Marquette University Women's Tennis

The 2025-26 campaign will mark the first for Brett Barnett as head women's tennis coach at Marquette University. Barnett is the sixth head coach in program h...

Dr. Adrienne Ridgeway is in her 21st year overall with Marquette in 2025-26 and was promoted to Deputy Athletic Director, Student-Athlete Well-Being in May of 2025, serving as the department's lead internal administrator. Ridgeway oversees academics, sports medicine, sports performance, and mental health and wellness initiatives for Marquette's student-athletes. She is responsible for providing the strategic vision for the academic and student programs staff, which works with the group of over 300 student-athletes, and serves as the primary academic liaison to campus working specifically with the men's basketball team and women's and men's tennis teams. In addition to her academic responsibilities, Ridgeway serves as sport administrator to the Marquette men's and women's cross country and track teams and women's lacrosse programs and is a past Chair of the NCAA Research Committee. She was appointed the department's Athletics Diversity and Inclusion Designee (AIDA). Prior to Marquette, Ridgeway spent two years with the Milwaukee Public Schools as a Speech-Language Pathologist. She ran track for four years at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and received her bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology and master's degree in speech-language pathology while working as a graduate assistant to the athletics director. Ridgeway also holds a Master of Education in College Student Personnel Administration from Marquette and earned her doctorate in interdisciplinary leadership i

Matthew Martin joined the Marquette Sports Medicine staff in August 2024 as an Assistant Athletic Trainer and works with men's soccer and women's tennis team...

Sam Lebowitz currently serves as Assistant Director of Sports Performance at Marquette University. In his role, he works with the women's lacrosse, men's and women's tennis and men's and women's cross country teams. Lebowitz arrived at Marquette after spending two years at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. During this time, he worked as the Director of Strength and Conditioning. He was primarily in charge of men's basketball, men's soccer, women's volleyball, and track and field. Prior to Milwaukee, Lebowitz served as both Assistant and Director of Strength and Conditioning at the University of California, Riverside. During his six-year tenure at UC Riverside, he trained all sports teams. While in California, he also earned his master's degree in exercise science from California Baptist University in 2019. Lebowitz is originally from Fayetteville, New York and now resides in New Berlin with his wife Jess.