Blake Mosley - Tennis Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Blake Mosley

Title:
Assistant Coach
Year At CU:
6th Season
Alma Mater:
College of Charleston '96
E-mail:
blake.mosley@colorado.edu
Phone:
808-228-2051

Blake Mosley starts his seventh year as an assistant coach with the University of Colorado tennis program, his second since 2016-17.

In his first season back in Boulder in 2023-24, Mosley helped lead the Buffs to a record of 14-11, highlighted by an eleven-match win streak the longest in program history. That led the team to be ranked eight times in the ITA polls, the most since 2014-15. In the final poll Colorado was ranked No. 71 with the doubles team of Aya El Sayed and Pia Rebec at No. 55 in the nation while Mila Stanojevic and Elys Ventura were ranked No. 83. El Sayed and Rebec were ranked in five polls, the most since the 2014-15 season and in that poll were joined by Ema Bubalo and Anya Nelson, who were ranked No. 70.

This is the first time two doubles teams were ranked in the final poll since the 2010-11 season and the first time since the 2009-10 season that three doubles teams were ranked at one point in the season and first time in CU history that six different players were ranked in doubles at one point in the season.

With the team's 2-1 record at the NIT, the Buffs won two post season matches in back-to-back years for the first time in program history and the team's 14 dual match wins is the most in 21 seasons. CU compiled a 13-1 mark against teams outside the Pac-12 throughout the season and had a school-record 11 match win streak and perfect February, compiling a 9-0 record.

Mosley was a big part in several program firsts in his first stint with the Buffaloes. In his second year with the Buffs in 2014-15, he helped Julyette Steur and Kyra Wojcik become the first doubles pair at CU to win a regional championship and qualify for the ITA/USTA National Indoors Championships. In October 2015, Nuria Ormeño Ruiz became the first CU player to achieve that in singles, winning six straight matches, including three against regionally-ranked opponents, to advance to nationals.

CU’s 11 wins in 2014-15 were the most since 2009-10 and two doubles pairs advanced past the first round of the Pac-12 Championships for the first time since CU joined the league in 2011-12. Furthermore, Alex Aiello and Ormeño Ruiz reached the semifinals of the Invitational Doubles draw, another program first. In 2015-16, Mosley coached two singles players beyond the first round of the Pac-12 Championships for the first time. Sophomore Tina Bokhua was ranked as high as No. 42 nationally, the highest ranking for a Buffaloes player since 2007, and she also became CU’s first-ever Pac-12 Player of the Week in February 2016.

In his first three years at Boulder, Mosley coached four All-Pac-12 players, including Julyette Steur, a first-team selection in 2015. He has also coached back-to-back ITA Mountain Region Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award winners in Steur in 2015 and Ormeño Ruiz in 2016. Five of Mosley’s players have earned Pac-12 All-Academic honors.

After his first stint in Boulder, Mosley spent four seasons as the head women’s tennis coach at Appalachian State, where he helped the program reach unprecedented historic success. Under his tutelage, the Mountaineers reached a Top-50 ranking for the first time in program history and captured the program’s first-ever Sun Belt regular season championship. Earning him the Sun Belt Coach of the Year in 2019.

At App State, he guided four all-conference selections and the program earned ITA All-Academic Team in four consecutive years.

After his time at Appalachian State he spent one-year as an assistant women’s tennis coach at the University of Oklahoma. During his time in Norman, the Sooners were ranked as high as No. 21 nationally and finished the campaign at No. 24 in the ITA rankings. Four student-athletes he mentored earned a combined seven All-Big honors, as the squad finished 15-7 overall with seven victories over ranked opponents.

In his last stop before returning to Colorado he went back to his alma mater as an assistant coach for the College of Charleston for two seasons.

Prior to becoming an assistant coach for the Buffs he spent the 2012-13 school year as an assistant coach at Santa Clara University. The Broncos finished No. 65 nationally with a 12-10 overall record and a program-first, finishing atop of the West Coast Conference standings with an 8-2 mark.

Seven Broncos received WCC Honors for both their athletic and academic achievements, in addition to one of Santa Clara’s student-athlete’s (Katie Le) becoming the first-ever tennis player in the women’s program to qualify for NCAAs, and the first player to win a match at the singles championships.

Prior to Santa Clara, Mosley spent five years as the women’s head coach at Chaminade University. There he was named 2010 ITA West Region Coach of the Year where the team finished as high as third in the Pac West Conference. In his first year at Chaminade, the team had more wins that season than all previous seasons combined.

Mosley started as a head tennis professional at Padre Isles Country Club in Texas and was an NCAA assistant at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. He also coached and competed in Austria and Switzerland. Mosley has also been certified via the United States Professional Tennis Association at the level of Pro I.

As a player, Mosley was ranked the No. 3 men’s player in the Texas Open Division in 1999 before heading to Europe. Starting in 1999, after coaching at Texas A&M Corpus Christi under current Texas A&M head tennis coach Steve Moore, Mosley travelled to Austria to play professionally.

Mosley played No. 1 singles and doubles for TC Goetzens in the Austrian Club League while coaching many rising stars in Austria. In Austria, Mosley was a sparring partner for Sylvia Plischke, who was ranked No. 29 in the world.

Mosley moved on to Switzerland to continue playing and coaching. There he played No. 1 singles and doubles for TC Pfaffikersee. He also served as a traveling coach at the International Tennis Academy in Switzerland and was the sparring partner of Patricia Mayr-Achleitner, who is currently ranked by the WTA.

Mosley played his collegiate tennis at the College of Charleston from 1991-95, playing No. 3 singles, No. 1 and 2 doubles. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1996.

A native of Riverside, Calif., Mosley attended Flour Bluff High School in Corpus Christi.

Mosley is married to the former Aline Sartori of Florianopolis, Brazil.