Former Gophers star Mohamed Ibrahim returns to Minnesota as running backs Coach Mo, while tennis head coach Lois Arterberry reflects on a difficult 2026 season and former Hamline coach Chip Taylor lands at Lehigh.
Lois Arterberry
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Black tennis coaches celebrate their historic matchup
Minnesota and Illinois in women’s tennis have met 32 times since 1991, and the 33rd meeting was the first time ever that both schools’ squads were coached by Black women, Lois Arterberry and Gabrielle Moore, who once were college teammates at Southern University.
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Black tennis coaches face off
Black female head coaches Lois Arterberry and Gabrielle Moore will face each other for the first time this season when Minnesota hosts Indiana in women’s tennis, with both coaches having a rich history in college tennis.
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Women coaches of color ‘dramatically underrepresented’ in U.S. colleges
The University of Minnesota Tucker Center’s latest report found that 174 institutions have zero women head coaches of color, while HBCUs have 13 of 15 institutions with 100% women coaches of color, and the Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti believes that diversity should lead to more opportunities for Black and women of color.
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Lois Arterberry leads Gophers women’s tennis to strong start
The Gophers women’s tennis team recently finished the Gopher Invitational tournament.
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New head coach rebuilds Gopher women’s tennis
The Gophers women’s tennis team is 4-0 in the 2024 spring season under head coach Lois Arterberry, who is the first Black female head coach of any sport at the University of Minnesota in two decades.
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Gopher tennis coach rebuilds a competitive team
‘We literally every single day try to make this place one that the student athletes look forward to coming to every single day.’
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New U of M head tennis coach saw her chance and seized it
After two seasons guiding St. Thomas through its transition from Division III to Division I, last month Arterberry was named University of Minnesota head tennis coach.