After serving as an associate coach over the summer, Missouri tennis’ Colt Gaston was officially named head coach for the program Sept. 3. With eight years of prior assistant coaching experience, Gaston is looking to bring in new success to the team.
“It [is] a surreal moment,” Gaston said. “It was awesome to go through and see all the support from the community of Columbia and really just the staff from the athletics. It’s just awesome to see that they care and they’re pulling for you.”
Before launching his coaching career, Gaston played with Louisiana State’s men’s tennis program where he was a four-year letterwinner and earned Second-Team All-Southeastern Conference Honors in 2006 and SEC Honor Roll in 2007 and 2008.