Jordan Szabo

Jordan Szabo

PositionHead Coach
Twitter@j_szabo
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Jordan Szabo will begin his second season at Auburn in 2025-26. He was named the head coach in May of 2024. 

In his first season on the Plains in 2025, Szabo made program history with the Tigers. The 2025 squad tied the program record for most wins in a season with 25, reached the NCAA Super Regional round for the fifth time in program history, earned the highest NCAA Championship seed in program history at No. 9 and tied the best national ranking in program history at No. 4 on Feb. 20. The Tigers defeated five teams ranked inside the ITA top 10 tduring the campaign: No. 3 Oklahoma State, No. 4 Stanford, No. 8 North Carolina, No. 9 Texas and No. 6 Tennessee. Auburn was selected as a host site for NCAA Opening Rounds and won the regional to finish the season in the Sweet 16. 

After the season, DJ Bennett recieved first team All-SEC honors, Angella Okutoyi recieved second team All-SEC honors and Merna Refaat was named to the SEC All-Freshman team. In the fall of 2024, Bennett, Refaat and Ava Hrastar each earned ITA All-American honors during the NCAA Singles & Doubles Championship. Bennett became the second Tiger to reach the NCAA Singles Championship finals while she and Hrastar became the second Auburn duo to reach the NCAA Doubles Championship semifinals. 

Coach Szabo
Hometown Bayswater, Australia
Alma Mater Texas A&M
Family  wife, Grace
Quick Facts
Head Coaching Career 2nd season in '25-26
Overall Record at Auburn 25-7
SEC Record at Auburn 11-4
Coaching History
2024-Present Auburn - Head Coach
2017-2024 Texas A&M - Assistant Coach
2016-2017 Texas Tech (M) - Assistant Coach
2015-2016 Texas A&M (M) - Assistant Coach
Szabo spent the previous seven seasons with the women's tennis program at his alma mater, Texas A&M. Szabo helped the Aggie women to three consecutive Southeastern Conference titles, four straight conference tournament final appearances and a national championship in 2024. Over his seven seasons in College Station, Texas A&M posted a 166-43 dual match record. Szabo also played a key role in the development of A&M All-Americans Mary Stoiana, Mia Kupres, Tatiana Makarova, Jayci Goldsmith and Carson Branstine. Stoiana recieved four All-American distinctions under Szabo during her time with the Aggies.  

In 2024, Szabo helped bring Texas A&M its first national championship after posting a 28-7 overall record en route to sharing the SEC regular season title and hosting NCAA opening rounds for the third consecutive season. The Aggies' Mary Stoiana was named SEC Player of the Year, NCAA Championship MVP, Honda Award winner and the first player in program history to win the ITA All-American Championship. Lucciana Perez was also named SEC Freshman of the Year in 2024. 
 
An exceptional recruiting coordinator under Weaver, Szabo played a key role in signing three top-three recruiting classes in each of A&M's last three cycles. The Aggies landed the No. 2 group in 2018 followed by yet another No. 2 class in 2021 according to the Tennis Recruiting Network spring rankings. The Aggies' signing class in 2022 took home the No. 3 ranking according to TRN and featured a pair of athletes with Universal Tennis Ratings above 10.40. He is responsible for signing seven blue-chip prospects, also adding five-star American players and impressive international talent.
 
Szabo was named the ITA Texas Region Assistant Coach of the Year and an ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year finalist in 2019. Following a program-record 33-2 campaign in 2022, Szabo was named the ITA Texas Region Assistant Coach of the Year for the second time in his career, eventually taking home the ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year award later in the offseason. In 2023, after another undefeated SEC regular season run, Szabo earned back-to-back ITA Texas Region Assistant Coach of the Year and ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year honors. 

Prior to his time with the Texas A&M women's program, Szabo was an assistant coach with the Texas Tech men's tennis program for the 2016-17 season. He helped direct the Red Raiders to the 2017 Big 12 Tournament championship match as Texas Tech knocked off both No. 6 Baylor and No. 8 Oklahoma State before falling to No. 4 TCU. Szabo helped guide Jolan Callieau to All-America honors after reaching the NCAA Individual Championship Singles Round of 16, becoming only the fourth Red Raider to earn All-America status. The Red Raiders' doubles team of Bjorn Thomson and Connor Curry competed in the NCAA Doubles Championship and was No. 18 in the final doubles' rankings under Szabo's tutelage.

Szabo began his coaching career as a student assistant with the Texas A&M men's program during the 2015-16 season. That season, Texas A&M picked up 27 wins before dropping a 4-3 decision to Texas in the NCAA Tournament Second Round. He has worked alongside multiple Aggie men's tennis legends, including Austin Krajicek, who won the 2023 French Open Doubles Championship after making it to the finals a year earlier.  Krajicek has been ranked by the ATP as high as world No. 1 which was first achieved in 2023.

While a student-athlete at Texas A&M, Szabo was a part of 82 dual match victories from 2012-15. The Aggies secured four NCAA Tournament trips during his career, highlighted by an NCAA Elite Eight appearance in 2015 and a NCAA Sweet 16 berth in 2013. A&M also captured the 2015 Southeastern Conference regular season championship in addition to the 2014 and 2015 SEC Tournament titles and 2013 SEC Western Division crown. 

Szabo picked up 73 career doubles victories fueled by a trio of 20-win seasons and highlighted by a final No. 56 doubles ranking in 2015, qualifying for the NCAA Doubles championships in the process. Szabo tallied 56 singles wins for the Aggies over the course of his collegiate tenure, earning 2014 SEC All-Tournament Team honors. 

A native of Bayswater, Victoria, Australia, Szabo's tennis career began at an early age, at local tennis courts located behind his home. His love for the game blossomed and he eventually began training with the national tennis academy through the Tennis Australia Federation. Szabo advanced to the Round of 16 in the Australian Open Juniors and finished his youth career rated as one of the top-five players in Australia. 

A 2016 graduate of Texas A&M with a degree in sports management, Szabo is married to Grace Wright, a former member of the Texas A&M soccer team.