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Howard Endelman '87 to Take Reins as Men's Tennis Head Coach Following 2018-19 Season
3/13/2019 12:00:00 PM | Men's Tennis
After nine years as Columbia's Associate Head Coach, Howard Endelman '87CC will succeed Bid Goswami as Head Coach of Men's Tennis and Director of Tennis Operations beginning with the 2019-20 season
NEW YORK — On the heels of a 35-year association with Columbia tennis, Howard Endelman '87 will succeed Bid Goswami as Columbia's Head Coach of Men's Tennis and Director of Tennis Operations following the conclusion of the 2018-19 season.
Columbia recently announced Goswami's retirement and Endelman's appointment in a news release on February 7, 2019. Upon Goswami's retirement, the position will be renamed the Bidyut K. Goswami Head Coach of Men's Tennis as an endowment was established in Goswami's name in 2007. Endelman also will assume the position of Director of Tennis Operations with facility oversight responsibilities.
Endelman has the unique distinction of having played a prominent role in the success of the Columbia tennis program as an associate men's coach (2010-current), head women's coach (1989-92) and also as a student-athlete (1984-87). As a four-year standout player and two-year team captain for the Lions, Endelman helped guide the Lions to two Ivy League championships in 1984 and 1987. He served as Columbia's Head Women's Tennis Coach for three seasons as he built the program and orchestrated an impressive turnaround. Later, after a successful business and legal career, Goswami brought him back as the Men's Associate Head Coach in August 2010, a position he has maintained for the last nine years. Endelman seems to always return to Columbia, a place he loves with a passion. This time, it's for good.
Since his return in 2010, Endelman, alongside Goswami, has helped the Columbia men's program emerge as the team to beat in the Ivy League and one to be reckoned with on the national stage (with a current ITA national ranking of No. 9 as of March 12, 2019). The Lions have captured the past five Ivy League championships, earned a program-best and Ivy League history-best No. 5 national ranking, advanced to three NCAA Championships Sweet 16s, earned four ITA National Team Indoor Championship berths and hosted an NCAA Championships Regional (first and second rounds) in 2018 for the first time in program history. Since mid-2013, Columbia's dual-match record against Ivy League schools is 43-2. In the past five-and-a-half seasons, Columbia has defeated a bevy of top national scholarship programs, including Baylor (twice), California (twice), Georgia Tech, Michigan, Mississippi (three times), Notre Dame (twice), Oklahoma State, SMU (five times), Stanford, TCU (three times), Tennessee, Texas Tech, Tulane, Tulsa, Vanderbilt (three times) and Virginia.
From 2014 to 2018, the Lions have finished the season nationally ranked at No. 17, No. 14, No. 28, No. 25 and No. 15. Columbia has multiple players present in the national individual (singles and doubles) rankings and the Lions are annual participants in the fall's national individual tournaments. Ashok Narayana '15 and Max Schnur '15 won the 2013 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate National Doubles Championship. The current GPA of the Columbia Men's Tennis program is 3.74, the highest of all 31 Columbia athletic teams. In the last five years, Columbia's recruiting classes have been ranked four times in the top-12 in the Tennis Recruiting Network NCAA Division I national rankings with three top-10 finishes in that five-year span.
"As a member of Bid's first recruiting class, it has been an honor to play for, work with and now succeed a true legend, mentor and close friend," said Endelman. "By doing our best to simultaneously support and challenge our players, we will continue to aim to develop a fun culture that offers every opportunity to succeed academically, athletically and personally at Columbia, and then later to live happy, balanced and fulfilling lives. One of the primary goals is for our student-athletes to feel in the future that they are better prepared for overall gratification and success because of the values and principles they cultivated as Columbia Tennis players."
"I am confident our program is in a very healthy and strong position now," Goswami said. "So it feels this is the perfect time for me to retire. Life often moves in circles. How apropos then – and most exciting for me – that my very first recruit Howard Endelman will take over the helm for Lions tennis. His love and passion for Columbia and his knowledge of the game are unmatched. Howard will keep our program exciting and strong for many years to come. I cannot think of a better person to lead Columbia Tennis."
