Luis Valero - Women's Tennis Coach - Florida Atlantic University Athletics

Luis Valero

Title:
Graduate Assistant
Email:
valerol2021@fau.edu

Luis Valero, a former All-America tennis player at the University of Tennessee, joined the Florida Atlantic University men's tennis staff as a volunteer assistant coach in July of 2021. In January of 2022, Valero assumed a more envolved role as a graduate assistant for both the men's and the women's teams.

The native of Cali, Columbia, was ranked No. 1 in his home country at the U14, U16 and U18 levels, while also competing on the national team and in the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympics. His highest ITF world junior ranking was No. 71, and he won nine ITF junior titles (four singles, five doubles).

He would go on to star with the Volunteers, earning All-America honors in doubles his senior year. During his four-year career, he was ranked as high as No. 5 in doubles, and No. 42 in singles, and totaled 62 singles and 74 doubles victories. He was elected team captain and was a member of the SEC All-Tournament Team his senior season, and was an All-SEC member two years prior (being UT's No. 1 singles player and as part of their No. 1 doubles team in 2016).

Off the courts, Valero was a member of UT's SAAC committee, was twice named as an ITA Scholar Athlete, and each of his three final years, was a member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll. He earned his bachelor of science degree in business administration, graduating cum laude from UT in May of 2018.