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11 OCT 2021: The Denver Pioneers men’s and women’s tennis teams at Denver Tennis Park in Denver, CO. (C. Morgan Engel/Clarkson Creative Photography)

Mitch Stewart

  • Title
    Assistant Coach
Mitch Stewart returned to the Denver coaching staff during the 2023-24 season after initially beginning his Denver tenure for 2021-22. In between his stints with Denver, Stewart spent one season as an assistant coach at his alma mater, the University of Washington, in 2022-23.

2023-24 (DENVER): Stewart helped lead Denver to a perfect 23-0 record entering the NCAA tournament, becoming the first Division I men's team to be undefeated heading into NCAAs since Virginia in 2013. Along the way, DU won its sixth Summit League title on its way to its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2021. Denver achieved a season-high national ranking of No. 28 in February, the program's highest ranking since 2010, and finished the year ranked No. 44 in the country and No. 1 in the mountain region.

2022-23 (WASHINGTON): Stewart helped coach Washington to a 12-11 record and a No. 45 final ITA national rankings. Three Huskies earned All-Pac-12 Team honors, and Cesar Bouchelaghem finished the year ranked No. 82 nationally in singles.

2021-22 (DENVER): Stewart helped the Pioneers to a 15-7 record, including a 5-0 mark in Summit League play, lifting the program's third-straight Summit League crown, its seventh Summit League championship and the program's eighth Division I conference title overall. 

Prior to Denver:
Stewart spent the 2020-21 season as the volunteer assistant at the University of Arizona. In his season with the Wildcats, Arizona finished 21-8 and reached the NCAA Round of 16, losing a heart-breaking 4-3 match against the No. 3 seed Tennessee in Orlando.
 
Prior to the start of his coaching experience, Stewart was a four-year letter winner at the University of Washington, where he was a three-time All-Pac 12 selection and was ranked as high as 57th in the country. In 2018, Stewart received the ITA Northwest Region Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award.
 
Stewart finished his collegiate career 57-36 in singles matches and won 25 doubles matches.