
four CCAA titles and NCAA Division II championships in 1985, 1987
and 1988. Edles was named NCAA Division II Coach of the Year in
1986 and 1988.
From 1988-92, he served as head
men's tennis coach at Cal State Hayward collecting a Northern
California Athletic Conference championship in 1991. Edles was the
head women's coach at Boise State from 1992-95, leading the Broncos
to their first-ever Big Sky Conference championship in that sport
in 1995, when he was named conference coach of the year. He was
42-26 overall while at Boise State.
He served as assistant coach for
the men's and women's tennis teams in 1996-97 at the University of
Hawaii, where his wife, Laura, was a sociology professor. The
Edles' have two children, Benson (22) and Eleanor (19).
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The Edles File
Contact Coach EdlesEmail: medles@uci.edu | Phone: 949-824-6960 Office: IAB 115 |
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Assistant Coach Dianne Matias |
The Matias File
Contact Coach MatiasPhone: 949-824-2166 Office: IAB 118 |
Assistant Coach Aaron Yovan |
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Aaron Yovan comes to UC Irvine women's tennis from Max Performance Tenni, a company he runs that specializes in coaching tennis clinics, since August 2007. Yovan played 3 years at #1 ranked UCLA as part of a three-time Pac 10 team champion. He finished up his college career as the #1 in singles and doubles at UCI for the 2006-2007 season. He went 13-10 in singles and a combined 16-6 in doubles earning All-Big West First Team honors in singles and All-Big West Second Team honors in doubles. Following his UCI career, Yovan qualified for pro tournaments around the country competing against former top 10 players in the world. He is a USPTA certified coach and has been teaching for 7
years. Yovan was also a very decorated player coming out of high school
as a National Singles Champion and National Doubles Champion.
He was the #1 Doubles player in the Country in the 16s, #8 Singles
player in the country in the 16s, and #1 varsity singles all 4
years at University High School where he also made 4 CIF
finals appearances winning 3 straight CIF titles. Yovan admires Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras, and enjoys listening to music and playing the guitar. |
The Yovan File
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