For her decades-long devotion to women's college tennis, Jan Brogan – the former longtime head coach at California – was inducted into the ITA Women's Hall of Fame last Saturday.
 
With several Golden Bear alumnae in attendance, Brogan was lauded at the Mason A. Raymond School of Business on the campus of William & Mary, where the ITA Women's Hall of Fame is located.
 
"It was really a wonderful evening," said Brogan, who coached the Bears for 29 years. "The ceremony was beautiful. I was very happy with it, and the event overall was fantastic and a little overwhelming. It caps off my career as the head coach at Cal."
 
Christina Fusano Hinds – an NCAA doubles champion under Brogan – introduced her former coach at the ceremony.
 
"It's a well-deserved honor for Jan," said Amanda Augustus, who succeeded Brogan as Cal's head coach. "It's a very special event and was a very nice ceremony. When you tour the Women's Hall of Fame and see all the other legends of our sport, and you consider Jan, everything she did to build the Cal women's tennis program over 29 years and all the success she had, it's a very fitting honor. The whole weekend was very special.
 
Brogan coached at Cal from 1978 to 2007, and she retired with a record of 539-223 (.707 winning percentage), which at the time placed her fourth on the NCAA's all-time wins list. She led the Bears to 26 consecutive NCAA Championship appearances and 19 top-10 finishes from 1982. Just days before her retirement in June 2007, Brogan led Cal to the NCAA semifinals after the Bears upset second-seeded Georgia, 4-1, in the quarterfinals.
 
Four doubles teams captured NCAA titles under Brogan's watch, including Augustus and Amy Jensen in 1988 and 1999, Jensen and Claire Curran in 2000, and Fusano Hinds and Raquel (Kops-Jones) Atawo in 2003, while Susie Babos won the NCAA singles championship in 2006.
 
A six-time NorPac Conference Coach of the Year, three-time Pac-10 Coach of the Year and four-time ITA Northwest Regional Coach of the Year, Brogan was named the Wilson ITA National Coach of the Year in 1990. A member of the Cal Athletic Hall of Fame (inducted in 2011) and the USTA NorCal Hall of Fame (inducted in 2007), Brogan is one of four former Bears in the ITA Women's Hall of Fame. The other three are Helen Wills Roark, Helen Hull Jacobs and Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, who each attended UC Berkeley before the inception of its women's tennis program.
 
"It was really special to share the evening with her and the other alums and celebrate all the accomplishments Jan brought not only to Cal but to the ITA and women's tennis in general," Augustus said. "She was really a trailblazer as a coach. I was proud to be one of her players and have been proud as the coach to carry on the legacy of the program and build upon it."
 
The hall of fame includes photos and other memorabilia recounting various NCAA champions, including Augustus and Jensen, who in 2016 were named the Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Century. The two were among 61 All-Americans coached by Brogan, who also produced 19 first-team All-Pac-10 players and five conference players of the year. Her Bears were named to the Pac-10 All-Academic squad 27 times and were voted academic All-American on four occasions with Brogan at the helm.
 
Brogan was a member of the NCAA Women's Tennis Committee for seven years and also served as co-chair of the ITA Sports Science Committee with former Cal assistant coach Kathy Toon. A successful teaching professional in Los Gatos before taking Cal's head coaching job, Brogan has also been a member of the ITA Board of Directors, ITA Operating Committee and NCAA Championship Tennis Committee. She received her first U.S. National team assignment in 1985, and in 1995, she was the U.S. women's head coach at the World University Games.
 
Brogan is a Bay Area native who graduated from San Jose State with a degree in physical education in 1978. In 1998, she completed a master's degree in sports psychology at John F. Kennedy University. She taught an applied sports psychology and life skills class for student-athletes at Cal.
 
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