Josh Molino is the head coach of the men's tennis program at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), having taken the helm in 2024. Molino is USPTA certified as a specialist in competitive player development.
Molino's career has already seen significant success with the University of Tulsa winning the 2024 UTR Sports NIT Championship, two first team All-AAC Selections and an NCAA singles qualifier in Pierce Rollins. In his head coaching stop at Kansas Wesleyan University, Molino won multiple awards including the 2022 Wilson ITA NAIA Central Region Men's Coach of the Year.
Molino comes to Southwest Florida after serving as Tulsa's assistant men's tennis coach since June 2023. The Golden Hurricane were one of the best mid-major programs in the country last season, consistently placing in the ITA top 25 mid-major rankings. Molino helped guide Tulsa to the NIT Championship after securing the No. 1 seed in the tournament and only dropping two courts over the three matches that included wins over No. 51 Pacific University and No. 55 Santa Clara University. Molino's squad also earned wins over No. 31 Princeton University and No. 43 Southern Methodist University.
Prior to his year with Tulsa, Molino got his start in collegiate coaching at Kansas Wesleyan, where he won multiple awards including the 2022 Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, 2022 Wilson ITA NAIA Central Region Men's Coach of the Year, 2021-22 USPTA Missouri Valley Collegiate Coach of the Year and 2019 USTA Missouri Kansas High Performance Coach of the Year.
Molino graduated from the University of Central Florida with a bachelor's degree in sport and fitness.
Josh Molino
Jack Murray joined the Eagles men's coaching staff in October 2024. Murray previously coached at Michigan State in 2018-19 and at his alma mater, UNC, in 2019-20 as a volunteer assistant coach. In the COVID-shortened 2020 season in Chapel Hill, Murray was part of the coaching staff that saw Simon Soendergaard and Mac Kiger win the ITA Regional doubles title before falling in the indoor national semifinals. The spring slate has the Tar Heels at 12-1 having only lost seven points before the season was canceled.
Murray is an accomplished player. He was a four year starter at UNC, racking up 200 combined wins in singles and doubles, en route to All-American honors in 2016. Murray knows what it means to be successful as a player on the courts as part of the first team in UNC history to win the ITA National Team Indoor Championship in 2016. As a player with the Tar Heels, Murray was part of three team elite eights and one team final at the NCAA Championships.