Women's Tennis Coaching Staff
- Head Coach Eddie Luck - Podcast
Eddie Luck was hired as the Quakers' head men's tennis coach January 2008. Luck brought extensive coaching experience to the job, which now includes an 83-44 record in seven years as a men's tennis coach and a 143-49 mark in nine seasons as a women's head coach. He replaced Jenn Anderson '96, who resigned following seven seasons to take a similar job at Bishop McGuinness Catholic (N.C.) High School.
Luck inherits a veteran Guilford squad with seven letter winners back from last year's 7-9 team (5-5 Old Dominion Athletic Conference).
Luck started his college coaching career at NCAA Division II Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., as the head women's tennis coach, a position he held from 1992 to 2000. In his eight seasons as the women's coach, Luck complied a school-record 136-40 mark and won three Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Women's Coach of the Year Awards. He led the squad to an 83-0 conference record, eight of their 16 consecutive league titles and made six NCAA Division II National Tournament appearances. As the Bulldogs' men's coach from 1993-96, Luck's teams went 54-19, including a 24-2 in the league. He won the 1994 GLIAC Men's Tennis Coach of the Year Award and ranks third among Ferris State's all-time coaching wins and winning percentage (.739) leaders.
A Ramseur, N.C., native, Luck played three seasons at Campbell University before finishing his college career at Ferris State, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business marketing in 1988. While working as a graduate assistant tennis coach to Arlo Elkins, he earned his master's degree in social studies and history from the University of South Carolina. Luck is certified as a P1 Tennis Professional by the United States Professional Tennis Association.
Krystal Parrish '09 begins her first season as the Quakers' student assistant women's tennis coach. Parrish, who also exhausted her eligibility last year, remains with the club, but will be missed in the second singles and first doubles flights.
A three-year team captain, Parrish posted a career 35-43 singles mark and 28-50 doubles mark in her four years playing for the Quakers. While at Guilford she occupied the either the first or second-singles and doubles slots throughout her career..
Parrish played four years locally for Coach Emily Weddington's Grimsley H.S. squad where she was All-Metro Conference performer. She is set to graduate this May with a psychology major and criminal justice minor.