Taylor Fogleman Season 2022-23
Taylor Fogleman, who helped lead the University of Texas to national championships each of the past two seasons, enters his first year as LSU’s head women’s tennis coach in 2022-23.
Fogleman, the 2021 ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year and a Louisiana native, returns to his home state after spending the last five seasons in Austin, including the last four as associate head coach.
At Texas, Fogleman proved to be one of the brightest talents in collegiate tennis coaching, recruiting a top-ranked class and helping transform the Longhorns into a national powerhouse. In 2020, he recruited the No. 1 class in the country, including 2022 Singles National Champion and ITA Player of the Year Peyton Stearns. Stearns, the top-ranked player in the 2020 class according to the Universal Tennis Ratings, was one of four top-10 talents Fogleman signed that season, including Charlotte Chavitipon (No. 3 UTR), Kylie Collins (No. 6), and Malaika Rapolu (No. 8). Under Fogleman’s tutelage, Stearns finished the 2022 season 33-2.
During Fogleman’s time in Austin, the Longhorns won four-straight Big 12 titles, in addition to the 2021 and 2022 national championships. In 2021, he helped guide Collins and Lulu Sun to the Doubles National Championship match, the program’s first appearance in the doubles final since 1996. Fogleman was also instrumental in the success of Bianca Turati, who reached No. 1 in the ITA Rankings in 2018 and earned Big 12 Player of the Year that same season. Anna Turati, Bianca’s sister, would reach No. 2 in the ITA ratings in 2019. Together, the Turati sisters earned six First Team All-Big 12 selections, one Big 12 Freshman of the Year award, two All-American honors, and five invitations to the NCAA Individual Tournament.
Prior to his time at Texas, Fogleman served as assistant women’s tennis coach at Rice (2014-2017) and Tulane (2011-2014). At Rice, Fogleman was a part of three straight Conference USA Championships, the most consecutive titles in league history. In 2015, he earned Texas Region Assistant Coach of the Year honors and was a finalist for National Assistant Coach of the Year. In 2017, he recruited the No. 1 recruit in the country, and in 2016, he landed the nation’s top-ranked transfer. At Tulane, where Fogleman earned his MBA in 2014 from the Freeman School of Business, Fogleman coached 10 all-conference players, including 2014 C-USA Player of the Year Klara Vyskocliva.
A 2005 graduate of Jesuit High School in New Orleans, Fogleman became a two-time first-team All-American at the University of North Carolina, where his ranking reached as high as No. 3 nationally in doubles and No. 30 in singles. A team captain in 2008-09, Fogleman reached the NCAA doubles quarterfinals in 2008 and the semifinals in 2009. He earned his degree in communications from UNC in 2009. He and his wife, Lindsay, have two children, Ben and Mae.