Jimmy Borendame

Biography

Updated 5/11/26 Middle Tennessee’s men’s tennis program is rich in history, and its current head coach, Jimmy Borendame, has now spent 17 years at the helm, making the Blue Raiders a perennial favorite for league titles and competing against the nation’s top talent along the way. Borendame, a Wheaton, Illinois product, helped his team to Sun Belt Conference championships in 2011 and 2012 and most recently followed up with a 7-peat of the Conference USA Championship in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. He’s an 12-time Coach of the Year as Middle Tennessee’s leader. Borendame has led the Blue Raiders to back-to-back top 25 finishes in 2022 and 2023. The current Blue Raider head man came to Murfreesboro by way of Drake after serving a one-year stint as the head men’s tennis coach of the Bulldogs in Des Moines, Iowa. He led Drake to a 15-9 record, which included seven wins in an eight-match stretch from late February to mid-March. Prior to his time in Des Moines, Borendame spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Virginia Tech, including an associate head coaching role for the 2009 season. The Hokies posted a 70-56 (.556) mark, including three NCAA tournament appearances, during his stay in Blacksburg. When his playing days at Butler were complete, Borendame spent one year each at West Virginia (2003) and William & Mary (2004) as an assistant coach. He is married to the former Genevieve McNeill, a Gulfport, Mississippi native who was a standout swimmer at the Unive