Western Carolina University Women's Tennis

Coach Beaver enters his eighth season with the Catamount tennis program, seeing steady improvement in each of his seasons at the helm. Prior to Western Carolina, Beaver was an assistant women's tennis coach at Charleston Southern University from 2013-15 where he was instrumental in the success of the women's tennis program that won the Big South tournament championship during the 2015 season, earning a bid to the NCAA Women's Tennis Championships. The Buccaneers also won two Big South regular-season titles in 2014 and 2015, and Beaver coached the Big South Player of the Year for two consecutive seasons. Before Charleston Southern, Beaver came to Western Carolina from Elon University where he spent three seasons, 2015-2018, as an assistant coach and then associate head coach for the Phoenix women's tennis program. In the 2018 season, Elon reached the semi-finals of the CAA Tournament and placed four on the all-conference team. While at Elon as an assistant coach, the team amassed a record of 46-31 with nine Phoenix earning post-season honors. Beaver has also worked as a tennis professional at the Wild Dunes Tennis Center in Isle of Palms, S.C., as well as a camp counselor for the Tennis Camp at Wake Forest University and a tennis instructor for the Towpath Tennis Center in Akron, Ohio. Beaver received his bachelors in Peace and Justice from Nazareth College.