Men's Tennis Coaching Staff

Lonnie Isaac, head coach

Lonnie Isaac, a Hillsboro native, is a 1993 Bethel graduate. He is a three-year letterwinner, skipping his sophomore season. He was the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference second doubles champion in 1992-93 and placed second in the NAIA District 10 tournament with partner Wayne Hodgson. Isaac played with three KCAC regular-season and post-season conference tournament championship teams. His career singles and doubles record at Bethel was 79-47. He was named the Team Leadership Award winner for the 1992-93 season. He was inducted into the Bethel College Booster Club Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004 as a member of the 1989 men’s team, which won the Threshers first of 10 straight KCAC titles.

Isaac coached at Hillsboro High School from 1995 until 2001, sending 23 players to the Class 3-2-1A state tournament. He was the Class 3-2-1A Kansas Coaches Association Boys’ Tennis Coach of the Year in 1999 and 2001. His 2001 team finished sixth in the state. In the spring 2001, he was named men’s and women’s coach at Tabor College, where he turned around the fortunes of that program. In 2003, Tabor won its first KCAC men’s championship. The men qualified for the NAIA Region IV tournament in 2002, 2003 and 2006. The Tabor women had its highest KCAC finish this season, finishing third in the regular season and second in the post-season tournament. The team qualified for the 2006 Region IV tournament. Under Isaac’s tenure at Tabor, he’s coached 12 All-KCAC men and 16 All-KCAC women. He has coached 10 KCAC all-academic men’s selection and 11 KCAC all-academic women. Seven men and nine women were named NAIA Academic All-Americans during his tenure.

He coached the 2005 KCAC women’s freshman of the year and three KCAC women’s scholar-athletes of the year. He began coaching men's and women's tennis at Bethel in fall 2006. Isaac lives in Hesston with his wife, Tracy, and their three children, Tessa, Rhain and new to the family in October, Logan.