Weber State University Athletics
RuthAnn Allen announced as Women's Tennis Head Coach
7/12/2019 2:48:00 PM | Women's Tennis
Weber State Athletics and Director of Tennis, Brad Ferreira is excited to announce the hiring of RuthAnn Allen as the women's tennis head coach.Â
RuthAnn Allen comes to Weber State with 19 years of coaching experience. She comes to Weber State after spending 18 years as an assistant coach and spent one year of associate head coach experience at the University of Utah.
"I am very grateful and appreciative to Brad Ferreira, Amy Crosbie, Winn Stanger and Tim Crompton for the opportunity to be a Head Coach and with entrusting me to lead our student-athletes," Allen said. "I feel honored and excited to continue to build on what Mark Roberts had accomplished. I will be committed to working hard to help the student-athletes achieve success on the court and in the classroom."
In 2019, Allen was instrumental with helping Utah to a top-50 finish in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association final poll, coming in at No. 44. Utah also posted a No. 2 ranking in the ITA Mountain Region poll marking the fifth straight year that the Utes have been ranked in the top five in the Mountain Region, earning back-to-back No.1 rankings in 2014 and 2015.
RuthAnn Allen comes to Weber State with 19 years of coaching experience. She comes to Weber State after spending 18 years as an assistant coach and spent one year of associate head coach experience at the University of Utah.
"I am very grateful and appreciative to Brad Ferreira, Amy Crosbie, Winn Stanger and Tim Crompton for the opportunity to be a Head Coach and with entrusting me to lead our student-athletes," Allen said. "I feel honored and excited to continue to build on what Mark Roberts had accomplished. I will be committed to working hard to help the student-athletes achieve success on the court and in the classroom."
In 2019, Allen was instrumental with helping Utah to a top-50 finish in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association final poll, coming in at No. 44. Utah also posted a No. 2 ranking in the ITA Mountain Region poll marking the fifth straight year that the Utes have been ranked in the top five in the Mountain Region, earning back-to-back No.1 rankings in 2014 and 2015.
Allen assisted the Utes in earning bids to the NCAA Tournament in 2012, 2011, 2010, and 1997. She also helped lead the Utes to two Mountain West Conference Championships in 2010, 2011.
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Allen helped the Utes produce eight All-Pac-12 selections and 13 All-Mountain West Conference selections, including 2011 MWC Women's Tennis Player of the Year Anastasia Putilina and 2008 MWC Freshman of the Year Evgenia Kryuchkova.
She was named ITA Central Region Coach of the Year in 2008.
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She was named ITA Central Region Coach of the Year in 2008.
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RuthAnn Stevens Allen competed for the University of Utah, ranked in the top 25 all four years. She earned All-American honors in 1992. Also as a competitor she earned qualified for the NCAA three times. She was inducted in the University of Utah Crimson Club Hall of Fame and received the Dave Freed Award through Utah Tennis Association.
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She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Behavioral Science and Health.
She is married to Jason Allen and has four children, Calvin, Anna, Roxy, and Coco.
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