The Daily Cougar · Jun 23, 2019
Q&A: Tennis coach reflects on first season
Helena Besovic had to rebuild after taking over last summer a virtually nonexistent team. | File photo/The CougarHelena 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.