Bio

Steph Wooten became Weatherford College's head tennis coach in 2024.

Under Wooten’s leadership, the WC men’s tennis team has progressed from a 14^th place finish at the 2025 NJCAA Division I National Tournament to sixth place at the 2026 national tournament. The WC women’s team was ninth place in both the 2025 and 2026 national tourneys.

She has coached three All-Americans in her two years at WC (Claire Mahere, 2025, ITA; Andres Serrano, 2025, NJCAA; Matteo Cardoso, 2026, ITA).

Wooten, a native of Crandall, Texas, came to WC with head coaching experience from the University of New Mexico, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Stephen F. Austin State University, Lee College, and, most recently, Butler University in Indianapolis. 

In addition to her collegiate coaching experience, Wooten served as a tennis coach at Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas, working with nationally and internationally ranked players in their junior tennis academy.  

In her single season at UTRGV (2015-16), she led the program to the Western Athletic Conference Tournament title, the university’s first WAC championship in any sport.  

In her two seasons at SFA (2011-13), beginning as an assistant before becoming head coach, the Lumberjacks won the first conference championship in program history and earned their highest national ranking (No. 35).  

Wooten began her coaching career as interim head coach at Lee College in 2010-11. Her team finished runners-up at the NJCAA National Tournament. She moved on to the University of Houston, where, as an assistant, she helped her team to a runner-up finish at the American Athletic Conference Tournament.  

At Crandall High School, Wooten was a four-time state champion in Class 3A and went undefeated all four years of high school. She moved on to play Division I tennis at Purdue University for five years, earning team captain and Team MVP status as a junior and senior.