Coach Koger Announced Retirement as Women's Tennis Coach

Ann Koger recently completed her 35th year as head coach of women’s tennis at Haverford College in 2015-16. Under her leadership, the women’s tennis team has an all-time record of 359-241. She has coached three conference singles champions, two conference doubles champions, and a host of players with conference, regional, and national rankings. The program attained the 300-win milestone with a 6-3 victory over Meredith (N.C.) College on March 10, 2011.

Koger's devotion to tennis has earned her a spot in the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Middle States Hall of Fame Class of 2010 along with Dennis Alter, Robert Jordan, Lisa Raymond and Ron Woods. She was also selected as a member of the Black Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2010 and was inducted into the Hall of Achievement at the Philadelphia Association of Black Sports and Culture, Inc.'s Annual Recognition Banquet.

Haverford has made the Centennial Conference Tournament during seven of the last eight seasons under Koger. During the spring of 2014, the Fords advanced to their first-ever Centennial Conference Tournament championship match with a 5-3 win against Franklin & Marshall in the CC semifinals. In 2015, Haverford continued its rise by winning 15 matches in a season for the first time since the 1999 season.

Koger is a certified USPTR teaching professional and a member of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). Her educational background includes B.S. and M.S. degrees from Morgan State University, and an Ed.D. in Sports Administration from Temple University.

In her 20th year of serving as a USTA Section National Coach and USTA/MS volunteer, Koger has coached several professional, district, section, national ranked players. She led the USTA/Middle States to a fifth-place finish nationally at the USTA Girls 18 and under National Team Championships held in Claremont, Calif., in August, 2013.

Koger was a four-year letterwinner in four of the seven varsity sports she competed in while at Morgan State University, and was inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982. Koger played on the Virginia Slims circuit from 1973-77. She has been ranked at many levels of play in the USTA and ATA, and was PTR/PA Player of the Year in 1998 and PTR International Player of the Year in 1999. She was named Coach of the Year for the USTA/Philadelphia in 1991 and PTR/PA in 1993.

Honored by many organizations throughout her career, Koger received a national community service award from USTA/Volvo/ITA in 1989 and another from USTA for Division III in 1996. She was awarded the Montgomery Co. Links, Inc., Wilma Rudolph Award and the Philadelphia Congress of the National Political Congress of Black Women Shirley Chisholm Award in 1995. Koger was named the 1992 Stephen Cary Award winner for her commitment and dedication to women’s athletics at Haverford.

A 2000 Presidential appointee to the USTA Executive Committee, Koger is a member in many other organizations, including AAHPERD, the Women’s Sports Foundation, the Urban League of Philadelphia, the USTA/ Middle States Diversity and Inclusion Committe (2010-present) and the NCAA Division III Atlantic South Region Ranking Committee (2011-present). Ann Koger is serving her third year as the PTR-PA Reporter for Tennis Pro Magazine (The International Magazine for PTR Tennis Teachers and Coaches).  This publication is distributed on line and in hard copy several times a year.

The First Vice President of the American Tennis Association, Koger was the co-director of 1985 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championships, which were held at Haverford College. She has served on the USTA/MS/PATD executive committee and board of directors, and many other USTA sectional and national committees.

Koger remains active in several community service activities such as serving as the Head Coach, Director of Programs and a member of the Board of Directors for the Bill Johnson Youth Tennis program, based in Philadelphia. She was the 2004 Chairperson for the USTA/MS Collegiate Committee and spent two years on the USTA National Collegiate Committee.

Koger officiated at many levels of basketball for 25 years, and in 1985, she became the first woman to officiate an NCAA Division I men’s basketball game. A charter member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, Koger also was Haverford’s first volleyball coach, a position that she held for 15 years while amassing a 159-155 record.

Koger was honored as part of the 2007 International Tennis Hall of Fame Exhibit ‘Breaking the Barriers’ at the 2007 US Open in New York, N.Y. as an accomplished and pioneering professional tennis player and as a contributor to the exhibit through artifacts and oral history. Koger was honored and received awards during June, 2008 from the Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education Center in Philadelphia and the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I. She also received an award in July, 2008 during the American Tennis Association New England Open Championships for ‘Breaking the Barriers’ in the sport of tennis. The exhibit is currently traveling the country and housed in the Black Tennis History Museum. In October of 2013, Koger will be honored by the Black Sports Legend Foundation as part of Morgan State University's Homecoming festivities.

More recently, Koger participated in the 2012 Schomburg Center Sports Research Salon titled 'The Importance of Sports in Black Women's Lives and What's Not Being Said about the Title IX Anniversary' moderated by William Rhoden from the New York Times. She was honored at the halftime of the Morgan State University Homecoming Football game by the Black Sports Legends Foundation on October 5, 2013.

Koger most recently served as 2015 Coach of the United States Tennis Association Middle States Girls 18 National Team Championship. Koger was also a Presidential Suite guest of the current President of the United States Tennis Association, Katrina Adams, at the 2015 U.S. Open in New York. Koger was featured for 10 month in the 2015 exhibit 'Untold Story' at the Banneker-Douglas Museum in Annapolis, MD.  Her portion of the exhibit as well as other Morgan State Athletic memorabilia will be featured at Morgan State University in the near future.

Also In 2015, Koger was elected and appointed to a second term of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Board of Directors and serves as a member of the ITA Small College Operating Committee. Her most recent honors came when she was named the 2016 Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Coach of the Year. She was also recognized for her dedication to youth sports on during Nelson Mandela day in June of 2015.