Arizona women\u2019s tennis is adding one more name to its coaching staff this season.<\/p>\n
Lily Woods, an assistant coach from Mercer University in Georgia, was hired as an assistant coach for Arizona\u2019s women\u2019s tennis program, head coach Ryan Stotland announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Woods was a member of the Wofford College women’s tennis program from 2021-25, a two-time second-team All-Southern Conference honoree (in singles and doubles) and a four-time ITA Scholar-Athlete selection, according to Arizona Athletics.<\/p>\n
During her time with Wofford, she recorded a 46-30 overall record in singles and a 45-30 record in doubles.<\/p>\n
\u201cLily is a rising star in the coaching world,\u201d Stotland said in a press release. \u201cShe is a person who was born to coach. Everyone around her gets better, and she is willing to go the extra mile. We know she is going to add a lot to our team and university. We are lucky to have her and cannot wait for her to get started. Big things are coming. Bear Down!\u201d<\/p>\n
The UA program finished the 2025-26 season 20-10 and made an NCAA Tournament appearance, where it fell 4-3 to Notre Dame in the first round. Before that, the Wildcats wrapped up the regular season with 10 wins in a row and defeated Kansas in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament, before losing to UCF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona women\u2019s tennis is adding one more name to its coaching staff this season. Lily Woods, an assistant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,2359,2358,300097,131905,131912,300095,85,234615,300096,747,131909],"class_list":["post-853186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ball-games","tag-balls","tag-games-and-sports","tag-grass-field-surfaces","tag-lawn-games","tag-racket-sports","tag-sports","tag-summer-olympic-sports","tag-summer-sports","tag-tennis","tag-turf-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}