Anthony Pham enters his fifth season as the head coach of the University of Colorado tennis team in 2025. He was named the seventh head coach in program history since women's tennis was awarded varsity status in 1976. He follows Jeff Moore (1976-82), Steve Zaslow (1982-84), Jon Winegardner (1984-87), Tom Russ (1987-99), Nicole Kenneally (1999-2018), and Danielle Steinberg (2018-21).

In his five seasons with the Buffaloes, Pham has led the team to a 44-52 overall record and several program firsts. He led Colorado to back-to-back postseason appearances for the first time since 1999. In the second straight season playing in the NIT, the team finished as the runner-up.

In his fourth season, Pham led the team to nine victories, including two Big-12 wins over Houston and West Virginia. The Buffs opened the spring season with a four-match win streak, outscoring their opponents 22-6. Before the spring season began, doubles pair Anya Nelson and Ema Bubalo became the first ITA Mountain Region Champions in program history. The duo stayed consistently ranked throughout the season, finding their highest ranking at No. 19 in the nation. The team also found itself ranked at No. 72 in the nation on February 26th.

In post-season competition, Colorado, in its first trip to the Big 12 Championship since 2011, upset 11th-seeded Iowa State 4-2 in the first round. The Buffaloes won four straight matches after losing the doubles point and the first singles match. The season also ended with all three seniors accumulating over 50 career wins, being the sixth time in school history that three active players held 50-plus singles victories (Mila Stanojevic, Betina Tokac, Aya El Sayed).

Following this season in career records, Stanojevic sits tied at No. 18 in CU tennis history for total singles wins (70), No. 11 for doubles total wins (63), and No. 14 for combined singles and doubles wins. For doubles teams, Nelson/Bubalo also hold No. 9 for doubles pairs wins (30), and El Sayed/Rebec at No. 10 for No. 1 doubles pairs wins (11).

Off the court in the 2025 spring season, the team recorded the best spring GPA in program history and the second-best of any team at CU in history (3.761). This is their 13th consecutive semester holding over a 3.2 GPA, destroying the previous spring best of 3.381 in 1999.

In his third season, Pham led 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 the 2014-15 season. 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 was 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 the 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 postseason 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.

In just his second season as the head coach Pham led the team to their first ever Pac-12 tournament win and first postseason win since 1998. The team ended up winning 13 dual matches which was more than any season in the last 16 years, dating back to a 16-8 record in the 2006-07 season. The success in the regular season gave way for the first postseason appearance since 2007 and postseason win since 1998.

He also led the Buffs in the win against No. 16 Washington for only the second win against a team ranked No.16 or higher in the last 16 years. Antonia Balzert became only the third Buff to be named Pac-12 player of the week and the first since 2019. All of the accomplishments led to the first Pac-12 tournament win in school history with a 4-2 upset win over Oregon in the first round.

Pham, 42, had taken over as interim head coach on July 1, replacing Danielle Steinberg, who resigned due to family reasons. Pham had been serving as associate head coach since February, coming to CU from the University of Wisconsin, where he was the associate head coach for the Badgers' No. 21-ranked program for the 2019-20 season (the school's highest ranking in 20 years). He had just been promoted to Wisconsin's associate head coach on June 1, 2020.

Pham is also the first Vietnamese-American head coach in CU history, and indications are he may very well be the first in any sport in the Power 4 conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC).

Pham has 20 years of collegiate coaching experience, including his time as an assistant at Wisconsin and Purdue University, an ATP Touring coach, and the head coach at Niagara University, the latter over both the men's and women's programs. At Niagara, he was Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for both the men and women in 2013.

He recruited two five-star players in Wisconsin's 2021 class, and for the Badgers was responsible for running all aspects of the program including scheduling practice, recruiting and practice planning. In five seasons as an assistant at Purdue, he was pivotal in recruiting three classes that were ranked in the top 25 nationally, including the No. 10 class in 2018. He also coached Silvia Ambrosio to a No. 9 ranking in the nation in singles while the Boilermakers were No. 21 in the nation.

Pham also spent time as an ATP Touring Coach during his time at Purdue; one of his top players was Daniel Nguyen who was a member of Southern California's team that won four straight NCAA titles.

His first head coaching position came tutoring the men at Niagara University in 2008; he then assumed the head coaching chores for Niagara's women's program as well in 2010 and held both positions until he was hired by Purdue in October 2014. He was named the MAAC Conference Coach of the Year for both teams in 2013, the first in conference history to be recognized with the honor for both in the same season.

He earned his bachelor's degree in Biology in 2004 from Baker (Kan.) University, where he was a four-time first team All-HAAC (Heart of America Athletic Conference) performer. A two-time team captain, he won the conference title as an individual as a freshman in 2001, helping the Wildcats to the team title, led Baker to two top 25 rankings and was a finalist for the Arthur Ashe National Award for sportsmanship and leadership.

Pham received his Master's of Education in Secondary Education with an emphasis in Health Education from Drury University in 2007, where he broke into the coaching profession as a graduate assistant for both the men's and women's tennis teams, while also serving as the strength and conditioning coach.Both teams won two conference titles with him on the staff and were ranked nationally.

Name	Title	Email Address	Phone
Anthony Pham	Head Coach	anthony.pham-1@colorado.edu	720-768-2901
Erick Garcia	Assistant Tennis Coach	erick.garcia@colorado.edu

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