North Carolina State University Athletics
Women's Tennis Names Susanne Depka Assistant Coach
9/28/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Sept. 28, 2010
RALEIGH, N.C. -
Susanne Depka joins the Wolfpack coaching staff after spending seven years co-directing a high performance junior tennis program in North Carolina. During her time with the program, she helped develop over 15 nationally ranked players who went on to play Division I college tennis on scholarship.
Before coming to North Carolina, Depka was an assistant coach at Northwestern from 1998 through 2000. In her first year on staff, Northwestern captured the Big Ten regular season title, made the Big Ten tournament championship match, and reached the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. The following year, Northwestern repeated as regular season champions and received a top 20 national ranking.
Depka played professionally prior to her experience at Northwestern, achieving a top 500 world ranking in WTA singles and doubles. In addition to her touring career, Depka represented the United States in the 1995 Pan American games in Argentina, winning one silver and two bronze medals, and reached the quarterfinals in both singles and doubles at the 1997 World Maccabi games in Israel.
Depka attended the University of Illinois from 1993 to 1997, receiving the team's most improved player award as a freshman and most valuable player as a senior. Depka succeeded academically, as well, earning the George Huff Award for achieving a 4.0 grade point average.
"I'm extremely excited to be working with Coach Olsen at North Carolina State," said Depka. "I'm eager to help lead this team to an ACC championship and a spot in the NCAA tournament. College tennis has been such an unbelievable experience, for me, and I look forward to contributing to the success of our women's program."
"We're excited to have Susanne Depka join our coaching staff," said North Carolina State head coach Hans Olsen. "She brings a great level of experience and knowledge to our program."
"Susanne has been an important part of successful college programs in the past, first as a player at Illinois and then as a coach at Northwestern," said Olsen. "I'm confident Susanne will take on an important role on our staff as this program moves forward."
