Lycoming College

Entering his 13th year as head coach of the men's and women's tennis programs, LeRoy Baer has racked up an impressive resume, including coaching the College's first MAC Individual Champion, two MAC Scholar-Athletes, 17 All-MAC selections and 69 ITA Scholar-Athletes.

In his career, Baer has helped mentor five singles players and one doubles team to the championship match at the MAC Individual Championships, including the MAC Champion at No. 1 singles in 2012-13, Jason Mifsud. He has also coached the women's program to ITA All-Academic Team status seven times and the men's program to the award six times. His players have broken nine school wins records. 

Most recently, he helped coach Hannah Summerson during the 2019-20 season, when she set school career records in doubles (45) and combined wins (93), despite the season ending early due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He became just the third tennis coach at Lycoming College to reach 100 career wins during 2021-22, as he has won 56 matches with the women's team and 47 matches as the men's team mentor, joining women's tennis coach Deb Holmes (1976-2009, 137) and men's tennis coach Nels Phillips (1960-79, 111) in the exclusive group.
 
He helped the women's tennis team make a repeat trip to the MAC Commonwealth Championship in 2017-18, posting a 10-8 record, reaching 10 wins in consecutive seasons for the first time in program history. In the conference tournament, the team narrowly fell to the eventual champion Lebanon Valley, 5-4. The team featured two First Team All-MAC Commonwealth selections, including Summerson, who set a school-record with 16 singles wins during the season. Summerson also became the first Warrior to reach the MAC Individual Championship since 2012, doing so at the No. 2 singles flight. On the men's side, the team won six matches for the third straight year, while he coached Rob Smith to Second Team All-MAC Commonwealth honors, as he finished his career second in school history with 35 career singles wins.

In 2016-17, Baer helped the women's tennis team to a school-record 13-win season while guiding the team to its first MAC Commonwealth Championship appearance in six years. Coaching two Second Team All-MAC Commonwealth selections in Summerson and Kaitlin Hallabuk, he oversaw an eight-win improvement. Summerson also rewrote the school's single-season record book, setting program records for doubles (15) and combined (29) wins in a season. 

In 2014-15, Shannon Sheridan became the first women's tennis player to earn the MAC's Scholar Athlete award since 2006. During the 2012-13 year, Baer mentored Mifsud to one of the finest seasons in program history, as he posted a 15-1 singles record en route to both MAC Scholar Athlete and Commonwealth Conference Player of the Year honors.

In 2010-11, Baer helped guide the Warriors' women's program, which had won just two conference matches in three years as a member of the Commonwealth Conference and led the team to three conference wins and its first appearance in the conference tournament. Rebecca Reynolds also reached the finals in the fourth flight of singles at the MAC Individual Championships.

On the men's side, the team finished 8-4 overall and reached the Commonwealth Conference title match for the second year in a row before falling to Elizabethtown. He mentored three all-conference selections in David and Robert Brown and Mifsud, also helping Robert Brown to Second Team Capital One Academic All-American accolades.

After a distinguished career in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in 2004, Baer began a return to the sport that he loved from his youth - tennis.