Alex Santos

Baylor

Title

Associate Head Coach

Alex Santos joined the Baylor women’s tennis staff as associate head coach in August of 2019 and comes to Waco after spending the previous six seasons as the head coach at Pitt, with a previous four-year tenure as an assistant at the University of Miami.

Santos, a native of Portugal, became involved in US Collegiate tennis in 2009-10 when he came to Miami to serve as a volunteer assistant. He was elevated to graduate manager in the fall of 2010 before being elevated to assistant coach in January 2011.

From there, Santos helped the Hurricanes to four consecutive Elite 8 appearances, and Miami compiled an 85-24 record during his tenure. In 2013 he was recognized by his peers as the ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year.

After his tenure at Miami, Santos took over a struggling Pitt program. He stayed six years accomplishing several firsts in the program's history before, in the spring of 2019, the athletic department decided to end the program. At Pitt, Santos coached the first players in Pitt history to be ranked in singles and doubles nationally by the ITA, defeated a ranked opponent for the first time in 2016 and earned its first ever win in the ACC in 2016.

Focused on academics as well as on the court, Santos helped Pitt teams to perfect Academic Progress Rate scores of 1,000 four-straight years.

Santos is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish and is a worldwide recruiting expert signing players to NLIs from Japan, Brazil, Spain, Cyprus, Latvia, Israel, Venezuela, Argentina, China, Czech Republic and the USA.

Prior to Miami and Pitt, Santos was a coach at the prestigious Sanchez-Casal Tennis Academy in Barcelona Spain from 2005-2006, and he also had stops as a coach at Clube do Lago (2007), Vale de Lobo Tennis Academy (2001-03, 2007), and Club de Tenis de Tavira (2000-07).

Hailing from Oeiras, Portugal, Santos earned his undergraduate degree in sports science from Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa in 2005. He was one of the top-ranked juniors as a player in Portugal.

Santos has two children, a son, Vasco, and a daughter, Maria Isabel.