An original California boy, Jamie Morgan has taught at a number of tennis facilities specializing in training in high level junior and collegiate level play. After completing his own college career at UC Davis, which included being ranked as high as #11 in California, Jamie moved to Johnson Ranch Racquet Club in 1998. He remained there for several years honing his teaching skills before joining the pros at Gorin Tennis Academy, where he trained ATP players working under coach Vitaly Gorin. Among those Jamie trained were Dmitry Tursunov, recently featured at the US Open in both singles and doubles, and Brandon Coupe, a top 60 ATP doubles player.
Fortunate for Richmond, Jamie moved to here in 2005 to join the staff of Westwood Racquet Club, where he developed both the junior and adult Suburban leagues. While at Westwood, Jamie used some of the high energy techniques devised for training and motivating developing junior and professional players to sharpen the skills of the adult players, leading Westwood to high level finished in the Anthem Challenge during his tenure.
Returning to his first love of junior development, Jamie joined the group Tennis4Life, a Richmond based non-profit program committed to the training of junior players. A founding member of the board of T4L in 2006, Jamie has been instrumental in the development of programs and in hands-on coaching for numerous nationally and regionally ranked junior players, and has grown the program from an initial twelve players to over eighty juniors training for tournaments and varsity play.
One of the aspects Jamie enjoys most about coaching is watching the progression of players through their development. Recently he has seized the opportunity to work with the University of Richmond Women’s Tennis Team, acting as the assistant coach. In this position, Jamie has had the chance to work with high level, extremely motivated players, and to measure the success of his coaching ability through the improvement of the players individually, and the team as a whole.
While Jamie loves to coach and train players, his real passion is water sports. Although somewhat diminished by his move to landlocked Richmond, Jamie continues to wakeboard, waterski, jet ski, and basically just get out on the water at every opportunity.
Jamie Morgan - Assistant Coach Richmond (September 2008 - present)