Helena Besovic last summer took over Houston’s tennis program after former head coach Courtney Steinbock took off for Arkansas.
The rebuild was not pretty.
UH had come off a measly 2-2 in-conference outing, a loss in the quarterfinals of the American Athletic Conference Championship Tournament and nearly the entire team, including coaches, departed along with Steinbock.
Only then-freshman Elena Tairyan was left, but Besovic quickly filled the roster with transfers from her previous coaching venture at McNeese State.
The 2018 Southland Conference Louisiana Coach of the Year led the team to an undefeated AAC season and 14-7 overall record in just her first year.