ADAM STEINBERG - CAMP DIRECTOR

Now in his tenth year as head coach at Pepperdine in 2011-12, Steinberg has established himself as part of an elite group of coaches. His 2006 Waves won the national championship and in six years he has an overall record of 139-40 (.777) along with six West Coast Conference championships and six NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2006, he was named the National Coach of the Year by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, and he is a three-time WCC Coach of the Year.
His players at Pepperdine have been named All-Americans 10 times and have been All-WCC first team selections 16 times in singles and 10 times in doubles. A Pepperdine student-athlete has been named WCC Player of the Year in each of his six seasons. In 16 years as a head coach, which includes previous stops at St. John’s and Alabama, his overall record is 269-119 (.693).
Because of Pepperdine’s success, Steinberg was named the ITA National Coach of the Year after earning the ITA West Region Coach of the Year just weeks earlier. Steinberg also was named the WCC Coach of the Year for the second straight season. In 2005, Steinberg led the Waves to the quarterfinals in College Station, Texas, and ended the season with a #8 final ranking.
Steinberg came to Pepperdine from Alabama, where he was the head coach from 1998-2002 and posted a record of 69-57 (.548). Steinberg took the Crimson Tide to their first-ever NCAA appearance in his first season. The 1999 squad advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, and he guided Francisco Rodriguez to All-American status and a #5 national ranking, the school’s highest-ranked player ever. In his final season, 2002, Alabama posted a 15-8 record and tied for second place in the SEC West Division. The Tide notched wins over #8 Kentucky and #12 Auburn before earning a #18 ranking in the year’s final national poll.
A native New Yorker, Steinberg played his college tennis at Penn State, where he served as team captain his senior year. He stayed on at Penn State for the 1988-89 season in order to serve as a student assistant for the Nittany Lions while completing his bachelor’s degree in marketing.