"We couldn't be more excited to welcome Howard Endelman as our new Head Men's Tennis Coach and Director of Tennis Operations following the 2018-19 season," Campbell Family Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Peter Pilling said. "As a former Columbia student-athlete, head women's coach and assistant men's coach for the past nine years, Howard is the perfect fit to lead our men's tennis program into the future following Bid's retirement. Howard has done a fantastic job in building our men's tennis team into one of the nation's elite programs. His skills in team building, player development and recruiting are a direct reflection in the success our program has achieved over the last five years. It should be a seamless transition."
Over the years, Endelman has earned a variety of national and regional coaching awards. He was honored as the ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2015, the ITA Northeast Regional Assistant Coach of the Year in both 2013 and 2018 and was inducted into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.
Part of Goswami's first recruiting class at Columbia in 1983, Endelman went on to become one of the most successful players in Columbia men's tennis history. While playing for the Lions, he amassed Ivy League/EITA individual playing records of 30-4 in singles and 31-3 in doubles and led the team to two Ivy League/EITA titles. He was named First-Team All-Ivy League/EITA three times and served as captain of the 1987 team, which ranked as high as No.15 in the nation in NCAA Division I. During Endelman's playing career, Columbia achieved a 33-3 Ivy League/EITA record.
After his graduation from Columbia in 1987, Endelman spent three years on the ATP World Tour, where he participated in the main draw of the US Open and Qualifying at Wimbledon while achieving career-best ATP World Tour rankings of No. 183 in doubles and No. 609 in singles.
At the end of 1989, Endelman took the reins of the Columbia women's tennis team as its head coach. At 24 years of age, he was the youngest head coach at that time of any sport at the NCAA Division I level. Endelman inherited a team with only three players and orchestrated one of the most impressive turnarounds in Columbia Athletics history, leading the team to its best record ever within just three seasons. He coached Janette Kizer-Antiles '92BC, a member of the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame class of 2008, who was the school's first women's tennis player to earn All-Ivy League accolades.
Endelman left Columbia in 1992 to attend law school at Boston College, where he earned his J.D. in 1995, and was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the International and Comparative Law Review. After practicing law for three years at the international law firm of Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells, Endelman moved on in 1998 to a 12-year Wall Street and business career, which included positions as a Vice President in investment banking at Merrill Lynch, an Executive Vice President at InsideOut Sports + Entertainment, and as a founding partner of Baseline Partners, a private equity investment firm based in India.
COLUMBIA MEN'S TENNIS SINCE HOWARD ENDELMAN'S ARRIVAL IN AUGUST 2010—BY THE NUMBERS:
3 – NCAA Championships Sweet 16 Appearances (2014, 2015, 2018)
4 – ITA National Team Indoor Championship Sweet 16 Appearances (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)
5 – Highest ITA Team National Ranking (Feb. 27, 2018)
5 – Ivy League Championships (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
2 – Ivy League Runners-up (2012, 2013)
6 – NCAA Championships Appearances (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
2 – All-American Honors (Winston Lin – 2014, 2015)
3 – Ivy League Players of the Year (Winston Lin – 2014; Shawn Hadavi – 2016; Victor Pham –2018)
2 – Ivy League Rookies of the Year (Winston Lin – 2012; Dragos Ignat – 2013)
1 – USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Doubles Championship (Ashok Narayana/Max Schnur—2013)
THE HOWARD ENDELMAN FILE
Hometown
Roslyn, N.Y.
Education
Bachelor of Arts-Political Science, Columbia University/Columbia College, 1987
J.D., Boston College Law School, Editor-in-Chief of International and Comparative Law Review, 1995
Coaching Career
Head Coach of Men's Tennis and Director of Tennis Operations, Columbia University, 2019-
Associate Head Coach of Men's Tennis, Columbia University, 2010-19
Head Coach of Women's Tennis, Columbia University, 1989-92
Professional Playing Career
Spent three years on the ATP Tour … Competed in the main draw of the US Open and the Qualifying at Wimbledon … Achieved career-high rankings of No. 183 in doubles and No. 609 in singles … Won two doubles events in the ATP Challenger Series in Dijon, France and Chicoutimi, Canada … ATP Alumni Member … Career matches against former ATP World No. 1 players Ivan Lendl, Jim Courier and Boris Becker … Other professional doubles matches against Joakim Nystrom/Mikael Pernfors and Paul Annacone/Patrick McEnroe … Also trained with 1990 French Open champion Andres Gomez.
