Coach Andy Harader
ANDY HARADER is Head Coach at Palo Alto High School for both girls and boys tennis teams. Also, for the last five years, he was chairman of the Santa Clara Athletic League - Boys' Tennis. He has held positions as Secretary, Head Regional Director, and Peninsula Regional Director of the NorCal Division of the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA). In 2007 he was awarded the NorCal USPTA, "HIGH SCHOOL COACH OF THE YEAR."
Teaching Experience
His teaching experiences range far and wide. For over 20 years he taught in colleges and universities, including; four years at community colleges in San Francisco, Monterey, and Baltimore, a year at UC Davis, and ten years at University of California at Santa Cruz.
As coach of the Paly boys teams for 9 years, his teams have accrued eight championships of local tournaments, were semi-finalists and finalists in the Central Coast Sectionals CIF (team), and in 1998 took third place at the first NorCal Championships, at Stanford.
Educational Experience
Andy's formal educational experience has taken him to the East Coast, as well as abroad. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from San Jose State University, two Master of Arts Degrees - one from Cal State University at Long Beach and the other from the Maryland Institute. In 1978 he was awarded an "at large" full grant by the Fulbright-Hays Association to live and work in Firenze, Italia for a year.
Informally, he has three years mixed-media martial arts training, CPR and First Aid training, USPTA - 20 course credits/year, USTA Sports Science course work, and a California Emergency Teaching Credential.
Playing Experience
- 1996 - DOUBLES CHAMPION: SFTC Team Mazatlan Dual-Meet, Mexico
- 2002, 1994,1992, and 1985 - CHAMPION: Soda Canyon Annual Tennis Tournament., Napa
- 1993 - DOUBLES CHAMPION, Corporate Club of America Tournament, San Francisco Tennis Club
USTA Adult League
- 1996 - 2nd Place winners - NATIONAL Championships, Tucson, AZ
- 1996 - Northern California Senior Champs * Napa, CA
- 1995 - Upper Peninsula League Champs
- 1993 - 4th Place winners - NATIONAL Championships, Tucson, AZ
- 1993 - Northern California Champs, Carmel, CA
- 1992 - Upper Peninsula League Champs