Presbyterian College

COACHING CAREER HIGHLIGHTS…
* Seven Conference Championships (Three Regular-Season and Four Tournament titles)
* Four NCAA Tournament team appearances
* Two NCAA Singles Tournament and one NCAA Doubles Team Tournament participants
* Coached two nationally-ranked singles players and four nationally-ranked doubles teams
* Coached three League Players of the Year and three League Freshman of the Year
* Coached eight teams that have been recognized as ITA All-Academic teams and 45 ITA Scholar-Athletes
* Coached 30 All-Conference Singles selections and 14 All-Conference Doubles teams 
* Served on the ITA Carolina Regional Committee
* With Presbyterian's win over Radford (April 2, 2024), he moved into a tie for 10th place on the Big South coaching wins list with his 88th victory as a coach in the Big South. 

COACHING CAREER AT PRESBYTERIAN
John Collins, the only head coach in Big South men's tennis history to win the regular-season championship at two different member schools, is in his fifth season at the helm of the Blue Hose men’s tennis program.
 
In 2024, Collins guided the Blue Hose to a spot in the Big South Tournament semifinals. Evgenios Vasilakis was the Big South Freshman of the Year. Five players earned All-Big South accolades: Javier Matos and Denim Yadav were named First Team All-Big South Doubles, Matos, David Mamalat and Pedro Cardoso were Second Team All-Big South Singles, and Mamalat and Marco Foglieni were Second Team All-Big South Doubles honorees.

In 2023, Collins led the Blue Hose to 16 wins, a share of the Big South Regular-Season title, the Big South Tournament title, and a bid to the NCAA Tournament. Dusan Milanovic became the first player in the program’s history to earn a spot in the NCAA Division I Singles Tournament as well as the ITA National Fall Championship while reaching the championship match of the ITA Carolina Regional. Milanovic and doubles partner Max Benson became the first doubles duo in the program’s history to earn a spot in the NCAA Division I Doubles Tournament. They also competed as a doubles pair in the ITA National Fall Championship. Milanovic was the Big South Player of the Year. Denim Yadav claimed the Big South Freshman of the Year award. Five players garnered All-Big South accolades: Benson, Milanovic, and Yadav were named first-team singles, and Milanovic and Benson were named first-team doubles team. Sebastian Dominguez and Javier Matos were second-team singles and doubles selections.
 
In 2022, Collins guided the Blue Hose to 14 wins and a trip to the semifinals of the Big South Tournament. Milanovic was named Big South Freshman of the Year. Nicholas McKinney captured Big South Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors. PC had four players who earned All-Big South accolades. Milanovic earned first-team singles and doubles honors, Benson was a first-team doubles and second-team singles selection and Dominguez and Matos were second-team singles and doubles selection.

In 2021, Collins led the program to its second Big South Championship in the school's DI history after defeating Radford in the Big South Championship. He led the Blue Hose to an 11-7 mark in his first season leading Presbyterian. Benson earned the program's second Big South Player of the Year honor and first since 2014. PC had three others receive all-conference honors as McKinney earned first-team honors, Matos won second team for singles and the pair of Georgije Babic and Benson won first-team doubles. 

OTHER COACHING EXPERIENCE
Collins came to Presbyterian after serving as the head coach of the Winthrop men's tennis program from August 2015 until the summer of 2020. Collins first joined the Eagles' program in August 2014 as a graduate assistant.

In just his third season at the helm, Collins led Winthrop to the 2018 Big South Conference Regular Season Championship with an undefeated league record of 7-0. In his first year as a graduate assistant, Collins was part of an Eagles team that won the 2015 Big South Conference Tournament and played in the 2015 NCAA Team Championships.
 
Collins had at least one student-athlete named to the Big South All-Conference teams in each of his years at Winthrop, with four players earning honors in 2018. Diego Quiroz was a four-time All-Conference honoree. Collins coached doubles tandem Quiroz and Ruy Teixeira to a career-high ITA National Doubles Ranking of No. 42 in the fall of 2017.
 
Collins' squads at Winthrop have been recognized as ITA All-Academic Teams each year under his direction. During the 2018 fall and 2019 spring semesters, Winthrop set new records for team-highs in cumulative GPA, with both semesters over a 3.5.
 
Before he arrived at Winthrop, Collins was a volunteer assistant coach at Elon where he coached Cameron Silverman, the Southern Conference Player of the Year, at the 2014 NCAA Singles Championships. Collins also helped Elon to its best year in program history with a No. 39 ITA team national ranking and a pair of titles winning the 2014 Southern Conference Regular Season Championship and Tournament Championship.

Collins is certified as a Professional Tennis Instructor by the Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) and has also coached several ranked junior players.

PLAYING CAREER
Collins was an excellent collegiate player at both Maryland and Tennessee and a four-year member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). In his senior season at Tennessee, Collins ranked as high as sixth nationally in doubles and advanced to the SEC Tournament final and the quarterfinals of the NCAA Team Championship with the fifth-ranked Volunteers. In 2012, Collins won the ITA Ohio Valley Regional in doubles with Mikelis Libietis and competed in the Main Draw of the ITA All-American Championships and the ITA Fall National Indoor Championships both in doubles for the second straight season.
 
Collins competed in his first three years at Maryland, where he reached ninth nationally in doubles and a No. 121 national ranking in singles. While Collins was at Maryland the Terrapins advanced to the NCAA Team Championship for the first time ever in 2011 and defeated  No. 18 Michigan in the first round. In 2011, Collins won the ITA Atlantic Regional in doubles and would go on to compete in the 2012 NCAA Doubles Championships that same school year alongside his partner, Maros Horny.

During his standout collegiate career, Collins played several professional events including Futures on the ITF Men’s Circuit, and competed in the Lexington Challenger and the Knoxville Challenger on the ATP Challenger Tour.
 
EDUCATION
Collins graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor’s Degree in History in 2013. In 2017, he graduated from Winthrop with a Master’s in Business Administration.
 
FAMILY
Collins and his wife Megan and their daughter Adeline (1) ive in Clinton, South Carolina.