Yaser Zaatini

East Tennessee State University

Team:men & women

Yaser Zaatini enters his fifth season as Director of ETSU Tennis, serving in his 13th year as head coach of the men's team and fifth as head of the women's team.

In his time coaching at ETSU, Zaatini has compiled a combined record of 296-127 (.700), with a 226-90 record coaching the men's team and a 70-37 record coaching the women's team. He has guided the men's squad to nine consecutive conference tournament titles and NCAA Tournament appearances, while helping the women's team to NCAA Tournament berths in 2011 and 2014.

Zaatini was initially named the assistant coach of the men’s tennis program in the fall of 2002, but took on the larger responsibility of head coach after former head coach Dave Mullins was named as the Director of Intercollgiate Athletics at ETSU. Since being named the men's head coach, the five-time conference “Coach of the Year,” has not only sustained the Bucs great tennis tradition but he has pushed it to a new level, winning 15 conference championships and has made seven trips to the NCAA Tournament, while compiling a 168-58 overall record (.743 winning percentage). On July 9, 2010, Zaatini was named the Director of Tennis at ETSU, gaining direct oversight for both the Buccaneers’ men’s and women’s tennis programs.