Troy University Women's Tennis

Record at Troy: 129-112, 45-39 SBC (13th Season in 2025-26) Rawia Elsisi enters her 15th season overall and her 13th as women’s head coach at Troy, her alma mater, in 2025-26. Rawia finished her 12th season under the helm with a 13-10, 6-5 SBC record with six sweeps during the spring season, including a trio of league matches against Texas State, Louisiana and ULM to finish seventh in the standings. Under Rawia, Maria Guirguis and Valeriia Avdeeva earned All-Sun Belt Singles Second Team nods as the pair combined for a 46-16, 15-4 SBC record. The pair was also solid in doubles play, with a 17-11, 5-4 SBC record on court one. In the Sun Belt Tournament, she coached the Trojans through No. 10-seed Coastal Carolina, 4-2, and No. 2-seed App State, 4-3, to reach the semifinals for the second straight season and finish as the No. 10 team in the ITA Southern Regional Rankings. Meanwhile, in the fall tournament schedule, Rawia coached Leena Metwally to a 3-0 in singles and 2-0 in doubles at the Samford Fall Invitational to open the 2024-25 season. She ended the fall schedule in the historic Roberta Alison Fall Classic as her Trojans went 7-2 in singles and 2-1 in doubles with wins over Louisville, Mississippi State, Auburn, Georgia and South Alabama. The Trojans are coming off one of their best seasons in program history after securing 16 wins in 2024, it's most since 2014 (15). Troy also claimed its most conference wins since joining the Sun Belt with nine. Troy made it all the way t

Richard Shaughnessy joined the Troy University staff in 1997 and was recently promoted to Director of Strength and Conditioning in January 2015. As a testament to Shaughnessy’s success as a strength and conditioning coach, he was inducted as a Master Strength Coach by the College of Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCA) in May of 2009. This is the highest honor awarded for individuals in the field of strength and conditioning. A certified strength and conditioning specialist with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), Shaughnessy has been instrumental in developing stronger, quicker and more durable athletes at Troy University. He is a certified member of the College Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCA), the National Association of Speed and Explosion (NASE) and is a club coach for the United States Weightlifting Federation. He is the state director for both the NSCA and NASE. Shaughnessy has been involved with powerlifting for the past 33 years and has spent the last 23 working with human performance. Shaughnessy also works with student-athletes after the conclusion of their collegiate playing careers, helping many to move on to the professional level. Over the past 14 years, more than 90 of Shaughnessy’s student-athletes have had the opportunity to compete at the next level following the conclusion of their careers at Troy University. In October of 2003, Shaughnessy was selected by the National Strength and Conditioning A