Head Coach Peter Howell led the Men’s and Women’s tennis teams for 21 years, before retiring in 2019. He has been inducted into the Georgia Tennis Hall of Fame, the USPTA-Southern Division Hall of Fame and the Georgia Professional Tennis Hall of Fame. He founded the Georgia Professional Tennis Association in 1977.
Howell was ranked fifth in the nation by the USTA among doubles players 35 and over from 1988-90, and was also fifth in the nation in doubles among players 40 and over from 1991-92. He still competes today recently winning the USTA National Sr. 9.0 Doubles Championship. He was named the USTA Georgia Senior Player of the Year in both 1989 and 1991, the Georgia Professional of the Year in 1978, 1984 and 1998, and the USTA Southern Section Professional of the Year in 1993. He was Southern Athletic Association Tennis Coach of the Year in 2013. He played collegiate tennis for Vanderbilt University and was selected captain and team most valuable player in 1970.
The men's tennis teams he’s guided have been ranked regionally in the Atlantic
South region among NCAA Division IIl schools in eight of the past ten seasons. The 2015 squad finished #13 after being ranked #14 the previous
two years. His 2016 men's team earned a first ever national ranking breaking in at #40 and #11 in the Atlantic South. In 2015, He had his first player to be selected for the NCAA Individual Tourney and ranked in the top #25 nationally.
The 2015 women's team showed continued improvement and has had players achieving All-Conference Honors for the past seven years.
