University of Richmond Women's Tennis

Houston Barrick enters his ninth season as head coach of the Spiders ahead of the 2025-26 season after being named to the post prior to the 2017-18 campaign. In 2024-25, Barrick led Richmond to its third straight winning season and third consecutive appearance in the Atlantic 10 Championship semifinals. The Spiders posted a 12-9 overall record, went 4-2 in conference play and earned the No. 3 seed in the tournament. Richmond finished 5-2 at the Westhampton Tennis Complex and reached the A-10 semifinals before falling 4-2 to No. 2 VCU. Barrick coached Davis Wiley and Dylan Atkinson to A-10 All-Conference First Team honors while Cole Brashear and Paxton Pritchard earned spots on the second team. With five freshmen on the roster in 2023-24, Barrick led Richmond to a 14-8 overall record that included a 6-1 mark in A-10 action, a 5-4 record at the Westhampton Tennis Complex, an even 3-3 road record and a 6-1 mark on neutral courts. The Spiders downed No. 7 St. Bonaventure to open the 2024 Atlantic 10 Championship. Barrick also coached Daniel Kliebhan to All-Conference First Team accolades while Wiley, Pritchard and Sebastian Miano picked up second team honors. In 2022-23, Barrick guided the Spiders to a 14-9 record and a 3-2 mark in conference play. The team went 5-1 at home and made a strong A-10 Championship run, defeating No. 10 Fordham 4-0 before narrowly falling to No. 6 Dayton 4-3 in the semifinals. Kliebhan earned first team honors, while William Karpinski and John Walsh we

Emily Dunbar is in her third season as associate head coach for the Richmond men’s and women’s tennis programs in 2024-25. Since joining the staff in 2022, she has helped guide the women’s team to back-to-back appearances in the Atlantic 10 Championship final. Richmond posted its winningest season since 2009 in 2024-25, finishing 16-7 overall with an 11-match win streak and three All-Conference First Team honorees under her and head coach Jacob Dunbar’s leadership. As a coach, Dunbar has played an instrumental role in player development and match preparation, contributing to the team’s rise in the Atlantic 10 standings and consistent postseason success. A former Spider standout herself, Dunbar was a four-time Atlantic 10 First Team All-Conference honoree. She launched her Richmond career by winning the Flight A singles title at the 2017 Cissie Leary Invitational and was named A-10 Most Outstanding Rookie Performer and Co-Most Outstanding Performer as a freshman. She played all five years at the No. 1 singles spot, compiling numerous marquee wins—including a dominant 6-1, 6-0 victory over Liberty’s top player in 2021—and helped the Spiders reach the 2021 A-10 Championship final. As a graduate student in 2021-22, she went 9-7 in singles and 5-2 in A-10 play while anchoring the top of the lineup. In doubles, she partnered with Sara Salemyr to go 4-2 in conference action, including tournament wins over top pairs from Duquesne and VCU.

Jacob Dunbar enters his fourth year at the helm of the Spider women’s tennis program ahead of the 2025-26 season. In 2024-25, Dunbar led Richmond to its second-straight appearance in the Atlantic 10 Championship final, guiding the Spiders to a 16-7 overall record and a 6-2 mark in conference play. The team posted a 9-2 record at the Westhampton Tennis Complex, a 5-4 road record, and went 2-1 on neutral courts. Richmond rattled off an 11-match win streak during the season en route to the program’s winningest campaign since the 2008-09 championship team went 17-6. Under Dunbar’s leadership, the Spiders advanced to the A-10 title match for the second consecutive season, ultimately falling to VCU, 4-1, in the final. He also coached Andrea Campodonico, Lara Bakhaya, and Sofia Barbulescu to Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team honors, as the Spiders continued their rise within the league. The 2023-24 campaign saw Richmond finish with an 11-11 overall record and a 4-4 conference mark. The Spiders posted a 5-1 home record, 2-9 road mark, and 4-1 record on neutral courts. That season, Dunbar coached Campodonico and Carly Cohen to All-Conference First Team accolades and Leonor Oliveira to All-Conference Second Team recognition. Dunbar previously served as associate head coach for both the men’s and women’s programs in 2022-23, helping the women’s team to a 10-15 record and a pair of wins in the A-10 Championship. During that campaign, Campodonico and Oliveira earned All-Conference Sec