Middle Tennessee State University Women's Tennis

Instagram: tayo_b History Head Coach at Middle Tennessee: 2018-Present Head Coach at Butler: 2012-2018 Career Wins as a Head Coach: 141 Bailey-Duvall enters her eighth season at the helm of the Blue Raider Women’s Tennis program for the 2026 season. Bailey-Duvall became the 11th head coach in Middle Tennessee women’s tennis history following her six year tenure at Butler. In her eighth years with Middle Tennessee, Bailey-Duvall has accumulated 88 wins and has had three winning seasons. In the 2025 season, Bailey-Duvall led the Blue Raiders to their most successful season as head coach. Ending the season with a record of 17-9 and making the Conference USA Semifinals for the first time since joining the conference. The Blue Raiders for the first time earned No. 2 seed for the first time in the conference tournament. During the 2024 season, Tayo led MTSU to an 11 win season and a back-to-back double digit wins in a season for the first time since 2018-2019. The Blue Raiders earned their first Power-5 win since 2016 by defeating Lousiville on the road 4-3. She assisted Sana Garakani and Ilaria Sposetti on being tabbed to the Second Team All-CUSA Singles and Lena Peyer on the being selected to the CUSA All-Freshman. In 2023, she helped lead the Blue Raiders to their first season undefeated at home since 2014-15 and earned 12 wins, which is good for the most in a season while at MTSU. During her time as the leader of the Bulldogs, Bailey-Duvall's team won a Big East Tournament matc

As a Coach: Michaela Ode Mitre enters her second season as the assistant coach of the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in 2026 ... She served as a student assistant coach for the Liberty Flames during the 2023-24 season ... Helped lead the Flames to an 18-7 overall record, as well as an unbeaten record at home (9-0) and in Conference USA play (5-0) ... Featured on the staff that led the Flames to a CUSA Tournament Championship match appearance in 2024 against No. 1 seed FIU (5/4/24) ... Defeated Appalachian State 4-3 in the first round of the UTR Sports NIT Championship. As a Player: Sophomore at Liberty (2021-22) Honored as ITA Scholar-Athlete for third straight year ... Selected to ASUN All-Academic team ... Garnered inclusion on ASUN Academic Honor Roll for a third time ... Finished tied for second on the squad with 19 doubles wins, 12 in the spring and seven in the fall ... Won nine doubles matches with partner Tiffany Nguyen (most of any Liberty pairing), posting a 9-4 overall record (9-3 spring) ... Held 7-2 record with Nguyen in the No. 3 slot, 1-0 mark at No. 1 and 1-1 mark at No. 2 ... Posted 5-1 ASUN doubles record with Nguyen ... Enters fourth season at Liberty ranked No. 7 in program history for best career doubles winning percentage (.686, 48-22 record) ... Ended year third on the team with a career-best 18 singles wins, 12 in the spring and six in the fall ... Posted 6-1 record in ASUN regular season singles contests ... Went 10-1 in the No. 6 slot in the lineup an

The Middle Tennessee women's tennis program has added Scott Kathary as an volunteer assistant coach announced by head coach Tayo Bailey-Duvall in August 2019...