Camp Director:

Peter Kobelt
Head Men’s Tennis Coach

The University of Nebraska

Peter Kobelt was named the interim head coach of the Husker men’s tennis team ahead of the 2023-24 season. Kobelt joined the Husker tennis program staff as an assistant coach in June of 2022 and helped the team reach an Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) season-high ranking of 45. The Huskers stayed in the top 50 rankings for much of 2022-23.

Kobelt previously served as the volunteer assistant coach at Kentucky for two seasons (2020-22), helping the Wildcats reach the 2022 NCAA finals and a No. 7 national ranking. He was responsible for implementing the doubles strategy and on-court fitness for the entire team and coached the No. 1 ranked ITA player, Liam Draxl, through the semifinals match at the 2021 NCAA Men’s singles competition. Kobelt also played a significant role in the development of No. 4 Gabriel Diallo and No. 33 Millen Hurrion.

Kobelt played collegiately and professionally. On the ITF and ATP men’s professional tours, he peaked with a No. 332 singles and No. 378 doubles ranking. Kobelt was a tennis standout at Ohio State, finishing his career as one of the most successful men’s tennis players in school history. He led Ohio State to its first NCAA National Indoor Team Championship in 2014 and was selected as the 2014 ITA National Indoor Championship’s Most Outstanding Player. Kobelt currently holds the Buckeye all-time record for most career doubles wins with 139 and is No. 4 in Buckeye history with a combined 244 singles and doubles wins. During his career, he held the ITA No. 1 singles ranking and the No. 2 doubles ranking.

A native of New Albany, Ohio, Kobelt earned a bachelor’s degree in science of human ecology from Ohio State in 2014.

Forman joined the Nebraska men’s tennis coaching staff as an assistant coach ahead of the 2024-25 season. Forman had spent the past four collegiate seasons in coaching positions at Wisconsin, Wichita State and UNC Charlotte.

In just one year with the Badgers, Forman helped two student-athletes achieve career national rankings in singles. As interim head coach with Wichita State, he recruited and coached Kristof Minarik, who was named the 2022 ITA Central Region Rookie of the Year.

Most recently, Forman has spent the last two seasons at UNC Charlotte. In his time with the 49ers, the team achieved a program career high end-of-season ITA ranking of 46. The Charlotte team also claimed a conference title, winning the AAC tournament, and made the NCAA tournament for the second time in program history.

Prior to his assistant coaching positions, Forman spent two seasons as a volunteer assistant coach, one with his alma mater, and one at Princeton.

Forman graduated from Michigan State in 2018, where he was a four-time letterwinner and three-time captain on the men’s tennis team. In his time as a Spartan, he tallied over 100 career match wins, and led the team in single victories in his captain seasons. Forman was also selected for Academic-All Big Ten three times, and named Big Ten Athlete of the Week his senior season.

Forman earned a Bachelors in Marketing in 2018, as well as a Masters in Sports Leadership and Coaching in 2020, both at MSU. He is originally from Troy, Michigan.

After competing with the Big Red for five seasons and earning a spot on the Husker’s top-10 career victories list, Maruyama returned to Nebraska as an assistant coach for the 2024-45 season.

From Nagano, Japan, Maruyama had a decorated Big Red career on and off the court. In his final two seasons, he was named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and received the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award. The May 2024 graduate studied psychology and claimed over 130 wins on the singles and doubles courts. Maruyama was voted a team captain for the 2023-24 season, helping lead the team to its first ever Big Ten Tournament Semi-final, and a program-best record since 1990.

Clark comes to Omaha after a two-year stint as an assistant coach at Utah State. Last season with the Aggies, he helped lead them to an 18-5 record and a Mountain West regular season title (first since 2018). The team stayed in the ITA top 75 team rankings the entire season and peaked at No. 53 in the country. They finished the season at No. 66. Clark had a hand in coaching senior Bodin Zarkovic, who became the first regional champion in program history last year. He rose as high as No. 96 in the national singles rankings, which was a program record. To close out the 2023-24 season, five of his players were named All-Conference and first year racket Mohammad Alkotop was named Freshman of the Year.

In the 2022-23 season, the team posted an overall record of 12-13 to finish tied for third in the Mountain West Conference. He helped lead two of his players to the All-Mountain West Singles and Doubles teams.

Clark entered the coaching ranks in 2019-20 as a volunteer assistant for the University of Washington women’s tennis team. The Huskies were 11-3 prior to the season being canceled due to COVID-19. Washington finished 2020 with a final ITA Ranking of 27^th and reached as high as 14^th. He coached Vanessa Wong, who was ranked the No. 75 singles player in the country and Natsuho Arakawa, who along with Wong, were the No. 59 ranked doubles team in the country.

He spent time in the Summit League in the 2020-21 season as a volunteer coach for the women’s program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He assisted the Roos to a 5-1 record in league play and a berth in the championship match of the Summit League Tournament. Clark also spent his collegiate playing days in Kansas City from 2016-2019. He was a part of two conference championship winning teams (2017, 2018) and was a two-year captain of the Roos.

Following his stint in Kansas City, he spent the 2021 Fall season as the men’s assistant coach at UAB.