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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
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 26th season in Aggieland and his 10th 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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, 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. 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.
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.
