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Email: sylvain.malroux@sjsu.edu
Sylvain Malroux completed his fourth season at the helm of the San José State University women's tennis program in 2014-15.
In four seasons with the Spartans, Malroux has compiled a 58-34 (.630) record. He owns a 133-91 (.594) mark in 10 total seasons as a head coach at San José State and Nevada and also has four seasons of experience as an assistant coach at Clemson.
San José State closed the 2014-15 campaign on a 7-2 run to finish with a 14-7 overall record, including a 3-1 mark in Mountain West action. The Spartans defended Spartan Courts with a perfect 6-0 record, highlighted by victories over No. 68 Hawai’i and No. 72 San Diego State. San José State spent the final 10 weeks of the season as a nationally ranked team, including a program-best No. 53 ranking in the March 17 iteration of the ITA poll. Under Malroux’s tutelage, Sybille Gauvain and Marie Klocker received All-Mountain West singles honors, and the tandem of Klocker and Gaelle Rey garnered all-conference doubles recognition. The duo of Klocker and Rey became the first doubles tandem in San José State history to be named all-conference multiple times.
The 2013-14 Spartans finished with a 12-14 overall record, including a 9-3 mark at home, with all three losses coming to nationally ranked opponents. After turning in fabulous freshman campaigns that saw them ranked as high as No. 39 as a doubles pair, both Rey and Klocker garnered All-Mountain West recognition in doubles and singles and Rey earned Mountain West Co-Freshman of the Year.
In 2012-13, Malroux led San José State to its most successful season in school history. The Spartans won the Western Athletic Conference Championship (WAC) in Denver, Colo., made their first team appearance at an NCAA Tournament and finished the season ranked No. 63 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) – the first final national ranking in program history. San José State also matched the single-season school record for dual match wins after going 19-6 in the spring.
The strong 2013 campaign resulted in six Spartans receiving All-WAC recognition. Klaudia Boczova, who represented San José State in singles at the NCAA Division I Championships in Urbana, Ill., was the WAC Player of the Year and a first-team All-WAC selection. The duo of Chau Truong and Julianna Bacelar earned first-team All-WAC doubles honors, Bacelar and Sabastiani Leon Chao were named second-team singles selections and the doubles tandems of Boczova and Jessica Willett and Chao and Erica Medlin garnered second-team honors.
Malroux made an immediate impact when he arrived in 2011-12, leading the Spartans to a winning record for the first time since 2008 and a school-record 12 consecutive dual match victories. San Jose State's 13-7 record equaled the most dual match wins in a year since 2009 and represented the best win percentage (.650) since the 1986 team's .760 (19-6) mark.
Under Malroux, the Spartans have reached new heights in the classroom as well. Each of his four teams earned the ITA's All-Academic Team award – extending a program-best streak – and his players have earned ITA Scholar-Athlete recognition 18 times, including Jessica Willitt, who became the first four-time award winner in program history. The seven individual honorees in 2015 marked the most in a single season in program history.
Malroux came to San José State after six successful seasons as the University of Nevada women's tennis coach, where his teams compiled a 75-57 dual match record. Five of his six teams had winning records and each Wolf Pack squad reached the semifinal round of the annual WAC Tournament.
During his tenure at Nevada, two of Malroux's teams were nationally ranked in a final ITA ranking. His 2009 squad checked in at No. 65 in the nation and sixth in the Northwest region, and the 2007 team finished No. 66 in the country. His players earned eight first-team and nine second-team All-WAC honors, two WAC Freshman of the Year awards and 34 academic All-WAC designations.
Malroux, a native of Aurillac, a city in south-central France nearly 350 miles from Paris, doubled as the University of Nevada men's team head coach for the 2010 and 2011 seasons.
Malroux began his American college coaching career as an assistant coach at Clemson University in 2001, and the ITA named him the Division I Southeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2004. In his four seasons, the Tigers competed in the NCAA Championships each year and reached the Final Four in 2004 and 2005. Clemson was ranked in the top 20 in the final ITA national poll in 2003 (No. 19), 2004 (No. 5) and 2005 (No. 10).
The 2004 Clemson graduate also has higher education State Diplomas from his native country. He played his college tennis at Anderson College in South Carolina, where he was the 49th-ranked NCAA Division II singles player and 18th in doubles as a senior at the end of the 2001 season.
Before coming to the United States, Malroux trained at the French Federation Sports-Etudes - the No. 1 school for elite French athletes. As a coach in his native country, he was instrumental in developing top players in France and Corsica and worked with the French Federation and the French Army.
He and his wife, Adrienne, and their sons, Lohan and Milo, reside in San Jose.
| Year | School | Position | Record | Final ITA Ranking | |
| 2015 | San José State | Head Coach | 14-7 | 73 | |
| 2014 | San José State | Head Coach | 12-14 | ||
| 2013 | San José State | Head Coach | 19-6 | WAC Champions | 63 |
| 2012 | San José State | Head Coach | 13-7 | ||
| Totals (4 Seasons) | 58-34 (.630) | ||||
| 2011 | Nevada | Head Coach | 12-10 | WAC Championship- 3rd | |
| 2010 | Nevada | Head Coach | 13-8 | WAC Championship- 2nd | |
| 2009 | Nevada | Head Coach | 13-9 | WAC Championship- 3rd | |
| 2008 | Nevada | Head Coach | 9-11 |
WAC Championship- 3rd |
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| 2007 | Nevada | Head Coach | 14-9 | WAC Championship- T3 | |
| 2006 | Nevada | Head Coach | 14-10 | WAC Championship- T3 | |
| Totals (6 Seasons) | 75-57 (.568) | ||||
| Career Totals (10 seasons) | 133-91 (.594) | ||||
| 2005 | Clemson | Assistant Coach | 22-9 | ACC Championship- 4th | 10 |
| 2004 | Clemson | Assistant Coach | 26-4 |
ACC Championship- 2nd |
5 |
| 2003 | Clemson | Assistant Coach | 19-6 | ACC Champions | 19 |
| 2002 | Clemson | Assistant Coach | 14-11 | ACC Championship- 3rd | 34 |
| Totals (4 Seasons) |