THE WEAVER FILE

COACHING RESUME

1999-2007: Volunteer Assistant Coach, Texas A&M
2007-13: Assistant Coach, Texas A&M
2013-15: Associate Head Coach, Texas A&M
2015-: Head Coach, Texas A&M

YEAR-BY-YEAR RECORD

2016: 17-11 (.607), NCAA 2nd Round
2017: 18-13 (.581), NCAA Sweet 16
2018: 17-11 (.607), NCAA 2nd Round
2019: 24-8 (.750), NCAA Sweet 16
2020: 13-4 (.765), canceled (COVID-19)
2021: 21-8 (.724), NCAA Sweet 16
2022: 33-2 (.943), NCAA Elite Eight
2023: 30-3 (.909), NCAA Elite Eight
2024: 28-7 (.800), National Champions
A&M Total (9 years): 201-67 (.750)

COACHING HIGHLIGHTS

2023 SEC Coach of the Year
2023 ITA Texas Region Coach of the Year
2022 SEC Coach of the Year
2022 ITA Texas Region Coach of the Year
2022 ITA National Coach of the Year Finalist
2019 ITA Texas Region Coach of the Year
2019 ITA National Coach of the Year Finalist
2014 ITA Texas Region Assistant Coach of the Year

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

1990-94: Texas A&M
- 1990-91: 34-13 singles, 15-8 doubles
- 1991-92: 22-13 singles, 11-6 doubles
- 1992-93: 24-11 singles, 20-6 doubles
- 1993-94: 27-15 singles, 30-9 doubles

PLAYING HIGHLIGHTS

1991 Southwest Region Rookie of the Year
1991 Southwest Conference No. 3 Doubles Champion
1992 All-Southwest Conference
1993 Southwest Conference Co-Player of the Year
1993 Southwest Conference No. 1 Singles Champion
1993 Junior Davis Cup Participant
1993 NCAA Individual Championships participant (Singles and Doubles)
1994 Southwest Conference No. 1 Doubles Champion
1994 NCAA Individual Championships participant (Singles and Doubles)

BY THE NUMBERS

1 National Championship
1 ITA National Player of the Year
2 appearances in the NCAA Championship Match
2 Conference Players of the Year
4 Elite Eight appearances
7 conference championships
10 Sweet 16 appearances
19 All-America honors
24 consecutive NCAA Tournament Appearances
26 seasons at Texas A&M entering 2024-25
66 All-Conference Honorees

The status of Texas A&M’s Mark Weaver as one of the top head coaches in women’s collegiate continues to grow.

In May 2024, Weaver brought home the grand prize, leading the program to its first national title. He guided the Aggies through a gauntlet of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia by a combine tally of 24-4 in the six matches.

During the season, the Aggies earned their third consecutive SEC regular-season title, ending the campaign with a 12-1 league ledger and 28-7 overall mark.

The 2024-25 campaign is Weaver’s 26^th season in Aggieland and his 10^th at the helm of the A&M women’s tennis team. During his storied tenure, he has been a part of 24 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, 10 Round of 16 berths, seven conference titles, four Elite Eight appearances and NCAA Championship final match appearances in 2013 and 2024. He has played a major role in coaching 11 Aggies to a total of 19 All-America designations, including both of A&M’s doubles All-American pairings during his time as head coach.

Originally hired as a volunteer assistant under legendary head coach Bobby Kleinecke in 2000, Weaver has racked up a litany of coaching honors and accolades while simultaneously establishing a tremendous track record both on and off the court. Kleinecke promoted Weaver to the assistant coaching position in 2007, with new head coach Howard Joffe once again promoting Weaver to the title of Associate Head Coach in 2013. After a national runner-up finish in 2013 and another stellar season in 2014, Weaver was named the ITA Texas Region Assistant Coach of the Year. Following his ascent to the head coaching position in 2015-16, he continuously built a winning culture and was rewarded with the Wilson ITA Texas Region Coach of the Year Award in 2019, also receiving acclaim as a Wilson ITA Coach of the Year finalist that same season. In 2022, Weaver once again claimed the Wilson ITA Texas Region Coach of the Year Award and tacked on another national finalist finish. He also earned recognition as the Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year in 2022 after A&M’s record-setting 33-2 overall campaign that included a 13-0 regular season SEC finish, topped off by the program’s first SEC Tournament Championship later that year. In 2023, Weaver was named back-to-back Wilson ITA Texas Region Coach of the Year and Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year following another 13-0 regular season campaign.

On the recruiting trail, Weaver and his assistants have cultivated a record of success that is unparalleled across women’s college tennis. With the help of a strong corps of assistant coaches, Weaver has repeatedly signed the highest rated recruiting classes in Texas A&M program history, with both the 2021 and 2018 signing classes rated in the top-two nationally. A&M’s 2022 signing group finished as the third-highest ranked class in school annals, ranking as the No. 3 group in the cycle. In his three most recent signing classes, Weaver has amassed seven blue chip recruits according to TennisRecruiting.net and has consistently added five-star American players and impressive international prospects into the mix. As an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator prior to 2015, Weaver was instrumental in the recruitment and cultivation of superstar Aggie talents and All-Americans in Rachel Pierson, Saska Gavrilovska, Cristina Stancu and Cristina Sanchez-Quintanar.

