Jeremy Loomis
Director
With over 30 years of playing and coaching experience, Coach Loomis has an abundance of knowledge about the sport of tennis and player development.
Coach Jeremy Loomis is the head women's tennis coach at Swarthmore College. Under his watch, Swarthmore has earned its highest national
ranking (#14), won 3 Centennial Conference Championships and has qualified for 5 NCAA Division III Team Tournaments and 7 NCAA Division III Individual Tournaments. In 2010, he became the first women's tennis coach at Swarthmore to earn 100 victories.
Coach Loomis is a Professor of Physical Education at Swarthmore College specializing in racquet sports. He teaches the only class in Racketlon in the country which is a combined racquet sport event that involves table tennis, badminton, squash, and tennis. He runs the only Racketlon tournament in the Philadelphia region at Swarthmore College.
As a competitive tennis player growing up, Loomis was a nationally ranked junior tennis player from the Mid-Atlantic area and played #1 singles and #1 doubles for the University of Maryland. After graduating, he earned an ATP world ranking in doubles and was a gold medalist in the World Maccabiah Games. He recently started playing tournaments again and was ranked #1 in the Middle States/ Philadelphia District in the 35 and over division in 2010.
Coach Loomis began his coaching career overseas in
Jakarta, Indonesia where he helped train the
Indonesian Junior National Team. When he returned to the United States,
he went back to school to earn a master's degree in Exercise Science from Miami (Ohio)
University and helped the men's tennis team to 2 consecutive conference championships. He then took the helm at
his alma mater (Maryland) and was the associate head coach of the men's and women's team team. While performing his coaching duties, he completed an
M.B.A. from the R.H. Smith School of Business.
Before
coming to Swarthmore, he spent one year as the assistant women's tennis coach at Duke University. In that year, the Blue Devils ended the year with a #6
team national ranking, won the ACC regular season title, and had 2 All-American singles players and an All-American doubles team.