Rachel Gale enters her first season as the assistant tennis coach at Meredith College. The Virginia native joins the staff of Head Coach Kelly Weaver.

Gale brings fifteen years of championship level tennis to Meredith.  Gale is currently ranked #1 in the USTA North Carolina 35 and over and #6 nationally.  Gale was honored to join the 2008 United States Women’s Tennis Team to compete in this year’s Suzanne Lenglen Cup International Tennis competition in Antalya, Turkey where her team finished in fourth place.  In 2008, Gale was runner up in singles in the 35’s National Indoor and 3rd at the 35’s National Claycourts.  

Gale graduated from Farleigh Dickinson University in 1989 with an associate’s degree in Liberal Arts.  She then went on to Virginia Commonwealth University, where she earned a degree in Parks and Recreation in 1992. 

Gale is also a tennis teaching professional at the Lochmere Swim and Tennis Club in Cary, N.C.