Columbia University Women's Tennis

In her time as head coach at Columbia, Ilene Weintraub ’02CC has revitalized the women’s tennis program in every aspect, building the Lions into a consistently nationally-ranked program and Ivy League contender. The winningest coach in program history, Weintraub led Columbia to their first Ivy League title in 2013 and two NCAA Tournament appearances in 2014 and 2016. Under her leadership, the Lions earned their first national ranking in 2012 and continual year-end national rankings in recent seasons including a High ITA National Ranking of No. 21 in 2020. Weintraub was twice named ITA Northeast Coach of the Year. Columbia has also won the ECAC Championship five times under Weintraub’s direction in 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2024. The 2024 season saw the Lions contend for an Ivy League title as Columbia finished second in the final standings. Columbia started the season with a 10-2 record that vaulted the Lions into the ITA Top 25 for just the second time in program history. As part of the path to a No. 25 ranking, Columbia defeated Kentucky for its first win in program history against a team from the SEC. The Lions then defeated Dartmouth, Brown and Yale to claim the program’s fifth ECAC Championship during Weintraub’s tenure. Columbia went on to defeat Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth, Yale and Brown during Ivy League action as the Lions finished second in the league and fell just short of an NCAA Tournament bid. Columbia finished the season at No. 45 in the ITA rankings. Weintraub’

Aliza Feuerstein began as an assistant athletic trainer at Columbia University in fall 2017. She works primarily with the Lions’ men's basketball along with ...

Lucas Gueymard Wayneburg joined the Columbia women's tennis program as an assistant coach in September of 2025. Prior to joining Columbia, Gueymard Wayneburg...

Marco Kroes joined the Columbia women's tennis program as an assistant coach in September of 2025. Kroes joins the women’s staff after helping guide the Colu...

Tommy Sheehan enters his 20th year as Columbia University's Director of Strength and Conditioning. Sheehan, who is in his second stint at Columbia, was named Director of Strength and Conditioning in 2001. In this capacity, Sheehan supervises staff in all aspects of strength and conditioning for Columbia's 31 intercollegiate teams. He has been instrumental in the six recent Ivy League championships in men's tennis and has tutored Ivy League Players of the Year in Tennis, Men's and Women's Basketball and Swimming and Diving, along with several national qualifiers in Wrestling. Sheehan first came to Columbia in fall 1990 as a graduate assistant on the football coaching staff, reuniting him with Ray Tellier, Columbia's head coach at the time. Tellier had originally recruited the Buffalo, N.Y., native when he was the head coach at the University of Rochester. Sheehan spent three years on the Columbia staff and earned a master's degree in applied physiology. After a short stint as a New York State Trooper, where he earned top gun honors for physical fitness in the academy, Sheehan returned to Columbia as an assistant strength and conditioning coach. Nationally known throughout the strength and conditioning profession, he was asked to produce an instructional DVD for the Cleveland Indians, on movement training in an off-season conditioning program. It was filmed at the Indians' Jacobs Field and distributed to the players in the Cleveland system. Sheehan is one of the finest offensiv