| Roland Thornqvist | |||||||||||||
| Current Title: | Head coach | ||||||||||||
| Current Team: | University of Florida | ||||||||||||
| Current Conference: | Southeastern Conference | ||||||||||||
| Current Record: | 470 - 89 | ||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | March 3, 1970 | ||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||
| Player Years1: | 1993 - 1996 | ||||||||||||
| Player Team1: | University of North Carolina | ||||||||||||
| Coach Years1: | 2002 - current | ||||||||||||
| Coach Team1: | University of Florida | ||||||||||||
| Coach Years2: | 1999 - 2001 | ||||||||||||
| Coach Team2: | University of North Carolina | ||||||||||||
| Coach Years3: | 1997 - 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Coach Team3: | University of Kansas | ||||||||||||
| Overall Record: | 545 - 139 | ||||||||||||
| Championships: | NCAA (2003, 2011, 2012, 2017) Southeastern Conference (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016) Southeastern Conference Tournament (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016) | ||||||||||||
| Awards: | SEC Coach of the Year (2004, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2016) ITA National Coach of the Year (2011) | ||||||||||||
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Roland Thornqvist (born March 3, 1970) is a Swedish-born American college tennis coach and former college tennis player. Thornqvist is the current head coach of the Florida Gators women's tennis team of the University of Florida. He is best known for leading the Florida Gators to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I national championships in 2003, 2011, 2012, and 2017.
Thornqvist was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1970.
Thornqvist attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he played for the North Carolina Tar Heels men's tennis team from 1990 to 1993. He was recognized as a three-time first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) selection in 1991, 1992 and 1993, and a first-team All-American in 1993. Thornqvist graduated from North Carolina with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1996.
Thornqvist was the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks women's tennis team at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas in 1997 and 1998. From 1999 to 2001, he was the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels women's tennis team at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina.
In 2002, Thornqvist became the head coach of the Florida Gators women's tennis program at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Since then, Thornqvist has been one of the top college tennis coaches in the country. His teams have qualified for the NCAA Tournament every year since he has been the head coach of the Gators. In 2003, 2011, 2012 and 2017, the Gators women's tennis team won the NCAA Division I National Championship.[1] Thornqvist's Gators have also finished second in the NCAA tournament in 2002 and 2010.[1]
The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) named Thornqvist as its national Coach of the Year in 2011.[2]