University of Southern California Women's Tennis

Alison Swain, who built a women's tennis dynasty at Williams College by leading the Ephs to 8 NCAA Division III team championships, was officially hired to b...

Ben Goldberg, most recently serving as the women's tennis assistant coach at Pepperdine, was named USC's assistant coach on July 1, 2025. Goldberg is no stra...

Petros Alex, who most recently served as an assistant coach at Utah State, was named USC's assistant coach on Dec. 19, 2025. He enters his first season with the Women of Troy. A native of Crete, Greece, Alex comes to Troy after spending the 2024-25 season at Utah State, where he helped the Aggies to a 15-9 record. Alex spent the 2023–24 season as an assistant coach at Oregon, where he helped guide the Ducks to a 15-13 overall record and a sixth-place finish in the Pac-12 - the program's best performance in six years. Prior to his time in Eugene, Alex worked for several years as a private coach for top-ranked junior players and served as assistant director of North Oaks Tennis in Minneapolis, Minn. A former Division I student-athlete, Alex played collegiately at North Dakota. He was a four-time ITA Academic Team selection (2019–23), earned AD Honor Roll honors each season and was named to the President's List in 2021. He also helped lead the program to its best season in school history and served on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for three years. Alex graduated with honors from the University of North Dakota in 2023. Alex began his coaching career as assistant director of tennis at the North Oaks Recreation Center in North Oaks, Minn., where he instructed more than 30 high school varsity athletes and worked as a travel coach. He comes from a tennis family as his mother, Kathy, was a national champion and four-time All-American at UCLA, and all eight of his siblings hav

Whitney Rotrock began at USC as an academic counselor in 2011. She has served SAAS in various capacities since then, including Personal Development, Career Development and Advising. She is currently in a hybrid Personal Development and Advising position, overseeing the Personal Development programming for all 21 sports and coordinating all academic resources for the Men's & Women's Tennis and Lacrosse Programs. In her role as Director of Personal Development Whitney oversees the PD Budget, plans and executes all PD programs and events, develops the curriculum and serves as the lead facilitator of the Freshman Success Seminar, advises for post-graduate educational opportunities and coordinates academic honors and fellowship nominations. She also chairs the Athletic Department Health & Wellness Committee, and sits on the LGBTQA and Athlete Career Transition Committees. Whitney came to USC from San Jose State, where she served three years as the Director of Student Services and nearly two years as the Student Services Coordinator. While at SJSU, Whitney oversaw various aspects of Compliance including Athletic Financial Aid and the National Letter of Intent program. In addition she coordinated all Student-Athlete Affairs programming and served as the advisor for SJSU's Student Athlete Advisory Committee. A native of Oregon City, Ore., Whitney's athletics career began at Oregon State, where she worked in the football academic office as a student assistant for four years, graduatin