Danny Bryan Season 2022-23
Danny Bryan, a former All-American and assistant coach at LSU who earned 2021 ITA Central Region Coach of the Year at Wichita State, enters his third year as head coach of the LSU Men’s Tennis team.
Bryan was a two-time team captain and four-year letterman for the Tigers from 2003-2007. He tallied 194 wins in singles and doubles, making him the second highest player in career wins in LSU tennis history. In doubles, he earned 110 wins during his collegiate career which earned him the all-time doubles career wins at LSU. He was an integral part of three Top-15 teams, reaching as high as No. 3 in the doubles rankings and No. 32 in singles. In 2007, Bryan earned ITA Doubles All-American and First Team All-SEC honors, winning the SEC Indoors Double title. A two-time All-SEC performer, he was the recipient of the 2007 ITA National Arthur Ashe Jr. Leadership and Sportsmanship Award.
Following one season as a student-assistant, LSU hired Bryan as an assistant coach in 2008. In eight seasons under head coach Jeff Brown, Bryan coached 10 All-Americans, 14 All-SEC selections, and 14 ITA Scholar Athletes, including 2009 SEC Player of the Year Michael Venus. Four times in Bryan’s eight seasons on staff, LSU finished in the top-30 nationally, and the Tigers reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament six times. In 2013, he was named the Southern Region Assistant Coach of the Year.
In his second season as head coach of the Tigers, Bryan led the team to the 2024 SEC Tournament semifinals hosted in Baton Rouge, La. The last time LSU reached the semifinals was in 2007 where Bryan was a senior member of the team. The Tigers began the season sitting at a No. 19 ranking by the ITA. During the season, the Tigers knocked off four No. 25-ranked teams including No.16 South Carolina, No. 14 Texas A&M, No. 21 Auburn, and No. 4 Kentucky.
Before his return to LSU as head coach, Bryan was head coach at Wichita State where he led the Shockers to 82 victories in six seasons, reaching in the NCAA Tournament in 2021 on the strength of a 15-9 record, five wins over ranked foes, and a ranking that reached as high as No. 29 during the season. The Shockers’ home victory over No. 22 Memphis in March of 2021 was the program’s first against a top-25 opponent in more than 35 seasons. Under Bryan, Murkel Dellien became the first player in Wichita State history to earn AAC Player of the Year honors in 2021, teaming with fellow All-American Marius Frosa to earn All-American honors. Dellien has achieved a career high rank of 168 in singles and 174 in doubles. Dellien and Frosa reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Doubles Tournament in 2019 and earned the program’s first All-American honors since 1983.
Bryan is the only active collegiate coach with two former players ranked inside the top 20 in the world in doubles: Neal Skupski, who has a career high rank at No.1 and Michael Venus who has earned a career high rank at No. 6.
A 2008 graduate of LSU, Bryan married former LSU gymnast Jade Jenkins on Jan. 2, 2010, and the couple have two children, Parker and Brooklyn.