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Men's Tennis Coach Martin Dowd is the dean of Catholic University coaches, having coached longer and enjoyed more victories (500 on March 9th, 2010) than any other active Cardinals mentor.
Dowd's successful affiliation with the CUA tennis program spans more than five decades. Beginning in 1956 as a freshman, he has been associated with the team every year except 1961, when he was on active duty in the United States Coast Guard. He worked as an assistant coach in 1962 and took over the program the following year.
Although Dowd's teams have compiled 38 winning seasons and a .600 winning percentage (500-333), the veteran coach maintains a proper perspective on success. "Winning and losing are not as important as playing up to your ability, never giving up and behaving like a gentleman at all times."
While playing tennis for CUA, Dowd led the squad to a 27-3 (.900) record his final two years, including a perfect 15-0 finish as a senior. Undefeated in doubles those two seasons, his overall record was an impressive 48-5 (.906). He graduated from CUA in 1960 with a bachelor's in art.
Dowd and his wife, Jone, the Cardinals' former senior associate director of athletics, live in Burtonsville, Md. All three of their daughters-Dana, Jennifer and Tara-played tennis at CUA under Jone Dowd. Their son, Michael, played at Division I George Washington University and was the head women's coach at the University of Pennsylvania for 12 years. Dana coaches the CUA women's team.
Richard Bausch
A 1979 graduate of CUA's School of Engineering, Rich Bausch returns to his alma mater with a comprehensive and extensive background in high performance athletic coaching and in instructional/fitness program administration.
Bausch served as the Head Women's and Men's Tennis Coach at Georgetown University from 1980 to 2006. His teams won 456 matches. During his career there, Georgetown celebrated a BIG EAST Men's Conference Championship - the only championship won in any sport in the history of the Conference by a non-scholarship team. Bausch also coached eight individual BIG EAST Tournament Champions, thirty Academic All American awardees and two Rhodes Scholar finalists. Rich served as President of the BIG EAST Tennis Coaches Association from 1987-1995. In 1990, he was the recipient of the HOYAS Unlimited Coaching Achievement Award.
Prior to his advent in Division I collegiate coaching at age 22, Bausch was a NCAA Division I student-athlete at Catholic University under the tutelage of Coach Marty Dowd. A four-year starter for the CUA tennis team, Bausch had a fabulous junior season, beating the #1 players from American, George Mason, Towson, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Loyola, George Washington, Mount St. Mary's, Concordia, Old Dominion and Villanova among others. He was selected to play in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Championship where, as the #5 seed, he advanced to the quarterfinals. A team captain in his junior and senior seasons, he was named the CUA tennis team's Most Valuable Player during his sophomore, junior, and senior years. In 2003, Catholic University inducted Bausch into its Athletic Hall of Fame.
Rich currently serves as Director of Tennis for the Army-Navy
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