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Kyle Spencer enters his second season as assistant coach to the USC men's tennis program. A former Olympian and USC All-American, he brings with him international playing and coaching experience.
Spencer helped lead the Trojans to their first Pac-10 title since the 1994 season and an NCAA Semifinal appearance in just his first season as an assistant coach. With his help, the 2004 squad finished the year ranked No. 4 in the ITA.
In a short time span, Spencer, 29, has accumulated many credits to his name. At the 2000 Olympic Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, he competed for his native country of Great Britain. That same season, Spencer reached the doubles final at the ATP Championship in Newport, R.I. In his playing career, he competed at Wimbledon three times, two U.S. Opens, represented Great Britain at the 1997 World University Games, represented Scotland at the 2002 Four Nation's Cup and reached a personal-best ATP ranking of No. 110 in doubles.
After retiring from his professional career in 2002, Spencer spent the last year coaching the ATP's top 100-ranked Cecil Mamiit - a former USC NCAA Singles Champion and teammate of Spencer's at Troy.
Spencer was a four-year letterwinner at USC (1995-1998), who helped the Trojans to a seventh-place national finish in 1996 and an eighth-place finish in 1998. He earned doubles ITA All-America honors in 1997 with partner George Bastl after finishing No. 1 in the Rolex/ITA doubles rankings and advancing to the finals of the NCAA Individual Doubles Championship.
Though he enjoyed great success in doubles, Spencer also captured the singles title at the 1997 Rolex/ITA Southern California Regional. He was named to the All-Pac-10 honorable mention team in 1997 and 1998, and the Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention team in 1995.
Spencer graduated from USC in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in international relations and a minor in political science.
He is a 1993 graduate of Palos Verdes (Calif.) Peninsula High. As a prep he won the 1994 USTA junior grasscourt singles title and reached the doubles finals at the USTA National Hard Court Championships in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Spencer was born on Jan. 26, 1976, in Glasgow, Scotland. He is single and currently resides in West Los Angeles.
