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Coaching Staff
Amanda Foukas
Head Coach
Amanda Foukas is in
her second season as
the head coach of the
Hofstra Men’s and Women’s
Tennis program.
Foukas joined the Pride
staff after serving as a tennis
professional at Little Silver
Tennis Club in Little Silver,
New Jersey, since September of
2007.
Prior to her position at Little Silver, Foukas served as the
assistant men’s and women’s tennis coach at Stony Brook
University in Stony Brook, New York, from August 2005 until
August 2007. While serving as an assistant coach, both programs
had unprecedented success as the men won the America East
title and advanced to the NCAA Championship for the first time
in school history in 2006. The women, meanwhile, advanced to
the conference semifinals twice and both programs were honored
with Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Academic accolades.
While a member of the Seawolves staff, Foukas assisted
in all aspects of the program including the recruitment of
domestic and international student-athletes, scheduling
and NCAA compliance issues. Foukas also took part in all
practice and match preparations and was responsible for
the coordination and execution of fundraising programs,
alumni activities and community outreach initiatives.
Foukas’ extensive tennis experience in the New York
metropolitan area began when she served as an assistant
men’s and women’s tennis coach at Wagner College in
Staten Island, New York from August 2003 until June of
2005.
A 2002 graduate of Rutgers University in New Brunswick,
New Jersey, Foukas graduated with a bachelor of arts
degree in communications, mass media and library studies
and a minor in English. Foukas was a four-year member of
the women’s tennis team at Rutgers and earned team Most
Valuable Player honors in 2002 and was the program’s
Rookie of the Year in 1999. During her career she
accumulated over 100 singles and doubles victories.
Foukas, who also has a master’s degree in education from
Wagner (2005), resides in Brooklyn, New York, with
her husband, Savvas, an attorney, and their daughter,
Evangeline.
Philip Wayne
Assistant Coach
Philip Wayne is in his first
season as an assistant
tennis coach for Hofstra’s
men’s and women’s tennis
team. Wayne played singles and
doubles for four years at the
University of Delaware.
Wayne joins the Pride staff after
serving as Finley Junior High
School’s head tennis coach in
2009. While at the Huntington-based school, Wayne instructed
16 seventh and eighth graders in the fundamentals of tennis to
prepare them for the varsity level.
Prior to joining Finley’s program, Wayne worked as an assistant
tennis coach in Pasadena, Maryland’s Northeast High School,
where he conducted the team’s practices and in-match strategy
sessions.
While earning a B.A. degree with concentrations in journalism
and political science at Delaware, Wayne was a successful
doubles player from 2002-06. He is currently fourth on the Blue
Hens’ alltime
doubles
victories
list with 43.
Wayne won
a total of
22 singles
matches,
including a
9-1 record
during the
2004-05
season.
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Wayne
earned a
master’s
degree in
teaching
from Loyola
College in
August 2008.
He spent the
next year
teaching
senior
economics at
Huntington
High School.
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