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Contact Coach Ratchford: Eric Ratchford enters his seventh season as the head men's and women's tennis coach at Lafayette. Ratchford has coached 20 ITA Scholar-Athletes with the women's team being recognized the past six seasons and the men's team the previous five. In 2005-06, Ratchford guided both teams to school records for wins in a single season. The men posted a 17-10 overall record and the women recorded an 18-4 mark. Ratchford, who has served as the head coach of men's and women's programs at four different institutions, has a career record of 230-179. He has over 28 years of tennis teaching experience with 12 seasons as a head coach at the collegiate level. In addition to his coaching duties at Lafayette, he is the director of the Lafayette College Summer Tennis Camp, which he founded in 2004. Prior to his time at Lafayette, Ratchford coached one season at Manhattanville College where he guided the men's program to a 12-2 record and the Skyline Conference championship. Ratchford spent the 1998-2001 seasons as the head men's coach at Robert Morris University where he posted a 51-36 overall record and guided the team to consecutive Northeast Conference final appearances in 2000 and 2001. He received the NEC Coach of the Year Award in 1999. Ratchford started as the head women's coach at RMU in 1999, a position he continued through the 2001 season. He led the Colonials to a third-place conference finish in 2001 and finished with a 25-27 overall record. Ratchford began his college coaching career at Endicott College in 1995, guiding the women's program to a 9-6 record. He assumed the duties of assistant men's and women's coach at Idaho State in 1996. A 1985 graduate of Appalachian State with a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Ratchford earned his master's degree from Idaho State in 1997 in Physical Education and Athletic Administration. |
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