Middle Tennesee State University Athletics
Men's Tennis
Borendame, Jimmy
Jimmy Borendame
- Title:
- Head Men's Tennis Coach
- Email:
- jimmy.borendame@mtsu.edu
- Phone:
- 898-2957
Updated 5/13/25
Middle Tennessee’s men’s tennis program is rich in history, and it’s current head coach Jimmy Borendame has now spent 15 years at the helm, making the Blue Raiders a perennial favorite for league titles and competing against the nation’s top talent along the way.
Borendame, a Wheaton, Illinois product, helped his team to Sun Belt Conference championships in 2011 and 2012 and most recently followed up with a 6-peat of the Conference USA Championship in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. He’s an 11-time Coach of the Year as Middle Tennessee’s leader. Borendame has led the Blue Raiders to back-to-back top 25 finishes in 2022 and 2023.
The current Blue Raider head man came to Murfreesboro by way of Drake after serving a one-year stint as the head men’s tennis coach of the Bulldogs in Des Moines, Iowa. He led Drake to a 15-9 record, which included seven wins in an eight-match stretch from late February to mid-March.
Prior to his time in Des Moines, Borendame spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Virginia Tech, including an associate head coaching role for the 2009 season. The Hokies posted a 70-56 (.556) mark, including three NCAA tournament appearances, during his stay in Blacksburg.
When his playing days at Butler were complete, Borendame spent one year each at West Virginia (2003) and William & Mary (2004) as an assistant coach.
He is married to the former Genevieve McNeill, a Gulfport, Mississippi native who was a standout swimmer at the University of Arkansas. They have two children: one daughter, Lynden, and one son, Rocco.
THE BORENDAME FILE
1999-2002: Butler (student-athlete)
2003: West Virginia (assistant coach)
2004: William & Mary (assistant coach)
2005-08: Virginia Tech (assistant coach)
2009: Virginia Tech (associate head coach)
2010: Drake (head coach: 15-9 (.625))
2011-pres.: Middle Tennessee (head coach: 260-145
Record as head coach: 275-154
AWARDS AND HONORS
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND FUNDRAISING
PLAYER ACCOMPLISHMENTS UNDER BORENDAME
IN THE RANKINGS
AT BUTLER (1999-2002)
AT WEST VIRGINIA (2003)
AT WILLIAM & MARY (2004)
AT VIRGINIA TECH (2005-09)
AT DRAKE (2010)
AT MIDDLE TENNESSEE (2011-pres.)
Middle Tennessee’s men’s tennis program is rich in history, and it’s current head coach Jimmy Borendame has now spent 15 years at the helm, making the Blue Raiders a perennial favorite for league titles and competing against the nation’s top talent along the way.
Borendame, a Wheaton, Illinois product, helped his team to Sun Belt Conference championships in 2011 and 2012 and most recently followed up with a 6-peat of the Conference USA Championship in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. He’s an 11-time Coach of the Year as Middle Tennessee’s leader. Borendame has led the Blue Raiders to back-to-back top 25 finishes in 2022 and 2023.
The current Blue Raider head man came to Murfreesboro by way of Drake after serving a one-year stint as the head men’s tennis coach of the Bulldogs in Des Moines, Iowa. He led Drake to a 15-9 record, which included seven wins in an eight-match stretch from late February to mid-March.
Prior to his time in Des Moines, Borendame spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Virginia Tech, including an associate head coaching role for the 2009 season. The Hokies posted a 70-56 (.556) mark, including three NCAA tournament appearances, during his stay in Blacksburg.
When his playing days at Butler were complete, Borendame spent one year each at West Virginia (2003) and William & Mary (2004) as an assistant coach.
He is married to the former Genevieve McNeill, a Gulfport, Mississippi native who was a standout swimmer at the University of Arkansas. They have two children: one daughter, Lynden, and one son, Rocco.
THE BORENDAME FILE
1999-2002: Butler (student-athlete)
2003: West Virginia (assistant coach)
2004: William & Mary (assistant coach)
2005-08: Virginia Tech (assistant coach)
2009: Virginia Tech (associate head coach)
2010: Drake (head coach: 15-9 (.625))
2011-pres.: Middle Tennessee (head coach: 260-145
Record as head coach: 275-154
AWARDS AND HONORS
- 2011, 2012, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 NCAA Tournament appearances as head coach
- 2021 USPTA National Coach of the Year
- 2016, 2021, and 2025 USPTA Southern College Coach of the Year
- 2019 and 2022 ITA Ohio Valley Region Coach of the Year
- 2019, 2020, 2021. 2022, 2024, and 2025 Conference USA Coach of the Year
- 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 Conference USA Championship
- 2017, 2018 and 2019 ITA Ohio Valley Region Community Service Award
- 2016 Etcheberry Experience certification for tennis-specific strength and conditioning
- 2011 and 2012 Sun Belt Coach of the Year
- 2011 and 2012 Sun Belt championship
- 2008 ITA Mideast Region Assistant Coach of the Year
- 2006 and 2007 Mid-Atlantic National Junior teams head coach
- 2002 Team Mental Attitude Award
- 2002 ITA Academic All-American
- 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 All-Horizon League
- USPTA Certified Instructor
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND FUNDRAISING
- Partners with local businesses such as Kellogg’s, Newk’s, and Boulevard Bar to provide free promotions at home matches
- Home match attendance increases yearly, and MT boasted a crowd of 800-plus in 2016 vs. Vanderbilt and 455 in a 2020 win vs. Indiana
- Raised over $8.8 million towards a new on-campus outdoor tennis facility, opened Spring of 2024
- Raised $3.2 million of the $5.8 million Adams Tennis Complex indoor facility
- Raised $100,000 to secure transportation for MT’s men’s and women’s tennis teams and obtained a donation for a new scoreboard for the outdoor courts on campus
- Raised $60,000 in conjunction with the city of Murfreesboro to add PlaySight technology used at the Adams Tennis Complex by both MT’s men’s and women’s tennis teams
- Grows the game of tennis in Murfreesboro by conducting free clinics for Murfreesboro City Schools and the Buddy Up program, hosting USTA Campus Kids Day, and developing the MTSU Ball Kid program
- Renovated MT’s men’s tennis locker room and an entrance to Murphy Center
- Raised over a total of more then 9 million towards MTSU Tennis facilities during his time at MTSU.
