Chris Powers

Biography

Coastal Carolina University men's tennis head coach Chris Powers completed his 24th overall season at CCU and his 21st as the head coach of the Chanticleers in 2024-25. Powers is the winningest coach in program history and has been named the conference Coach of the Year three times — twice in the Big South Conference (2013 and 2016) and once in the Sun Belt Conference (2019). Over his time at Coastal Carolina, Powers has coached five nationally ranked singles players and seven nationally ranked doubles teams. He has also led the Chants to the NCAA tournament three times (2013, 2014, and 2016) and helped coach the Coastal Carolina women's program to its historic 2001 NCAA tournament berth. Powers also served as an assistant coach for two additional NCAA tournament teams at Virginia Tech in 1999 and 2000. Powers served five years as a member of the ITA Carolina Regional Coaches Committee and was voted the 2015 Coastal Carolina Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Faculty Member of the Year. At CCU, Powers has mentored 20 all-conference performers in singles play and had 20 Chanticleers pick up all-conference honors in doubles play. Before becoming head coach in 2004, Powers served as assistant coach for both men's and women's programs at Coastal Carolina for four years. He previously spent two seasons at Virginia Tech as assistant women's tennis coach, helping the Hokies to back-to-back Atlantic-10 Championships. Powers also served as a graduate assistant coach at the University