University of Georgia Athletics
Men's Tennis
- Title:
- Men's Tennis Head Coach
- Email:
- jhunt@sports.uga.edu
Jamie Hunt Email: jhunt@sports.uga.edu
Jamie Hunt, who was part of Georgia’s 2007 and 2008 NCAA National Championship teams as a player, and served seven years on the Georgia men’s tennis staff as an associate head coach, was tabbed to lead the Bulldogs’ men’s tennis program on Feb. 27, 2024.
Since returning to Athens in 2017, Hunt has twice been named the ITA Southeast Region Coach of the Year and helped the Bulldogs capture the 2023 SEC Championship with a perfect league record. He also played a crucial role in the development of NCAA singles national champion Ethan Quinn -- just the third player in program history to earn that title.
Since becoming head coach of the Bulldog tennis program, four Bulldogs earned All-American status and six have been tabbed with SEC Honors.
The Bulldogs took an exponential leap in 2026, Hunt’s second year at the helm. Georgia was consistently ranked within the top 15 for 10 consecutive weeks, tallied two top-10 wins, hosted the first and second rounds of NCAA Regionals and advanced to its first Super Regional since 2023. He coached the Bulldogs to their first 20 win season in three years. Under his leadership, Will Jansen was named SEC Newcomer of the Year and earned ITA All-America honors in singles competition. He added two more All-America nods in doubles pairing Arda Azkara and Santiago Giamichelle. The pairing finished the season ranked in the Top 5 of the ITA rankings. Three of his Bulldogs received All-SEC Honors: Jansen, Azkara, and freshman Noah Johnston. Johnston received ITA Southeast Regional Rookie of the Year honors after leading the team in wins. Azkara found much success on the ATP tour during his time in Athens rising nearly 500 spots in the rankings while at UGA to finish ranked inside the ATP Top 600.
In 2024-25 Ryan Colby and Thomas Paulsell received first team All-SEC honors while Miguel Perez Pena was named to the second team. Thomas Paulsell earned All-American honors by reaching the Sweet 16 at the NCAA Championships. The Bulldogs made their 41st consecutive NCAA Men’s Tennis Tournament, extending one of the longest NCAA tournament streaks in the country.
Hunt played for Coach Diaz from 2007-2010 and helped lead Georgia to a pair of national championships. Following his playing career, Hunt made his way to Nashville to become an assistant coach at Vanderbilt. The Commodores had an impressive year in 2013, finishing with a No. 15 ITA national ranking following an appearance in the NCAA Round of 16, marking Vanderbilt’s highest ranking in over a decade.
Following the previous year’s success, Hunt then helped the Commodores to a No. 20 national ranking in 2014 as the team hosted NCAA regionals for the second year in a row. In 2015, Hunt helped develop Gonzales Austin into Vanderbilt’s second ever SEC Player of the Year, helping the program earn its best SEC record in nearly a decade with an 8-4 mark against league opponents.
Under his seven years of leadership in Nashville, four Vanderbilt players were named ITA All-Americans, while two doubles teams reached No. 1 rankings in ITA Doubles.
A U.S. Open Junior Doubles Champion, an All-SEC and All-America performer and winner of the prestigious Southeast Region ITA/Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship, Hunt was a star tennis player and leader for the Bulldogs’ tennis program from 2007 through 2010. His 116 singles wins rank 12th all-time in school history for the four-time All-SEC selection, while his combined singles and doubles record of 238-80 ranks third in the Georgia record book.
In 2008, Hunt compiled a 39-8 singles record, which included a perfect 10-0 mark against conference opponents. The next season, he teamed with Nate Schnugg to reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA doubles championship and earned All-America status.
Hunt was he only junior player in history to win the Easter Bowl Doubles in the boys 14’s, 16’s and 18’s. He also earned ITF World Junior rankings as high as No. 2 in doubles and No. 26 in singles.
Hunt and his wife Kyndal Edwards Hunt met as seniors at the University of Georgia. The couple has five children: Daughter Blakely, son Hayes twins -- daughter Macy and son Hudson -- and son Ford.