The second son of Jerry and Darlene Weaver, Mark William Weaver was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in the summer of 1972. He attended the Caddo Parish Magnet High School and moved on to receive his undergraduate education at Texas A&M.

A proud member of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Class of 1994, Weaver holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from A&M. He has one daughter, Natalie Lynn Weaver, born in 2012. His beginnings in tennis are rooted in a close relationship with his family and a deep love of the game. His father took up the game of tennis in his 30’s and fell in love with the sport, ultimately serving as the young Weaver’s first tennis coach. From his inaugural lesson at age five, Weaver continued to train with his father until his competitive days came to an end, and his dedication to the sport is constantly present in his efforts training the next generation of Aggie tennis stars.

Following a strong start in junior tennis, Weaver arrived on the Texas A&M campus in the fall of 1990 and joined longtime head coach David Kent’s Aggie men’s tennis squad. During his freshman season he posted a stellar 34-13 singles record coupled with a 15-8 season in doubles, also winning the Southwest Conference No. 3 Doubles Championship in the process. His impressive introductory effort warranted 1991 Southwest Region Rookie of the Year honors. Weaver’s success continued the following year as he earned a spot on the All-Southwest Conference Team. His junior season would prove to be his breakout effort, dominating all comers in the SWC in 1993 for 24 singles victories and 20 additional wins in doubles. To top things off, he won the Southwest Conference No. 1 Singles title, was named SWC Co-Player of the Year, and played his way into the NCAA Individual Championships in both singles and doubles. Additionally, he was named a participant in the Junior Davis Cup in 1993. Weaver concluded his collegiate career in 1994 with a 27-15 singles season while accumulating 30 doubles wins, good enough for the SWC No. 1 Doubles crown and another trip to the NCAA Individual Championships.

Professionally following graduation, Weaver played for four seasons on the Futures and Challengers circuits, winning 10 doubles championships along the way.

When his playing career wrapped up, Weaver worked as a senior staff manager and director of tennis at Briarcrest Country Club in Bryan, Texas, from 1999-2006, coaching private lessons in addition. In 2006 Weaver left Briarcrest to focus solely on private coaching, with one of his standout students, Austin Klores, becoming a four-time high school state champion and reaching as high as the No. 1 position in the USTA Boys 18’s.

Throughout his experience in private coaching, Weaver worked closely alongside members of the Aggie women’s tennis staff headlined by the aforementioned Kleinecke. His work as a volunteer assistant began in the 2000 season in which the Aggies went 16-11 with a 9-2 finish in Big 12 Conference play. From there, A&M improved its win total each year for the next three seasons, culminating in a 2003 Big 12 Conference Regular Season Championship. The following season, Texas A&M won its first Big 12 Tournament Championship and advanced to the NCAA Round of 16 for the first time in program history, setting a then-program record for wins in a single season. In his span as a volunteer assistant, Weaver played a key role in guiding 15 singles performers and 10 doubles teams to All-Big 12 Conference laurels from 2000 through the 2007 campaign. In both 2004 and 2005, Weaver was a part of a staff that coached a pair of singles All-Americans in Jessica Roland and Helga Vieira.

Just before the start of the 2007-08 season, Kleinecke announced that Weaver would join the Aggie women’s tennis program as a full-time assistant coach. During his work as an assistant, the Aggies strung together four consecutive seasons finishing in fourth place or higher in the Big 12 Conference Standings, adding an additional seven singles athletes and three doubles duos to the All-Big 12 Conference Team. Weaver also coached multiple players throughout the lineup to Big 12 Championships at their respective positions, with Morgan Frank taking home a conference championship title at her singles slot in every season of Weaver’s assistantship.

Just before the start of the 2011-12 academic year, Texas A&M elected to take the women’s tennis program in a new direction by hiring the Johannesburg, South Africa, native Howard Joffe as the program’s fifth skipper. Joffe elected to retain Weaver as his assistant coach, and as a duo they achieved some of the most storied successes in the history of Aggie tennis. Weaver’s first season alongside Joffe saw A&M finish 19-6 with a second place finish in the Maroon & White’s final season in the Big 12 Conference. That initial success catapulted the Aggies into the national spotlight the following year, winning a then-record 26 matches as well as Texas A&M’s first regular season conference championship in any sport since joining the Southeastern Conference. A&M then began its historic run in the 2013 postseason, reaching the NCAA Championship match for the first time in program history and elevating A&M to the forefront of women’s college tennis.