- Raised $10,000 for new speaker sound system and updated graphic in the Adams Tennis Complex in 2021
- Was chosen to serve on NCAA Tennis Committee and NCAA Tennis Rules Committee in July 2022
- Elected by his peers to serve on the ITA Operating committee to serve the Men's tennis coaches from the Ohio Valley Region in 2021-2024 term
PLAYER ACCOMPLISHMENTS UNDER BORENDAME
- 6x Conference USA Players of the Year
- 4x Conference USA Freshman of the Year
- 46x All-Conference singles and 49x All-Conference doubles honors
- 56x Conference Players of the Week (Eight Players in the 2025 season)
- 7x Conference USA Outstanding Teams of the Championship
- 5x Conference USA Players of the Month
- 52x ITA Scholar-Athletes
- 9x ITA All-Academic Team
- 103x Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll (3.0-4.0 GPA) and 52x Conference USA Academic Medal (3.75-4.0 GPA)
- 2025 CUSA Scholar Athlete (Karim Al-Amin)
IN THE RANKINGS
- Middle Tennessee ranked as high as No. 15 in the 2022 team national rankings
- Best final team ranking: No. 20 in 2022
- Six singles players (2014, 2021, 2022, 2023 (2x), and 2024.) and seven doubles pairs (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.) in the final national rankings
AT BUTLER (1999-2002)
- Received his bachelor’s degree with honors in finance
- Ranked as high as No. 33 in doubles
- Owned the school record with 98 doubles victories at the time of his graduation
AT WEST VIRGINIA (2003)
- Received his master’s degree in sport management with a concentration in collegiate athletic administration/sport marketing
AT WILLIAM & MARY (2004)
- Helped the Tribe to a No. 38 national ranking and victories over nationally-ranked VCU and Tennessee
AT VIRGINIA TECH (2005-09)
- Tabbed the ITA’s Mideast Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2008
- Assisted in the development of 2009 ACC Freshman of the Year Luka Somen
- Spearheaded recruiting, planned team travel, managed NCAA compliance, assisted with budget management, coordinated fundraising through the Hokies’ booster club and oversaw the strength and conditioning program
AT DRAKE (2010)
- Coached the Bulldogs to a 15-9 record, including one stretch of seven wins in eight matches
- 2010 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year: Mauricio Ballivian
AT MIDDLE TENNESSEE (2011-pres.)
- 2011, 2012, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 NCAA Tournament appearances
- 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 Conference USA Championships
- 2011 and 2012 Sun Belt Championships
- 2025 Conference USA Player of the Year: Karim Al-Amin
- 2025 Conference USA Freshmen of the Year: Kacper Szymkowiak
- 2025 Outstanding Singles Player of the Championship: Ondrej Horak
- 2025 Outstanding Doubles Team of the Championship: Shu Matsuoka and Igor Mandou Berranger
- 2024 Conference USA Player of the Year: Leo Raquin
- 2024 Conference USA Newcomer of the Year: Leo Raquin
- 2024 Conference USA Freshman of the Year: Jakub Kroslak
- 2024 Conference USA Outstanding Doubles Team of the Championship: Jakub Kroslak and Shu Matsuoka
- 2023 Conference USA Player of the Year: Stijn Slump
- 2023 Conference USA Freshman of the Year: Ondrej Horak
- 2023 Conference USA Singles Player of the Championship: Pavel Motl
- 2023 Conference USA Outstanding Doubles Team of the Championship: Ondrej Horak and Marcel Kamrowski
- 2022 Conference USA Player of the Year: Stijn Slump
- 2022 ITA Ohio Valley Most Improved Senior: Chris Edge
- 2021 Conference USA Outstanding Doubles Players of the Championship: Chris Edge and Stepan Holis
- 2021 Conference USA Player of the Year: Francisco Rocha
- 2021 Conference USA Outstanding Singles Player of the Championship: Stijn Slump
- 2021 Conference USA Outstanding Doubles Players of the Championship: Tom Moonen and Chris Edge
- 2020 Conference USA Player of the Year: Chris Edge
- 2020 ITA Ohio Valley Region Rafael Osuna Sportsmanship Award: Tom Moonen
- 2019 Conference USA Freshman of the Year and Co-Outstanding Singles Player of the Championship: Stijn Slump
- 2019 Conference USA Outstanding Doubles Players of the Championship: Gonzalo Morell Raschiatore and Pavel Motl
- 2018 ITA Ohio Valley Region Most Improved Senior of the Year: Gian Issa
- 2011 and 2012 Sun Belt Tournament Most Outstanding Player: Matt Langley
- 2011 and 2012 CoSIDA Academic All-American: Matt Langley
Facility tour – Stephen and Denise Smith Student-Athlete Performance Center
Wednesday, July 30
Men's Tennis NCAA Selection Show Watch Party on 04/28/25
Tuesday, April 29
MTSU Men's Tennis CUSA Championship vs Liberty Recap on 04/20/25
Wednesday, April 23
MTSU Men's Tennis vs Wichita State Recap on 04/13/25
Saturday, April 19
