Concordia Texas tennis head coach Jeff Bramlett was appointed the position on April 18, 2022. Bramlett arrived to Concordia Texas after a successful seven-year stint at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Texas where he was the head coach of the men's and women's tennis teams.
He arrived to ETBU in 2014 where the program saw steady improvement over his tenure, including a women's American Southwest Conference Championship and an NCAA Tournament First Round victory in 2017. His teams finished top two in the ASC East Division four times, including two East Division championships, and he coached a player to a regional ITA championship and two national ITA semifinal appearances. For his work, Bramlett earned three ASC Women's East Division Coach of the Year awards.
After arriving in Austin in April of 2022, Bramlett led the men's and women's tennis teams to historic seasons where the men won a program-record 17 matches while the women also earned a school-best 13 wins. The men's team then notched the number 39 ranking in the nation, while securing their second ASC Men's Tennis Championship overall and second in the past three seasons. The women's team tallied a program-best regional ranking of 16th, and Bramlett coached Joshua Bode to Concordia's first ever singles appearance at the NCAA Championships.
Off the court, Bramlett raised the final funding needed for the construction of Veteran's Memorial Tennis Complex in 2014.
Growing up with a tennis tradition, the Bramlett family was elected the Texas Tennis Family of the Year in 1981. Bramlett went on to play collegiate tennis at Texas Tech and Texas State University (formerly Southwest Texas State). He helped Texas State to the 1982 NAIA Team National Championship while also winning the NAIA double national championship. He started his career at Texas Tech playing there two years as the #1 singles and #1 doubles player before transferring to Texas State.
After his collegiate play he become a certified USPTA professional in 1983 and had a world ranking in doubles by 1984. In 1988, he was ranked as the top player in Texas in the men’s 25 and over singles and doubles. In 1993 he finished as ranked #2 in the Texas men’s open division. He held the #1 ranking in 1990 in the men's 30 and over doubles and reached the #1 ranking, again, in 1995 for the Texas men’s 35 and over doubles. In 2001, he continued his tennis dominance staying ranked as the top player in the Texas men’s 40 and over doubles.
He has been married for 30-plus years to his wife, Lori, and they have a son, James (graduate of Univ. of Texas), and a daughter, Kate (who is in PT school grad at the University of North Texas in Fort Worth). Kate also earned several collegiate academic and athletic awards under her father at ETBU in three years. He has earned a bachelor of science in Education and a Master of business administration from Texas State University.
