Kim Strable leads The Pride women's tennis team in 2005. He previously coached the GC men's team from 1994 to 2001 and compiled a 58-62 record. Strable was chosen Conference Coach-of-the-Year in 1997. Strable, who also serves as Greensboro College's athletics director, led GC to one of its best seasons ever in 2000. Greensboro achieved an overall record of 13-4, and a second place finish in the Dixie Conference. The team was ranked #9 by the ITA in the South Region of NCAA Division III. A member of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Strable is a certified instructor with the United States Professional Tennis Registry. Originally from Celina, Ohio, Strable earned a B.A. degree with a double major in speech communication and physical education from Albion College (Mich.) in 1975. While attending Albion, Strable earned varsity letters in football and baseball. In 1981, he finished an M.A. degree in Physical Education at Western Michigan University. While completing his graduate studies at WMU, he worked as an administrator, teacher and coach at a juvenile detention and treatment center in Marshall (Mich.). Strable was an administrator at Albion and Guilford colleges before joining the Greensboro athletic staff in 1989 when he became Greensboro's first full-time athletic director. He has overseen the growth of GC's athletic department from 8 teams to 16 teams over a 10 period. He also served a two-year stint as President of the Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Active in a number of local sporting organizations, Strable serves on the board of directors for the Greensboro Sports Commission and the marketing committee of the Greensboro Youth Soccer Association. Strable is also a member of the Greensboro Sports Council and recently completed a four-year stint as the South region's representative on the NCAA Men's Soccer Committee. He and his wife, Cindy, have three children and one granddaughter and reside in Greensboro.
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