Rance Brown

Biography

Associate head coach Rance Brown enters his 29th season on the UCLA women’s tennis coaching staff in 2025-26. He served under Bill Zaima in 1996, and has been Stella Sampras Webster’s top assistant for 27 seasons. The 2000 and 2012 ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year, Brown was promoted to the position of associate head coach effective at the beginning of the 2008-09 season. During Brown’s tenure, UCLA has continually been among the top teams in the nation. In addition to NCAA titles in 2008 and 2014, the Bruins have finished runner-up at the NCAA Championships four times (2004, 2007, 2012 and 2015). UCLA has made the NCAA tournament in each of his 27 completed seasons as an assistant. The 2020 team, led by the top-ranked doubles tandem of Elysia Bolton and Jada Hart, went 12-1 and reached the final round of the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in the coronavirus-shortened season. In 2021, the Bruins went 10-0 in regular-season conference play, outscoring opponents by a 53-6 margin en route to the program’s first outright Pac-12 championship. The 2024 squad went 9-1 against conference opponents to claim the final Pac-12 regular-season title in outright fashion. Brown then helped guide UCLA through a successful transition to the Big Ten Conference, as the 2025 group won 11 of its final 13 matches and earned a spot in the NCAA Championships super-regional round. Brown has especially excelled in the area of recruiting, bringing in a number of highly-ranked junior play