Men's Tennis
- Title:
- Men's Tennis Head Coach
- Phone:
- 706-542-9348
- Email:
- jhunt@sports.uga.edu
Jamie Hunt Email: jhunt@sports.uga.edu
Jamie Hunt, who was part of Georgia’s 2007 and 2008 NCAA National Championship teams as a player, and served seven years on the Georgia men’s tennis staff as an associate head coach, was tabbed to lead the Bulldogs’ men’s tennis program on Feb. 27, 2024.
Since returning to Athens in 2017, Hunt has twice been named the ITA Southeast Region Coach of the Year and helped the Bulldogs capture the 2023 SEC Championship with a perfect league record. He also played a crucial role in the development of NCAA singles national champion Ethan Quinn -- just the third player in program history to earn that title.
"Coach Hunt understands what it takes to compete at a championship level," J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Josh Brooks said. "He did it as a player and has led our program to championships as the associate head coach over the last few years. Jamie is someone who connects with our student-athletes and has helped lead our team to top recruiting classes nearly every year. I know our fans, alumni and student-athletes will be thrilled to have Jamie as the head coach of Georgia men's tennis."
Under his leadership, Georgia has signed six blue-chip prospects and three top-5 recruiting classes, including the top overall group in 2023.
"I am delighted that Jamie Hunt has been named the next head coach of men's tennis at the University of Georgia," said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. "He exemplifies UGA's standards of excellence for coaches and student-athletes, and I know that our men's tennis program will benefit tremendously from his continued leadership."
Hunt played for Coach Diaz from 2007-2010 and helped lead Georgia to a pair of national championships. Following his playing career, Hunt made his way to Nashville to become an assistant coach at Vanderbilt. The Commodores had an impressive year in 2013, finishing with a No. 15 ITA national ranking following an appearance in the NCAA Round of 16, marking Vanderbilt’s highest ranking in over a decade.
Following the previous year’s success, Hunt then helped the Commodores to a No. 20 national ranking in 2014 as the team hosted NCAA regionals for the second year in a row. In 2015, Hunt helped develop Gonzales Austin into Vanderbilt’s second ever SEC Player of the Year, helping the program earn its best SEC record in nearly a decade with an 8-4 mark against league opponents.
Under his seven years of leadership in Nashville, four Vanderbilt players were named ITA All-Americans, while two doubles teams reached No. 1 rankings in ITA Doubles.
A U.S. Open Junior Doubles Champion, an All-SEC and All-America performer and winner of the prestigious Southeast Region ITA/Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship, Hunt was a star tennis player and leader for the Bulldogs’ tennis program from 2007 through 2010. His 116 singles wins rank 12th all-time in school history for the four-time All-SEC selection, while his combined singles and doubles record of 238-80 ranks third in the Georgia record book.
In 2008, Hunt compiled a 39-8 singles record, which included a perfect 10-0 mark against conference opponents. The next season, he teamed with Nate Schnugg to reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA doubles championship and earned All-America status.
Hunt was he only junior player in history to win the Easter Bowl Doubles in the boys 14’s, 16’s and 18’s. He also earned ITF World Junior rankings as high as No. 2 in doubles and No. 26 in singles.
Hunt and his wife Kyndal Edwards Hunt met as seniors at the University of Georgia. The couple has five children: Daughter Blakely (8), son Hayes (6), three-year-old twins -- daughter Macy and son Hudson -- and Ford, who was born in September of 2022.
