Wake Forest Athletics
Fleishman Named Head Women's Tennis Coach
6/21/1999 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
April 20, 1999
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.- Brian Fleishman, an assistant coach with the Wake Forest women's tennis program for the past two seasons, has been promoted to head coach of the Demon Deacons, Director of Athletics Ron Wellman announced today. Fleishman has served as the team's interim head coach since March 26, when 12-year head coach Lew Gerrard resigned.
"Brian has demonstrated the characteristics that we look for in a head coach these last four weeks," said Wellman. "He has taken over the team and done a superb job."
Fleishman joined the Wake Forest staff as an assistant women's tennis coach in 1997, helping the Deacons to a No. 11 national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Quarterfinals in the spring of 1998. The team currently stands at 13-9 overall and 7-1 in the ACC, and the Deacons are riding a four-match winning streak into the 1999 ACC Championships this weekend in Atlanta.
Prior to Wake Forest, Fleishman served two seasons as an assistant coach at William & Mary, where he helped the Tribe to its highest national ranking in school history (No. 7) and was the ITA Eastern Regional Assistant Coach of the Year in 1997.
From 1991 to 1995, Fleishman servedas the junior programs coordinator at the Van Der Meer Tennis Academy in Hilton Head, SC, where he coached and traveled with several ranked players on the ATP and WTA professional tours. He also coached players at the Australian Open, the French Open, and Wimbledon during that time.
Fleishman is a 1991 graduate of Christopher Newport University, where he received a B.A. in sports management.
