University of California Athletics

ACHIEVEMENTS
2025-26:

• Brought in a top class of Transfers/Freshman: Andrea Meduri 13.1utr, Tiago Silva 13utr, Lenn Luemkemann 12.9utr, Paris Pouatcha 12.85utr, Leonardo Cattaneo 12.75utr, Winston Lee 12.6utr

• Lechno-Wasiutynski Singles Regionals finalist, Silva/Stepanov Doubles Regionals winners

• Individual Rankings: Stepanov/Silva #7, Silva #104

• NCAA individuals qualifiers 2025: 2 Singles: Silva and Lechno-Wasiutynski - Doubles: Silva/Stepanov

2024-25:

• Highest Team Ranking: #9 (highest since 2017) - Finished #12

• 2025 Spring Dual Record: 19-5 overall  - 10-3 regular season conference in ACC

• #11 seed at NCAA tournament 2025 - Hosted first two rounds, made 2nd round

• Individual Rankings (5 ranked players at the end of the fall - more than every team in the country): Overbeck #4, Dean #32, Chang #49, Chen #83, Stepanov #104 - Doubles: Chang/Wright #13, Overbeck/Dean #20, Dean/Chen #86

• Most players qualified at NCAA individuals 2024: 4 singles (Overbeck #4 seed, Dean, Stepanov, Chang), 2 doubles (Overbeck/Dean, Chang/Wright)

• Carl Emil Overbeck in 2024/2025: All-American, Battle in the Bay won all 3 events: singles, doubles, singles shootout, Regionals singles champion and doubles finalist, developed from 13 to 13.89utr, from unranked to #4 in the country, ATP accelerator program qualifier

• Best Wins in 2025: #6 UVA (on the road) for the first time in program history, USC and UCLA on the road on the same year for the first time in program history, top 20 Duke and FSU

• Brought in: Fryderyk Lechno-Wasiutynski 12.8utr

2023-24:

• Final Team Ranking: #62

• 2024 Spring Dual Record: 10-10 overall 

• Individual Rankings: Overbeck #114, Jackson #120 - Doubles: Chang/Wright #7

2022-23:

• Final Team Ranking: #27

• 2024 Spring Dual Record: 13-11 overall 

• Individual Rankings: Kikuchi #29 - Doubles: Jackson/Magnaudet #63, Kikuchi/Overbeck #77

Prior to Cal:

• 2005 NCAA team champion at UCLA. Won the clinching match

• 2014 NCAA champion at USC as assistant coach

• 2010 and 2014 Southwest region assistant coach of the year

• 2020 ITA Indoor national champion as an associate head coach at USC

• 2014 & 2015 PAC 12 regular season champion at USC as assistant coach

• 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 PAC 12 tournament champion at USC as assistant coach

Pros Coached:

• Marcos Giron #37 ATP

• Yannick Hanfmann #45 ATP

• Gomez #90 ATP

• Brandon Holt #99 ATP

• 15+ in top 500 ATP

BIOGRAPHY
Kris Kwinta joined the Cal Athletics family in the fall of 2021, when he was named the Peter Wright Director of Men's Tennis as the head coach of the California men’s tennis program.
 
Kwinta earned All-American honors as a player at UCLA before embarking on his coaching career, first at his alma mater, and then for the last nine seasons at USC where he served as associate head coach since 2014.

Kwinta presides over a storied Cal program that has made 37 appearances in the NCAA Tournament, produced 36 All-Americans, captured nine NCAA doubles championships and won two NCAA singles titles. The Bears also won the national collegiate title in 1925 as well as ITA National Indoor Championships in 1980 and 1989.
  
The 2014 ITA Southwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year, Kwinta served as the associate head coach of the Trojans from 2014-15 until departing for Berkeley. In the 2020-21 season, Kwinta helped USC compile a 23-7 dual-match record and reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament.

Kwinta began his USC tenure in 2012-13 under former head coach Peter Smith, served as the interim head coach of the program when Smith retired in July 2019, and remained on staff when Masi was hired as head coach in August 2019.
 
Previously, Kwinta served as an assistant for four seasons at UCLA under his college coach, Billy Martin. Kwinta was a graduate assistant for the Bruins in 2008 and was named the 2010 ITA Assistant Coach of the Year for the Southwest Region.
 
After one season at Tennessee, Kwinta transferred to UCLA where he played two seasons, most notably winning the clinching match in the Bruins' 4-3 upset of Baylor to claim the 2005 NCAA team championship. He would go on to earn NCAA all-tournament honors for his efforts in that championship run. In his 2004 and 2005 seasons at UCLA, Kwinta posted a career singles record of 59-22 and a career doubles mark of 62-24. He earned ITA All-America honors in doubles in 2004 after he and partner Alberto Francis finished the year ranked No. 7 in the country. The duo went 33-15 that season, earning Pac-10 Doubles Team of the Year honors.
 
Kwinta also finished the season ranked No. 94 in singles in the final ITA Rankings. In 2005, he posted a 26-9 overall singles record, including a 29-9 mark in doubles play. He earned 2004 All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention, finishing the season ranked No. 65 in singles and No. 20 in doubles with Francis in the final ITA Rankings.
 
A former member of the Polish National Team, Kwinta was ranked as high as No. 2 in singles and No. 1 in doubles in the Polish Junior Rankings. He has represented Poland at the Davis Cup in doubles, teaming with former Bruin Marcin Matkowski. Kwinta is a native of Poznan, Poland, and began playing tennis at the age of 13. He received his bachelor's degree in political science from UCLA in 2008.