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Category: Associations & Organizations - Company: PTR (Professional Tennis Registry)
Chuck Kriese Named PTR College Coach of the Year

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Peggy Edwards
PO Box 4739
Hilton Head Island,
843-785-7244
peggy@ptrtennis.org

03/05/08 - Hilton Head Island, SC - - Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) presented its annual awards during the 2008 PTR International Tennis Symposium. The event, which includes 60-plus on court and classroom presentations, a tennis trade show and $25,000 Championships is being held February 16-21, 2008, at Van der Meer Shipyard Racquet Club on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Chuck Kriese, of Seneca, Georgia, was presented PTR’s Coach Jim Verdieck College Coach of the Year Award. After 33 seasons as Head Coach of Clemson University, Kriese will retire from college coaching after his camp season in August.

After just four years, his 1979 team reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever and had a #15 National ranking. He guided the Tigers to #8 the next year when they captured the 1980 ACC Championship, Clemson’s first ACC title since ‘69. They went on to win nine of the next 10 titles. He is the winningest coach in the history of the Atlantic Coast Conference with 676 wins, which puts Kriese among the top 10 winningest coaches in Division I tennis.

Overall, he captured 10 ACC Championships and has been named ACC Coach of the Year six times. He was named National Coach of the Year in 1981, the first coach in any sport to receive that honor. He was also named National Coach of the Year in 1986, and is the only coach in Clemson history to be named national Coach of the Year four times.

Coach Kriese has also coached 44 players who have played in the professional ranks, eight of whom reached the Top 100 in the ATP World rankings. Fourteen have been ranked in the Top 120 ATP rankings.

Kriese has been a US National Junior Davis Cup Coach and his players have won a US Open Title and were also finalist at the US Open on another occasion as well as finalist at the French Open and the Canadian Open.

Kriese has written five books and his Book Coaching Tennis (formerly Total Tennis Training) has been a best seller for nearly 20 years. He has also taught more than 15,000 youngsters around the South through his Total Tennis Training Camps.

PTR is the largest global organization of tennis teaching professionals with more than 13,000 members in 122 countries. It has the greatest percentage of multicultural and women members of any such organization. PTR is dedicated to educating, certifying and servicing tennis teachers and coaches around the world in order to grow the game.
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Photo by Ken Mak: Chuck Kriese (center) receives his award from PTR Master Professionals Jean Mills (left) and Dr. Louie Cap (right)