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Tayo Bailey-Duvall is a women's Tennis coach currently serving as the head coach at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.
[1] Bailey-Duvall enters her seventh season at the helm of the Blue Raider Women's Tennis program for the 2025 season. Bailey-Duvall became the 11th head coach in Middle Tennessee women's tennis history following her six year tenure at Butler.
In her six years with Middle Tennessee, Bailey-Duvall has accumulated 63 wins and has had two winning seasons.
In her sixth season, Tayo led MTSU to an 11 win season and a back-to-back double digit wins in a season for the first time since 2018-2019. The Blue Raiders earned their first Power-5 win since 2016 by defeating Lousiville on the road 4-3. She assisted Sana Garakani and Ilaria Sposetti on being tabbed to the Second Team All-CUSA Singles and Lena Peyer on the being selected to the CUSA All-Freshman.
In 2023, she helped lead the Blue Raiders to their first season undefeated at home since 2014-15 and earned 12 wins, which is good for the most in a season while at MTSU.
During her time as the leader of the Bulldogs, Bailey-Duvall's team won a Big East Tournament match in four of her five seasons. Additionally, the tennis program earned NCAA Public Recognition Awards every year of Bailey-Duvall's time as head coach, which honors teams for ranking in the top 10% of their sport based on their multiyear Academic Progress Rates.
Playing Career
editBailey-Duvall was a three-time first team All-Conference tennis honoree for Butler University in Indianapolis Indiana. She has 74-46 all-time singles record and led the Bulldogs to three appearances in the Horizon League tournament final before graduating in 2006 with a degree in biology.
Bailey-Duvall played tennis professionally at the Goldfine-Smatt International Tennis Academy in Hallandale Beach Florida.[2]
Coaching Career
editBailey-Duvall worked as an assitant women's tennis assistant coach for two seasons at Butler. Butler advanced to the Horizon League championship match in both seasons she was on staff. She returned as the head coach at Butler 2012 after playing professionally. In 2018 Bailey-Duvall accepted the head coach position at Middle Tennessee State University.
Personal Life
editBailey-Duvall is a native of Chicago. She began playing tennis at Love to Serve Inc. on Chicago's Southside.[3] Bailey-Duvall and her husband Brett reside in Murfreesboro with their two daughters Taya and Taytum.
References
edit- ^ "Tayo Bailey-Duvall - Head Women's Tennis Coach - Staff Directory". Middle Tennessee State University Athletics. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
- ^ "Tayo Bailey '06 - Head Coach - Women's Tennis Coaches". Butler University Athletics. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
- ^ "VIProfile: Tayo Bailey-Duvall". VIP Murfreesboro. Retrieved 2024-08-14.