The next year, Weaver was promoted to the position of Associate Head Coach, helping the Aggies maintain the high level of play established the year before. Throughout Joffe’s tenure with A&M, Weaver coached the team’s only Big 12 Player of the Year and two-time All-American in Cristina Sanchez-Quintanar in 2012 and 2013, as well as two other All-American seasons by Cristina Stancu in 2014 and Saska Gavrilovska in 2015. After joining the Southeastern Conference, Weaver coached four Aggies to a place on the All-SEC First Team with four more student athletes picking up All-SEC Second Team honors in his role as associate head coach.

Following Joffe’s departure in the summer of 2015, then-Texas A&M Director of Athletics Eric Hyman promoted Weaver, making him the sixth head coach in the history of the Texas A&M women’s tennis program. In his inaugural season at the helm, Weaver directed A&M to the second round of the NCAA Championships, where the Aggies narrowly fell to eventual national champion Stanford, 4-3. Texas A&M finished the season 17-11 with a No. 19 final ranking.

The 2016-17 team accomplished significant feats during Weaver’s second season as head coach, including a first-ever victory over No. 2 Georgia to mark the highest ranked win in school history. The Aggies, who also recorded a first-ever win over perennial power Duke at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships, advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time since Weaver assumed the head coach position the prior year. Individually, seniors Rachel Pierson and Rutuja Bhosale became the first Aggies in program history to earn All-America honors in doubles after receiving a No. 5-8 seed in the NCAA Doubles Championship. Pierson also garnered All-America laurels in singles to become the first A&M player to earn All-America honors in both classifications.

Weaver’s success continued the following year as the Aggies reached a 17-11 overall record and booked a pair of impressive ranked victories against No. 17 Tennessee and No. 25 Mississippi State, ultimately advancing to the Second Round of the NCAA Championships later on that year. It would be the 2018-19 season, however, that would serve as the ultimate test of Weaver’s coaching prowess. With one of the youngest rosters in the SEC, the Aggies would accumulate the second most wins in program history with a 24-8 record highlighted by victories over No. 4 Vanderbilt and No. 21 Kentucky. A&M entered the NCAA Tournament and came away with a 4-3 thriller against the Rice Owls before dominating the No. 9 Texas Longhorns on the road for a 4-1 win and a berth in the Round of 16. Katya Townsend and Jayci Goldsmith would each go on to receive spots on the All-SEC Second Team and SEC All-Freshman Team. His coaching efforts that season garnered an ITA Texas Region Coach of the Year Award as well as recognition as an ITA Coach of the Year finalist.

A&M was riding high following its stunning performance in the 2019 dual match season and looked for more of the same success in 2020. Unfortunately, after a strong 13-4 start to the year, the COVID-19 pandemic marked the abrupt end of all intercollegiate athletics, shutting down the campaign near the start of SEC regular season matches. It would be almost a full year before the Aggies could return to action, and in January of 2021, A&M came back with a vengeance. The Maroon & White battled with COVID protocols and harsh winter weather, but managed to complete a 21-8 season that featured eight ranked team victories, A&M’s first-ever appearance in the SEC Championship Match, and yet another Sweet 16 berth after defeating No. 21 Northwestern, 4-2, on the road in Evanston, Illinois. Additionally, Weaver added two more All-America honors to his acclaimed coaching history as the tandem of Tatiana Makarova and Jayci Goldsmith reached the NCAA Individual Championships National Quarterfinals, automatically placing them as ITA All-Americans. Makarova garnered the second All-American recognition of the year, earning a spot as an ITA Singles All-American after receiving the No. 19 spot in the final singles rankings. Under Weaver’s coaching, Makarova became the second Aggie to collect All-America honors in both singles and doubles since Rachel Pierson accomplished the same feat in 2017.

Texas A&M followed their historic run in 2021 up with the winningest season in program history in 2022, as the Aggies would notch an A&M-record 33-2 overall ledger in the dual match campaign. The Aggies earned the first double conference championship in school history after going a perfect 13-0 in the SEC Regular Season before claiming the school’s first SEC Tournament Championship later that year. Weaver became the only head coach in A&M history to record multiple victories against SEC-powerhouse programs Florida, Georgia and Vanderbilt in a single season. The Aggies’ stunning 7-0 defeat of then-No. 7 Georgia on the road in Athens propelled A&M to its highest ranking since falling in the National Championship match in 2013. In addition, Weaver directed A&M to its second-best NCAA Tournament finish in program annals, reaching the National Quarterfinals before falling in heartbreaking 4-3 fashion to No. 2 Oklahoma. In the postseason, Makarova and Goldsmith were once again named ITA Doubles All-Americans, while former junior Grand Slam Champion and spring addition Carson Branstine took home her first ITA Singles All-America honor. In recognition of one of the most historic seasons in conference history, the SEC granted Weaver the 2022 Coach of the Year award as voted on by his peers. Additionally, Weaver garnered the second Wilson ITA Texas Region Coach of the Year award of his career, coupled with another National Coach of the Year finalist finish.