Updated 6/15/10

• Travis' Year by Year Coaching Records
• All-Time Men's Tennis Coaching Records

Laura Travis will begin her 19th season as head coach of the University of Delaware women's tennis team and 18th season as men's tennis head coach during the 2010-11 season.

Travis, the former Laura LeRoy, has enjoyed nothing but success with both teams since taking over the the women's reigns from B.J. Ferguson in 1992-93 and the men's head position from UD Hall of Fame member Roy Rylander in 1993-94. She served as Rylander's assistant coach in 1992-93.

Her Delaware men's teams have won at least 10 matches in all but two seasons and her overall record is 191-141 (.575), including a 15-5 record in 1996-97 when the Blue Hens captured the America East title. The win marked just the second conference title in school history and the first since 1974.

She also led the Blue Hens to a second place finish in 1995-96 and semifinal appearances in 1995, 1998, and 1999. Travis was named America East Men's Tennis Coach of the Year twice, in 1996, and 1997.

On the women's side, Travis has led the Blue Hens to an 18-year record of 213-108 (.664) which includes establishing school records for wins in three different seasons when the Hens posted marks of 17-0, 17-1, and 17-9. She led the Blue Hens to eight straight America East Tournament second place finishes in 1994-2001 and was the league Coach of the Year in 1994-95, 1995-96, and 1999-2000. Most recently, Travis has led the Blue Hens to six consecutive 10-plus win seasons.

Her 1996-97 team went undefeated with a 17-0 mark and her 1997-98 squad completed a school record 42-match win streak which tied the longest win streak by any women's athletic team in UD history.

Prior to returning to her alma mater as an assistant coach, Travis served as head coach for boy's and girl's tennis at nearby A.I. duPont High School.

Travis, the first woman to coach a men's team at the University of Delaware, has been named conference Coach of the Year five times, twice in men's and three times in women's tennis. In 1995, she was named the United States Professional Tennis Association Middle Atlantic Division Women's College Coach of the Year. In addition, she was the USPTA Women's Open Player of the Year in 1995 and the USPTA Rookie of the Year in 1994.

A 1989 University of Delaware honors graduate in physical education, Travis was one of the all-time great tennis players in Blue Hen history during her career in 1985-89. A native of Wilmington, Del. and an All-State player at Tower Hill School, she was a four-time East Coast Conference champion in singles and doubles and led the Blue Hens to East Coast Conference team titles in 1987 and 1988. She was voted team Most Valuable Player all four years.

She was inducted into the University of Delaware Athletics Hall of Fame in November, 2001.

While at Delaware, she set school records for singles wins in a season (22 in 1988-89) and a career (73-12) and doubles wins in a career (26-9 with Christie Ellis). She was the 1988-89 ECC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women's tennis and was a CoSIDA/GTE District II All-Academic second team selection.

In December, 2003, Travis was named the national winner of the United States Tennis Association and International Tennis Association Campus Recreation Award on December 3. She has been instrumental in the implementation of several programs geared to increasing tennis participation on the Delaware campus. Over the last six years, she has implemented USA Tennis Free for All, USA Tennis 1-2-3 and USA Team tennis programs on her campus. All these programs are related to the USA Tennis Program Pathway, which stresses "trying, learning, playing and competing" aspects of picking up and playing a sport.

Travis earned her masters degree in physical education and sports psychology from Delaware in 1998. She and her husband Gerry, reside in Newark with their daughters Brooke and Chase.