Collegiate Career
Four-year men's tennis letterman at Columbia (1984-87) … Advanced to the NCAA Doubles Championships … Three-time First Team All-Ivy League selection … Two-time team captain … As a senior in 1987, led the Lions to the Ivy League title, NCAA Championships appearance and No. 23 final national ranking … As a first-year in 1984, Columbia went 17-0, won an Ivy League title and qualified for the NCAA Championships … Played for retiring coach Bid Goswami … Was Goswami's first recruit.
Columbia recently announced Goswami's retirement and Endelman's appointment in a news release on February 7, 2019. Upon Goswami's retirement, the position will be renamed the Bidyut K. Goswami Head Coach of Men's Tennis as an endowment was established in Goswami's name in 2007. Endelman also will assume the position of Director of Tennis Operations with facility oversight responsibilities.
Endelman has the unique distinction of having played a prominent role in the success of the Columbia tennis program as an associate men's coach (2010-current), head women's coach (1989-92) and also as a student-athlete (1984-87). As a four-year standout player and two-year team captain for the Lions, Endelman helped guide the Lions to two Ivy League championships in 1984 and 1987. He served as Columbia's Head Women's Tennis Coach for three seasons as he built the program and orchestrated an impressive turnaround. Later, after a successful business and legal career, Goswami brought him back as the Men's Associate Head Coach in August 2010, a position he has maintained for the last nine years. Endelman seems to always return to Columbia, a place he loves with a passion. This time, it's for good.
Since his return in 2010, Endelman, alongside Goswami, has helped the Columbia men's program emerge as the team to beat in the Ivy League and one to be reckoned with on the national stage (with a current ITA national ranking of No. 9 as of March 12, 2019). The Lions have captured the past five Ivy League championships, earned a program-best and Ivy League history-best No. 5 national ranking, advanced to three NCAA Championships Sweet 16s, earned four ITA National Team Indoor Championship berths and hosted an NCAA Championships Regional (first and second rounds) in 2018 for the first time in program history. Since mid-2013, Columbia's dual-match record against Ivy League schools is 43-2. In the past five-and-a-half seasons, Columbia has defeated a bevy of top national scholarship programs, including Baylor (twice), California (twice), Georgia Tech, Michigan, Mississippi (three times), Notre Dame (twice), Oklahoma State, SMU (five times), Stanford, TCU (three times), Tennessee, Texas Tech, Tulane, Tulsa, Vanderbilt (three times) and Virginia.
From 2014 to 2018, the Lions have finished the season nationally ranked at No. 17, No. 14, No. 28, No. 25 and No. 15. Columbia has multiple players present in the national individual (singles and doubles) rankings and the Lions are annual participants in the fall's national individual tournaments. Ashok Narayana '15 and Max Schnur '15 won the 2013 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate National Doubles Championship. The current GPA of the Columbia Men's Tennis program is 3.74, the highest of all 31 Columbia athletic teams. In the last five years, Columbia's recruiting classes have been ranked four times in the top-12 in the Tennis Recruiting Network NCAA Division I national rankings with three top-10 finishes in that five-year span.
"As a member of Bid's first recruiting class, it has been an honor to play for, work with and now succeed a true legend, mentor and close friend," said Endelman. "By doing our best to simultaneously support and challenge our players, we will continue to aim to develop a fun culture that offers every opportunity to succeed academically, athletically and personally at Columbia, and then later to live happy, balanced and fulfilling lives. One of the primary goals is for our student-athletes to feel in the future that they are better prepared for overall gratification and success because of the values and principles they cultivated as Columbia Tennis players."
"I am confident our program is in a very healthy and strong position now," Goswami said. "So it feels this is the perfect time for me to retire. Life often moves in circles. How apropos then – and most exciting for me – that my very first recruit Howard Endelman will take over the helm for Lions tennis. His love and passion for Columbia and his knowledge of the game are unmatched. Howard will keep our program exciting and strong for many years to come. I cannot think of a better person to lead Columbia Tennis."
"We couldn't be more excited to welcome Howard Endelman as our new Head Men's Tennis Coach and Director of Tennis Operations following the 2018-19 season," Campbell Family Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Peter Pilling said. "As a former Columbia student-athlete, head women's coach and assistant men's coach for the past nine years, Howard is the perfect fit to lead our men's tennis program into the future following Bid's retirement. Howard has done a fantastic job in building our men's tennis team into one of the nation's elite programs. His skills in team building, player development and recruiting are a direct reflection in the success our program has achieved over the last five years. It should be a seamless transition."
