Tyler Macy is an assistant coach for William & Mary men’s tennis in Williamsburg, Virginia, and enters his second season on the Tribe staff after joining the program in August 2025. In his first year in Williamsburg, he helped William & Mary advance to the CAA Championship semifinals as the No. 6 seed and finish 10-13 overall while winning three of its final four matches. The postseason was highlighted by a 4-0 quarterfinal victory over No. 3 seed Campbell, the first time a No. 6 seed defeated a No. 3 seed in tournament history. The Tribe also finished the season ranked No. 10 in the ITA Atlantic Region. William & Mary earned four All-CAA honors, with Gur Trakhtenberg receiving first-team singles recognition and pairing with Oliver Hague for first-team doubles honors. Hague added second-team singles recognition, Nikita Bortnichek earned third-team singles honors, Hague finished the season ranked No. 17 in the ITA Atlantic Region in singles, and the Hague-Trakhtenberg doubles team ended the year ranked No. 7 in the region.
Off the court, Bortnichek and Albert Hansen were selected to the CSC Academic All-District Team. Macy arrived at William & Mary after spending the previous season as an assistant coach at Gardner-Webb, his alma mater. There, he helped guide the Runnin’ Bulldogs to a 20-5 record, the first Big South Tournament championship in program history, and an NCAA Tournament berth. Gardner-Webb also finished the season ranked No. 8 in the Carolinas Region and No. 75 nationally after earning the first national ranking in program history earlier in the year. The program’s individual honors included both the Big South Freshman of the Year and the Big South Player of the Year in 2025. Earlier in his coaching career, Macy also worked as an assistant at Virginia Wesleyan in the spring of 2020, contributing to both the men’s and women’s programs. In addition to his college coaching experience, Macy has nearly five years of work as a tennis professional and director. From 2022 to 2024, he served as Director of Court Sports at Statesville Country Club and Rock Barn Country Club and Spa in North Carolina. Before that, he spent nearly two years at Atlantic Beach Country Club in Florida, first as a tennis professional and later as head professional in 2022. He began his professional career in 2019 as head tennis professional at Bloomington Tennis Center in Illinois. Macy graduated from Gardner-Webb in 2018 with a degree in business administration. In high school, he led his team to a North Carolina state team championship and also won an individual state title in 2012 and a doubles state championship in 2013.
