State High Tennis Coach Wins High School Coach of the Year Honor

The U.S. Professional Tennis Association recently named State College Area tennis coach Jane Borden as High School Coach of the Year for the organization’s Middle States section, which includes Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

Borden coaches the State High boys and girls tennis teams and is director of tennis at Centre Hills Country Club. In her 24 years of coaching at the school, she has led her teams to nearly 350 wins, including 53 in the past four seasons. She has an 84-11 record over the past six seasons.

“I’m so proud to represent all the State High tennis student-athletes, the athletic program and SCASD with such a great honor,” Borden said in a release. “I’m humbled because I know there are so many great high school tennis coaches in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, and I know I couldn’t do what I do without the support of so many people, including my assistant coach, Jackie Gibbins, and all the student-athletes and parents that I have had the pleasure to work with.”

Borden was named the U.S. Tennis Association’s Central Pennsylvania High School Coach of the Year in 2005.

Her student-athletes have excelled in the classroom as well, counting among them the high school’s valedictorians in 2012 and 2015. Borden has seen former players accepted to seven of the eight Ivy League schools, according to the district.

“I’ve been blessed with the privilege to work with so many student-athletes throughout the years, and I’m most impressed with their accomplishments off the court, in the classroom and in the community,” she said.