Over the years, Endelman has earned a variety of national and regional coaching awards. He was honored as the ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2015, the ITA Northeast Regional Assistant Coach of the Year in both 2013 and 2018 and was inducted into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.
Part of Goswami's first recruiting class at Columbia in 1983, Endelman went on to become one of the most successful players in Columbia men's tennis history. While playing for the Lions, he amassed Ivy League/EITA individual playing records of 30-4 in singles and 31-3 in doubles and led the team to two Ivy League/EITA titles. He was named First-Team All-Ivy League/EITA three times and served as captain of the 1987 team, which ranked as high as No.15 in the nation in NCAA Division I. During Endelman's playing career, Columbia achieved a 33-3 Ivy League/EITA record.
After his graduation from Columbia in 1987, Endelman spent three years on the ATP World Tour, where he participated in the main draw of the US Open and Qualifying at Wimbledon while achieving career-best ATP World Tour rankings of No. 183 in doubles and No. 609 in singles.
At the end of 1989, Endelman took the reins of the Columbia women's tennis team as its head coach. At 24 years of age, he was the youngest head coach at that time of any sport at the NCAA Division I level. Endelman inherited a team with only three players and orchestrated one of the most impressive turnarounds in Columbia Athletics history, leading the team to its best record ever within just three seasons. He coached Janette Kizer-Antiles '92BC, a member of the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame class of 2008, who was the school's first women's tennis player to earn All-Ivy League accolades.
Endelman left Columbia in 1992 to attend law school at Boston College, where he earned his J.D. in 1995, and was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the International and Comparative Law Review. After practicing law for three years at the international law firm of Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells, Endelman moved on in 1998 to a 12-year Wall Street and business career, which included positions as a Vice President in investment banking at Merrill Lynch, an Executive Vice President at InsideOut Sports + Entertainment, and as a founding partner of Baseline Partners, a private equity investment firm based in India.
COLUMBIA MEN'S TENNIS SINCE HOWARD ENDELMAN'S ARRIVAL IN AUGUST 2010—BY THE NUMBERS:
3 – NCAA Championships Sweet 16 Appearances (2014, 2015, 2018)
4 – ITA National Team Indoor Championship Sweet 16 Appearances (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)
5 – Highest ITA Team National Ranking (Feb. 27, 2018)
5 – Ivy League Championships (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
2 – Ivy League Runners-up (2012, 2013)
6 – NCAA Championships Appearances (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
2 – All-American Honors (Winston Lin – 2014, 2015)
3 – Ivy League Players of the Year (Winston Lin – 2014; Shawn Hadavi – 2016; Victor Pham –2018)
2 – Ivy League Rookies of the Year (Winston Lin – 2012; Dragos Ignat – 2013)
1 – USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Doubles Championship (Ashok Narayana/Max Schnur—2013)
THE HOWARD ENDELMAN FILE
Hometown
Roslyn, N.Y.
Education
Bachelor of Arts-Political Science, Columbia University/Columbia College, 1987
J.D., Boston College Law School, Editor-in-Chief of International and Comparative Law Review, 1995
Coaching Career
Head Coach of Men's Tennis and Director of Tennis Operations, Columbia University, 2019-
Associate Head Coach of Men's Tennis, Columbia University, 2010-19
Head Coach of Women's Tennis, Columbia University, 1989-92
Professional Playing Career
Spent three years on the ATP Tour … Competed in the main draw of the US Open and the Qualifying at Wimbledon … Achieved career-high rankings of No. 183 in doubles and No. 609 in singles … Won two doubles events in the ATP Challenger Series in Dijon, France and Chicoutimi, Canada … ATP Alumni Member … Career matches against former ATP World No. 1 players Ivan Lendl, Jim Courier and Boris Becker … Other professional doubles matches against Joakim Nystrom/Mikael Pernfors and Paul Annacone/Patrick McEnroe … Also trained with 1990 French Open champion Andres Gomez.
Collegiate Career
Four-year men's tennis letterman at Columbia (1984-87) … Advanced to the NCAA Doubles Championships … Three-time First Team All-Ivy League selection … Two-time team captain … As a senior in 1987, led the Lions to the Ivy League title, NCAA Championships appearance and No. 23 final national ranking … As a first-year in 1984, Columbia went 17-0, won an Ivy League title and qualified for the NCAA Championships … Played for retiring coach Bid Goswami … Was Goswami's first recruit.
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