13th season at Centre College
Hometown : Cincinnati, Ohio
College : Centre College '80
Email : vndrbrnk@centre.edu
Phone: (859) 238-5490
Coach Vonderbrink has 17 years experience coaching college tennis and three years at the high school level. He has served for 14 years as the head coach at Centre during two different stints and as an assistant at Lynchburg College for three years. The last four years he has served as Head Coach for both the Men's and Women's teams at Centre.
During his tenure he has had nationally ranked players and has taken both singles and doubles teams to the NCAA National Tournament. He has been a member of the NCAA South Region Selection Committee and a member of the ITA. He enjoys coaching college tennis because of " the emphasis on the team format and play.College tennis is nice change from junior tennis with more emphasis on the team.The students enjoy the relationships with their teammates while still being able to compete in tennis.
Bennett Clark
Assistant Coach
1st season at Centre College
Hometown: Danville , KY
College: Centre College ‘06
E-mail: bennett.clark@centre.edu
Bennett Clark, a 2006 graduate of Centre, begins his first season as the Men's and Women's Assistant Tennis Coach. Clark was a four year letterman on the Men's team and also played two years of football and three years of basketball for the Colonels. He is originally from Danville and is glad to be working within the community in which he grew up in. During three summers of college, Clark gained teaching experience heading tennis programs in North Carolina . He is very grateful to have the opportunity to rejoin his old teammates with a new role in the program.
