July 6, 2004
Josh Hausman, formerly a head coach at University of South Carolina-Spartanburg, was added to the Georgia Tech tennis coaching staff, head coach Kenny Thorne announced Tuesday.
As the men’s head coach, Hausman helped the Rifles finish with a No. 7 final ranking in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) poll during the 2003-04 season. The team finished with an impressive 20-5 record and advanced as one of the final 16 teams in the NCAA tournament that year.
Hausman, a former player and team captain for USC-Spartanburg, helped the Rifles to a No. 23 national ranking during his senior year in 2001. Before transferring to USC-Spartanburg, he played two years at Kilgore Junior College in Texas, where he led the team as captain in 1999 to a Top-5 national ranking. Hausman finished his career at Kilgore with a Top-50 national singles ranking and Top-15 national doubles ranking in the ITA Tennis rankings. Prior to his position as head coach of the USC-Spartanburg tennis program, Hausman spent two years as assistant coach at his alma mater where he helped propel the men and women’s tennis teams into national prominence over the last two seasons and earned a share of the regular season Peach Belt Conference championship in 2003.
“Josh is a great addition to our coaching staff with his three years of collegiate coaching experience,” said Thorne. “He is an extremely determined coach who understands the academic and athletic recruiting challenges at Tech and has coached some very good players over the past few years. I don’t think we could have hired anyone with a more positive attitude or better work ethic than Josh.”
A native of Alice, Tx., Hausman, 25, graduated from USC-Spartanburg in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in corporate fitness.
