Coaches

Bob Jordan, Head Coach

Bob Jordan '71 enters his second season as his alma mater's head men's tennis coach in 2008-09 while he enjoys his 15th season at the helm of the women's team.

In his past eight seasons with the women, Jordan has coached a Middle Atlantic Conference singles champion (Tara McHugh in 2002), two MAC Commonwealth Players of the Year (McHugh in 2002 and Danielle Dormer in 2005), a pair of Commonwealth Rookies of the Year (McHugh in 2000 and Dormer in 2002) and 10 double-digit-win seasons from singles players (McHugh four times, Dormer three times and Cindy Schlier, Sarah Lampe and Brittany Reiman once each). The doubles team of Jessi Haas and Julie Springer was a 10-match winner during the 2007-08 season.

Jordan is a former four-year Crusaders tennis player. He resides in Selinsgrove, Pa.

Sean Monaghan, Assistant Coach

Sean Monaghan returned to Susquehanna University in 2008 as an assistant men’s and women’s tennis coach after serving as the university's head men's coach during the 2001-02 season while he attended Bloomsburg University.

After graduating from Bloomsburg with a bachelor's degree in August 2002, Monaghan was hired at Bucknell University as an assistant men’s and women’s tennis coach. In 2003, he worked at the Doylestown Tennis Club as a staff pro and worked with juniors, adults and tournament-prep students while he taught private lessons and ran United States Tennis Association tournaments. Also during his time at Doylestown, Monaghan trained under the notable Jim Klein. Monaghan was taught the "Vic Braden system" and benefited from Klein's expertise in video-tape analysis and teaching techniques.

Monaghan got his start as a teaching-tennis professional as an assistant pro at the West Branch Tennis Club in South Williamsport, Pa., in 1990. In 1991, he became a certified teaching professional through the Vic Braden Tennis College. Monaghan then moved to Hilton Head Island, S.C., where he continued to teach at and for a variety of clinics and age groups.

In 1994, Monaghan worked for the Harry Hopman Tennis Academy in Wesley Chapel, Fla., where he trained world-class juniors and taught adult programs, private lessons and at clinics and worked with the staff to administer physical fitness training along and mental toughness to students.

While employed at the Hopman Academy, Monaghan observed the training of such tennis greats as Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, Jennifer Capriati, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario and Gabriela Sabatini.

Monaghan is a lifetime member of the USTA and a certified instructor for the United States Professional Tennis Association and United States Professional Tennis Registry.

He and his wife, Jill, reside in Sunbury, Pa.