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Owen Hambrook
Head Coach

2007 ITA Mountain Region Head Coach of the Year

The man who brought UNLV men's tennis program its first-ever Mountain West Conference championship -- Owen Hambrook -- is back for his sixth season, which ties for the third-longest tenure in Rebel history.

The 2007 ITA Mountain Region Coach of the Year stands second all-time in winning percentage at the school with a .561 clip after becoming the first coach in program history to finish at least four wins over .500 in each of his first three seasons. Also, last year's 10 victories made Hambrook only the second UNLV coach to reach double figures in victories in his first five years at the helm.

The 2007 team title was not only the first league crown since the Rebels were part of the Big West Conference in 1996, it took a program with a proud history back to the NCAA Championships as a team for the first time this decade.

Add the facts that Elliot Wronski earned a spot in the NCAA singles event and that Hambrook's squad turned in the highest combined GPA of any Rebel sport and it is clear that the end of the 2007 season was full of thrills for Hambrook and the Scarlet & Gray.

Named the sixth head coach in Rebel history but the first new leader since 1992, Hambrook moved over to the men's side in 2003 after serving as the top assistant for Kevin Cory and the UNLV women's team.

After leading the men's team to a 10-win improvement in his first season overseeing the program as an interim coach, Hambrook was rewarded for his efforts by getting the job permanently, the athletic department announced on June 4, 2004. That decision paid off immediately for the school as the 2005 Rebels posted the most victories (16) since 1997, finished 10-1 at home, downed a top-10 team for the first time in school history and returned to the ITA top 40 for the first time since 2001. The list of accomplishments also included the school's first Mountain West Conference Player of the Year and ITA Regional Senior Player of the Year in NCAA singles qualifier Henner Nehles. The 2006 squad won 13 times and continued to successfully defend its home courts with a 9-1 mark at the Fertitta Tennis Complex. In fact, the UNLV men boast a shiny 34-8 home record under Hambrook.

All of this success was not the norm at the beginning of the decade as Hambrook took over a squad that had set a school record for futility in 2003 with a 2-14 record. However, he quickly pushed the team back into the national rankings for the first time in two years and UNLV's 12-7 overall mark in 2004 included a second-place regular-season finish in the MWC and the best home record (9-2) since 1997. The season also produced a qualifier for the NCAA Singles Championship.

Prior to taking over the men's squad, Hambrook spent four years as an assistant with Lady Rebel tennis, including serving on the staff of the 2003 MWC regular-season champions, and the 2000 and 2002 league tournament champion women's teams. In 2002, Hambrook was recognized for his work when he was named ITA West Region Assistant Coach of the Year, only the second such honor in school history.

Hambrook joined UNLV after having served as director of the state's largest junior program -- the Junior Tennis Academy at the Sports Club of Las Vegas from 1996-2000. Previously, the certified tennis professional worked as the tennis pro at the MGM Grand Hotel for two years.

Before moving to the Silver State, he served as pro at the Barrybrooke Tennis Club in Kansas City, MO, and then was director of the Heartland Tennis Camp at Missouri Western State College from 1993-95. Active in the USTA, he has been head coach for the Southern Nevada USTA Training Center and was honored as a USTA High Performance Coach in both 1998 and 2000.

A 1991 graduate of Northwest Missouri State, Hambrook was a three-year member of the Bearcats' tennis team. He and his wife Julie, have a son, Jack (8) and a daughter, Hannah (6).

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Beck Roghaar
Assistant Coach

Beck Roghaar joined UNLV tennis in 2007 as assistant coach and promptly helped the men's team win its first-ever Mountain West Conference tournament championship.

"We're very fortunate to have someone of Beck's character and enthusiasm as our assistant," head coach Owen Hambrook said. "The energy he brings to the program every day is unbelievable."

A native of Utah, Roghaar was a member of a WAC Championship team at regional rival Boise State. A three-time team captain for the top-30 ranked Broncos, he turned in a sparkling 18-6 record in dual matches in his final semester in 2005. Compiling an all-time 52-35 mark at BSU, his 24-10 overall senior mark came after recovering from a knee injury that sidelined him during much of the previous two seasons. The four-time Academic All-WAC honoree also received the Mountain Region Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsman Award.

Ranked in the nation's Top 100 in junior singles 18-and-under, he was a Utah state high school champion and four-time regional junior champion, rising as high as No. 1 in the Intermountain Section and twice competing at the Junior Davis Cup, Kalamazoo Hard Court and Clay Court Nationals. Roghaar, who served as president of BSU Student Athlete Advisory Committee, earned his bachelor's degree in marketing in 2005 and is currently pursuing his MBA at UNLV.

Prior to moving to Las Vegas, he served as Director of Tennis at the UCSB Family Vacation Center and a teaching professional at Knollwood Country Club in Santa Barbara, Calif.