Camp Director:

Simon Earnshaw
HEAD WOMEN’S TENNIS COACH

NC State University

Simon Earnshaw has elevated the NC State women’s tennis program to new heights since being named NC State’s head coach on May 30, 2014. A nine-time National Champion with a combined 25 coaching awards, Earnshaw came to NC State following a historic 15-year run as the head men’s and women’s tennis coach at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga.

Leading the Wolfpack in his ninth year during the 2023 season, Earnshaw led NC State to their winningest season in program history with 28 wins which included a ACC tournament championship over No.1 ranked North Carolina and a trip to the National Championship rematching with the Tar Heels; the 13th in program history. Earnshaw’s .822 career winning percentage ranked second among active NCAA Division I coaches who have at least 10 years of experience and seventh all-time. He is the only coach in program history to post double-digit wins in each of his first nine seasons. The 2019 and 2023 ACC Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year, Earnshaw has led NC State to seven straight NCAA Championships bids, the longest streak in school history.

In the midst of the 2022 dual match campaign, Earnshaw became the winningest head coach in NC State women’s tennis history. The Pack has collected an NCAA doubles title, 14 all-conference honors, seven NCAA Doubles Championships selections and six NCAA Singles Championships appearances under his leadership. Under his oversight, Adriana Reami (127 singles wins, 94 doubles wins) and Anna Rogers (117 singles wins, 157 doubles wins) became the winningest singles and doubles players, respectively, in the NC State record books.

A native of Holmfirth, England, he was hired as assistant men’s and women’s tennis coach at Armstrong Atlantic for the 1998-99 season. A year later he was elevated to the head position and his programs responded by making history. During his tenure at AASU, Earnshaw directed the women’s program to six national titles, and its men’s program to three. He is a four-time ITA National Women’s Coach of the Year (2004, 2006, 2009, 2012) and 19-time Peach Belt Conference Coach of the Year. He was named to the AASU Hall of Fame in 2017. In addition to the nine national titles, his programs reached 12 NCAA Division II finals, 16 Final Fours, 21 NCAA quarterfinals, produced 35 ITA All-Americans, 30 ITA Scholar-Athletes, and 15 ITA All-Academic teams. Earnshaw guided Armstrong Atlantic to an overall mark of 747-118 (.864). His women’s teams sported a 411-35 record (.922), including a 325-11 record the last 11 seasons (.967), while his men’s program notched a 336-83 mark (.802).

In his native England, Earnshaw is a Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) qualified coach at the national level. He also worked extensively with some of the world’s top players at the Nick Bolletieri Sport Academy during the summer months of 1993 to 1998.

Earnshaw earned his Bachelor’s of Science in chemistry from Georgia College and State University (GCSU) in 1996, where helped the Bobcats to top 10 national rankings in each of his four seasons as a collegiate tennis player. He earned his Masters of Education in health and physical education in 1998, also from GCSU.

In seven completed years with the program, Secker has reached five NCAA Championships, including the Pack’s historic 2023 trip to the National Championship. He has also coached a total of eight Wolfpack All-Americans, including the first two in program history in Anna Rogers and Alana Smith.

Most recently, Secker helped the Wolfpack book its first appearance in the NCAA Championships finals in 2023. The berth was the culmination of a season during which the Wolfpack posted a record-setting number of dual wins (28)

In 2022 he helped the Wolfpack reach the ITA National Team Indoor Championships semifinal for the first time in program history. Secker also played a role in coaching Jaeda Daniel and Nell Miller to the 2022 NCAA doubles title, the first in program history, and also helped guide Abigail Rencheli to the singles quarterfinal for All-America status.

Secker helped the Pack to a 20-6 record in 2021 on its way to the national semifinal. He was part of orchestrating 10 nationally-ranked wins and the program-best No. 6 final national ranking.

The 2020 season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, but Secker still helped the Wolfpack post its best start to a season (18-3) and earn five victories over top-25 opponents in that span. That year, NC State reached a program-best No. 3 national ranking in January of 2020.

NC State ended Secker’s second season with the team with a 24-7 (11-3) record, marking the most total wins and conference wins in the program’s history.

Under his guidance, Rogers reached a program-high No. 8 singles ranking and a program-high No. 4 doubles ranking with Alana Smith. In addition, the doubles tandem advanced to the NCAA Doubles Championships Elite Eight for the first time in program history.

Secker graduated from Armstrong Atlantic in 2006 with a degree in psychology and with a Masters in public health in 2013. He played under Earnshaw from 2003-06 and compiled an 81-40 singles record, which ranks third all-time in program history. He and his team advanced to the NCAA Championship all four years while the squad advanced to the semifinals in 2005 and the sweet 16 in 2006.