In January 2022 Aaron Wilf ‘02 was named the first full-time Head Men’s and Women’s Tennis Coach at Dickinson College.
Most recently Wilf spent 3 years as the Director of Tennis at Moravian University. Wilf had a very successful run there leading the women's program to a Landmark Conference Championship and the program's first-ever NCAA Division III Tournament victory in 2018-19. That year Wilf was selected as the Landmark Conference Women's Coach of the Year while seeing five players named to the All-Conference Teams. His women’s team finished with a school and conference record 20 wins and a .909 winning percentage. Overall he went 33-3 on the women’s side, finished the season undefeated in conference play twice, and coached numerous All-Conference players including the conference player of the year.
On the men's side in his debut season, Wilf led the Greyhounds to a 12-8 mark which quadrupled the win total from the previous year while putting an end to the program’s 3-year long conference losing streak with wins against Catholic and Elizabethtown. The 12 wins were the 2nd highest win total in more than a decade and they had one player named to the All-Conference Team. Overall Wilf went 19-16 with the men’s team at Moravian.
Together the tennis programs set a record for the most combined wins in a single season with 32 in 2018-2019. Wilf coached many players on both sides to the ITA scholar-athlete award and won the ITA team academic award as well. He left Moravian as the all-time winning percentage leader for both the men’s and women’s tennis teams. Wilf also served on the NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Regional Advisory Committee.
Before coming to Moravian Wilf was at Frostburg State University where he served as the school’s first full-time Head Men’s and Women’s tennis coach since the summer of 2016. In his first year with the Bobcats, Wilf helped the men's team double its win total from the previous year and led the women's squad to more than triple their win total from the 2015-16 campaign. The teams posted a combined 11 wins which is tied for the 2nd most since Frostburg entered the CAC, which is considered one of the toughest tennis conferences in all of Division III. The squads improved in every major statistical category and won 32 more individual matches than the previous year. By the 2nd year, his team earned unprecedented individual wins against multiple national powerhouses in the Capital Athletic Conference. He also led his squads to success off the court as well as both the men’s and women’s teams were recognized as winners of the ITA academic team award and 8 of his student-athletes in 2017-2018 earned ITA scholar-athlete status for the first time in school history.
Prior to Frostburg Wilf was responsible for guiding the La Roche College women's tennis program to a record-setting five-year run. A two-time Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year (2011-2012), Wilf was responsible for the three best seasons in terms of wins in the program's history. His team posted the AMCC's highest winning percentage, earned the highest team GPA at the school, broke over 20 school records, and collected the most wins in a season at that time. His Redhawks finished third in the AMCC regular-season and tournament standings in 2011, which were the best finishes in school history at the time and he collected his first AMCC Coach of the Year award. In 2012, La Roche rebounded from a slow start to the season to earn the program's first NCAA Tournament bid after winning the AMCC Tournament Championship. Wilf's Redhawks upset the league's top team and a seven-time champion en route to the league title. For his efforts, Wilf was selected as the AMCC Coach of the Year for the second-straight season after guiding the Redhawks to a program record 10 wins. He also served as a representative on the NCAA Regional Women's Tennis Committee. From 2013-15, Wilf's teams collected numerous All-AMCC honors and he brought in the three largest recruiting classes in program history.
In the spring of 2016, Wilf also served as the head tennis coach at Plum Senior High School in Plum, Pa., leading the team to 10 wins, tying the single-season record.
Prior to becoming the head coach at La Roche, Wilf was the head coach at Chatham University. He led the Cougars to their best finishes in program history in the Presidents Athletic Conference after his 2009 team finished in third place and the 2010 squad captured fourth. In '09, he was named the PAC Women's Tennis Coach of the Year, while in 2010 he guided the team to a school-record 10 wins. While at La Roche College and Chatham University, Wilf served as an adjunct professor in the Physical Education Department where he taught tennis courses and served as a faculty supervisor for various independent studies. He also worked for several years as the Study Hall Coordinator.
Before joining the collegiate ranks, Wilf spent three years as the Head Tennis Coach at Butler High School winning the section title in his first year. In two of the three seasons, his team's finished in the top 10 in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL), and he coached multiple players to individual section titles.
Since college, Wilf has also served as a professional tennis instructor, teaching at Lakevue Athletic Club for six years and at Oxford Athletic Club, in Wexford for two years. He is certified through the USPTR (United States Professional Tennis Registry).
Coach Wilf, originally from Pittsburgh, Pa., attended City League perennial tennis power Taylor Allderdice High School where his team won four-straight team City League Championships and he individually won two City Titles; he was named to the All-State Team his junior and senior seasons.
Coach Wilf also served as the Head Tennis coach for Team USA in the Maccabiah Olympics, which is a branch of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). These games are the third-largest sporting event in the world, containing 80 different countries and over 10,000 athletes. These Olympic Games are played in Israel every four years and Wilf led Team USA to four bronze medals in the mixed doubles and women’s doubles competition on the world stage in the summer of 2017. He currently has an Olympic coaching record of 45-33 (.577) in 78 matches.
Wilf graduated from Dickinson College where he played tennis for four years, winning the team MVP his junior season. In 2016 he earned his Master’s Degree in Sport Management from Lasell College.
