Lebanon Valley College Athletics

Jeff Robbins became the Head Coach of LVC's men's tennis team before the start of the 2023-24 season. He was Assistant Men’s Tennis Coach for nine years prior, and he has been on the staff of the women's tennis team since the 2018-19 campaign, spending the spring of 2023 as its Interim Head Coach. 
 
Robbins is a two-time Coach of the Year recipient, garnering the MAC Commonwealth award as Interim Head Coach of the women’s program in 2023 and winning the MAC Freedom award during his first season at the helm of the men’s team in 2024. The men’s and women’s teams have advanced to the conference playoffs every year he has been coaching. The men have advanced to the championship match in 2017, 2018, 2024, and 2025, and won the conference championship to advance to the NCAA Tournament in 2022 and 2023. The women advanced to the championship match in 2021 and won the conference championship to advance to the NCAA Tournament in 2022 and 2023. Along the way, he has helped coach and mentor several players who have been named to the MAC Commonwealth and MAC Freedom All-Conference First Teams and the MAC Academic Honor Roll. As both a professor and a coach, he believes strongly in the ideals of the scholar-athlete, the individual and team pursuits of excellence, and the ways that playing a sport on the Division III level can and should be amongst the most enjoyable and rewarding parts of one's college experience.
 
In addition to his work with the LVC men’s and women’s tennis teams, Robbins is also the Co-Director of the Lebanon Valley Community Tennis Association, a non-profit organization based in the city of Lebanon that offers a multitude of free tennis instructional and recreational play opportunities. He has coached and assisted in coaching junior team tennis in USTA league play and also directed camps, clinics, and sectional USTA tournaments for competitive juniors in the region. He had a successful junior tennis career beginning in his home state of Louisiana. He was his high school's No. 1 singles player on a team that won the LHSAA Division III state championship. He earned a top-ten USTA singles ranking and a top-five doubles ranking as a junior player and won consecutive LHSAA regional singles championships in addition to finishing runner-up in the LHSAA state singles championship match.
 
Robbins competes in USTA league tennis both in singles and doubles and qualified for and competed in the USTA 40+ NTRP National Singles Championship in San Diego, Calif. in 2022 and Orlando, Fla. in 2023. 

Robbins earned his B.A. from Baylor University, his M.Div. from Texas Christian University, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University.