Staff Directory
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
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- Phone:
- (812) 855-0694
Mike Murray is entering his 12th season as part of the Indiana Men’s Tennis coaching staff in 2025-26.
The 2024-25 season featured an 11-13 dual record. The team opened the season with a 9-0 record and later picked up Big Ten victories over Wisconsin and Penn State on the road.
Facundo Yunis and Jip van Assendelft qualified for the NCAA Doubles Championships in Waco, Texas (Nov. 19-24) and reached the Round of 16. The duo earned their spot in the championships with their performance in the ITA South Sectional.
In 2023-24, Indiana finished with a 16-11 record, the team’s best since the 2014-15 season. The Hoosiers were ranked as high as No. 32 in the ITA team rankings. Sophomore Sam Landau qualified for the main draw of the 2023 ITA All-American Championships in the fall. Landau would be ranked as high as No. 41 nationally in singles during the season.
Murray, a native of St. Petersburg, Fla., started as an assistant coach at Georgia State in July of 2014 and before that was at East Carolina.
In July 2022, Murray was promoted from assistant to associate head coach of the program.
In the 2019-20 season the Hoosiers went 8-3, their best start through 2011 matches since the 2010-11 season. The Hoosiers were ranked as high at No. 37 in the country on the season…Bennett Crane reached the final of the ITA Regional Championships and earned a spot in the ITA Fall National Championships. Crane was ranked as high as No. 49 on the reached and teamed with Zac Brodney to reach a ranking of No. 42.
In the 2015-16 season the Hoosiers finished fifth in the Big Ten conference standings as they won their last five conference matches of the season. Senior Sam Monette earned First Team All-Big Ten honors and was selected the Ohio Valley Region Player of the Year.
Murray helped guide the Pirates to a 34-13 record over that span including a first time appearance in the seminfinals of the conference tournament in 2014, a first ever win over a top-50 program (No. 44 Elon on April 12), and a first ever final national ranking at 73. In 2013 he helped two student-athletes earn an invitation to the NCAA Doubles Championship. A year later, Murray helped another Pirate win the 2014 Conference USA Player-of-the-Year Award and an invitation to the 2014 NCAA Singles Championship.
Prior to ECU, Murray spent five years as the head boy’s and girl’s varsity tennis coach at Forsyth Country Day School in Winston-Salem, N.C. In his time there, he created year-round programs for players of all ages and skill levels as well as a tennis academy.
Murray graduated from Wake Forest in 2003 after a four-year playing career. He ranks among the Deacons’ all-time top 10 in singles and doubles victories. He set the Demon Deacons’ freshman singles record with a team-high 26 wins. The following year he finished as ACC No. 2 Flight runner-up and ranked as high as No. 60 in the ITA individual rankings. He finished his collegiate career with 28 singles wins in 2003.
Murray’s wife Kelly is a realtor in Bloomington and their daughter Mae was born in February of 2020.
