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Missouri State introduced Mallory Weber as its women’s tennis head coach on Feb. 28, 2014, and she begins her seventh season leading the Bears during the 2020-21 school year.
The shortened 2019-20 season served several memorable moments including a pair of MVC Individual Championship titles and an impressive fall run at the ITA Regional Championships. MSU tallied a 4-7 spring record before play was halted, bookended with non-conference wins against North Dakota and Kansas City. Ellie Burger led the MSU squad with an 12-2 singles record, going a perfect 6-0 in the No. 3 spot and taking home the MVC Individual Champion crown in the third flight. Doubles proved to be another strong suit for the Bears, as Ellie Burger and Alye Darter advanced to the round of 16 at the ITA Regional Championships and Anna Alons and Alyson Piskulic picked up a title at the fall MVC Individual Championships. Despite the shortened campaign, Darter, Burger, and Claire Martin were all selected to MVC Scholar-Athlete teams.
Missouri State posted a 10-plus win campaign for the second year in a row during the 2018-19 season, finishing with an even 11-11 record that saw the Bears advance to the MVC Semifinal round. Fati Khamissi propelled MSU to a 4-3 win over Drake in the MVC Quarterfinal round with a second-set tiebreaker before the Bears fell in the semifinals to top-seeded Stony Brook. The Bears began the season in winning fashion, stringing together a 4-0 mark spanning Jan. 27 - Feb. 16. Anna Alons and Ellie Burger received MVC Doubles Team of the Week honors three times over the course of the spring. Fall showed promise as Clara Gandara Gonzalez and Khamissi dominated their singles brackets to earn MVC Individual Champion titles.
In her fourth season at the helm of the tennis program, Weber led the Bears to their first Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Championship title since 2002. The Bears headed into the final match of the season against Drake with a share of first-place and the top seed in the tournament on the line. The program drew a match-up with Ole Miss in the Oxford Regional of the 2018 NCAA Women’s Tennis Championship. All-MVC Singles honoree, junior Fati Khamissi led the Bears with a 16-4 spring dual record, including a perfect 5-0 record against Valley teams. Khamissi also collected MVC Scholar-Athlete and All-MVC Doubles honors with sophomore Alexia Meyer. Four different Bears collected weekly MVC Singles and Doubles honors, including sweeping both awards to wrap up the season on April 24.
The Bears were led by underclassmen in Weber’s third year, with freshman Alye Darter earning a team-high 15 singles wins and posting a 9-8 record at the No. 1 spot. In fact, 45 of MSU’s singles victories came from freshmen and sophomores, while only 11 came from the senior class. Abbey Belote and Fati Khamissi earned MVC Scholar-Athlete honors, and each member of the team made the Athletic Director’s honor roll with a combined 3.63 GPA in the spring 2017 semester. Additionally, Weber's Bears earned ITA All-Academic Team status for this third consecutive season, with six individuals earning ITA Scholar-Athlete honors. The Bears also continued a dominant run at their home court, going 9-1 over a 10-match stretch from March 4, 2016-Feb. 17, 2017.
The 2015-16 season featured plenty of highlights, including an eight-match winning streak from March 4-April 10 and improved MSU to 10-10 at the time. The streak was the longest for the program since the 2001-02 season, a year in which the Bears reached the NCAA Tournament. MSU also earned its first academic and all-conference performers under Weber’s guidance, with senior Miranda Poile becoming the Bears’ first MVC Scholar-Athlete Team pick and senior Ema Turudija the first All-MVC First Team selection since the program was discontinued in 2006.
The Bears' 11 victories almost tripled their win total from a year prior. MSU made significant strides in both singles and doubles play, with MSU’s dual singles winning percentage improving from .308 to .403 behind 23 more victories. The Bears’ doubles teams’ winning percentages also increased, improving from .151 to .349 with 14 more wins in dual action. While only Anelisse Torrico Moreno had double-digit victories in the 2014-15 season, she was joined in that category by four others during the 2015-16 season.
In their first season of competition in almost 10 years, the Bears picked up four dual victories in the spring of 2015. In its third match of the season, Missouri State defeated IUPUI, 6-1, in Columbia for their first win since 2006. Weber's group won its first home match at Cooper Tennis Complex on Feb. 21, 4-3, over South Dakota State and its first Missouri Valley Conference dual over Illinois State on April 12.
Leading the Bears in their first season of play was spring arrival freshman Anelisse Torrico Moreno, who under Weber's direction finished with a team-best 11-9 record, which included an eight-match win streak.
Weber previously served as an assistant women's tennis coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio starting in August 2013. While at UTSA, Weber assisted head coach Erin Scott in a variety of areas including running practices, instruction, communicating with recruits, and organizing team logistics.
Weber also gathered experience as an assistant tennis coach at Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Mo., where she assisted legendary coach Ben Loeb's boys and girls tennis teams since 2011. She helped develop drills for practices and instructed players on strategies for matches. She also worked as a Nike Tennis Camp instructor during the summer of 2011 at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.
Weber was a decorated tennis player at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 2007-2011, where she was nominated for the school's Female Athlete of the Year award as a senior and earned Academic All-Big 12 first team laurels three times from 2009-2011. She earned placement on the school's Commissioner's Honor Roll every semester during her playing career.
As a player for the Tigers, Weber compiled a career singles record of 58-57 and a doubles ledger of 54-43. She achieved a career-high doubles ranking of 43 from the International Tennis Coaches Association. Her fall 2009 campaign at Missouri was marked by receiving a No. 16 seed in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Central Regionals in Norman, Oklahoma, and advancing to the round of 16 before falling to the No. 2 seed.
The native of Belleville, Illinois, earned her bachelor's degree in secondary education from Missouri in 2011. Her degree included an emphasis and certification in English and language arts. Weber completed a master's degree in sport management at Missouri State in 2015.
