Tristan Venables
Joined UGA staff for the 2012-13 season as a volunteer coach ... from 1999-2012 served as head coach at Wembley Downs Tennis Club in Perth, Western Australia, serving over 400 members, where he ran the pro shop and played state league from 1995-2012 ... was part of National League Finals Team held at the 2012 Australian Open ... selected in 2009 as one of just 16 coaches nationwide to receive Tennis Australia High Performance Coaching Qualification ... in 2010-11 he received Tennis Australia Facilitator Club Professional
Qualification/Junior Development ... 1999 Australian Satellite and Futures Tour ... played German club tennis in 1997, where he played in French Money tournaments and in Satellites on tour in UK ... in 1996 was ranked as high as No. 8 nationally as a junior ... played tennis at the University of Denver, where he was his team's No. 1 and voted MVP ... earnedBachelor of Contemporary Arts degree from Edith Cowan University ... while traveling as a coach in 2005 he visited UGA for the first time, where he met his wife, Jessica, a Georgia grad.
