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06/17/2010 -
Kevin Coghill Named Head Men's And Women's Tennis Coach
Kevin Coghill, a Mount Olive College alum and former assistant tennis coach, has been named the Trojans’ head men’s and women’s tennis coach. Coghill succeeds Dr. Burt Lewis, who stepped down in May to take over as academic chair of the Recreation and Leisure Studies Department at Mount Olive.
Coghill spent two years as assistant coach for the Trojan tennis teams, helping guide Mount Olive to its first-ever Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference men’s tennis regular season title and an unbeaten conference mark in 2005. Lewis was named CVAC Men’s Tennis Coach of the Year during both years Coghill served as an assistant. Coghill also helped guide the Trojan women’s tennis team to its first-ever top three conference finish in 2006.
As a collegiate player, Coghill earned all-conference honors in 2002. He helped lead Mount Olive to a top four conference finish for the first time in Trojan men’s tennis history.
Coghill has spent the past four years as head boys’ tennis coach at Charles B. Aycock High School and physical education teacher at Greenwood Middle School. Previously, he served as Director of Tennis at River Landing and Goldsboro Country Club.
“I feel very blessed to get to coach at my alma mater,” said Coghill. “Coach Lewis has done a great job building the men’s and women’s tennis programs and I look forward to the challenge of continuing that level of success.”
Lewis spent 14 years as Mount Olive’s head men’s and women’s tennis coach. Coghill was selected after a nationwide search.
“We are very excited to have Kevin return to the Mount Olive College athletic program,” said Director of Athletics Jeff Eisen. “Kevin was an outstanding tennis student-athlete and assistant coach here and we now look for him to do an outstanding job as head coach.”