Bob Dallis

Head Women's Tennis Coach, Dartmouth College

• 19th year at Dartmouth
• 2015 and 2017 ECAC Team Champions
• 2011 and 2017 Ivy League Champions
• 2011 ITA Northeast Region Coach of the Year
• 15th year USPTA Tennis Professional
• Head Tennis Professional, Winchester Country Club, 1998-2002
• 3-time America East Conference Coach of the Year, Boston Univ.
• 2002 Ed.D degree in Developmental Studies and Counseling, Boston University

Bob Dallis, Ed.D., completed his 18th year as head coach of the Dartmouth women's tennis team and his 32nd year as a Division I head coach in 2019-20 during a season shortened by COVID-19.

In November of 2020, Dallis' position was endowed. He is now the Marge & Ron Boss ‘61 Family Head Coach of Women's Tennis.

He led the Big Green to a Top-70 national ranking in six of the past seven seasons, including a program-best in 2010. It was Dartmouth's highest national ranking to date at No. 38. Additionally, the 2007-2008 squad's 16-4 record set a Dartmouth record for most wins in a single season. During a stellar spring, the Big Green defeated such teams as Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Boston College, Maryland, and the University of Central Florida, and had a match point to defeat Ivy League champion Yale.

In 12 years at the helm, Dallis has coached ten All-Ivy players honored 23 times, including Katherine Yau '16, who was All-Ivy second team in singles play. In 2011-12, Sarah Leonard '13 earned first team All-Ivy honors in singles. Leonard has been named first or second team All-Ivy in singles and in three of her four season with the team. Other past players that have received accolades include Molly Scott '11. Scott has been named first or second team All-Ivy in singles and doubles in all of her three seasons.Scott is one of only 12 players in the history of the Ivy League to be named first team in singles three times. Scott and Megan Zebroski '08 teamed up in 2008 and were named first team All-Ivy. The two were also honored in singles, and the tandem of Beth Winingham '10 and Jesse Adler '10 were named an All-Ivy doubles second team in 2008. In 2009-10, Sarah Leonard '13 was named second team All-Ivy and the ITA Northeast Rookie of the Year.

Off the court, the team has been named an Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team in each season that Dallis has coached. To be eligible for the award, a team must post a collective cumulative grade point average of at least 3.2. In the past two seasons, 15 members of the team have been singled out for ITA All-Academic accolades, an honor is reserved for players who earn a GPA of 3.5 or higher.

Prior to coming to Dartmouth, Dallis was the head men's and women's tennis coach at Colgate University from 1998-2002, and before that he was the head men's coach at Boston University from 1987-1998. Dallis led the Raider women to runner-up finishes in the Patriot League Conference in 2000 and 2001, and coached the Raider men to a No. 11 NCAA Northeast Regional ranking and a second place conference finish in 2002. The Colgate women's squad was also twice named an ITA All-Academic Team. At Boston University, Dallis coached the Terriers to the final of the conference tournament 10 straight years (winning it four times), and was voted America East Conference coach of the year three times.

A 1986 graduate of Boston University, Dallis was a four-year member of the Terrier tennis team. He was team captain and most valuable player from 1984-86. During his summer breaks from college, Dallis played the professional satellite circuits in the U.S. and Spain.

Dallis earned a doctoral degree in developmental studies and counseling, with a specialization in sport and exercise psychology, from Boston University's School of Education in May 2002. His doctoral dissertation was entitled, “The Design and Implementation of an Elite Training System for Tennis,” and details how to develop a world-class tennis player from childhood through the late teen years. An article (PDF) excerpted from his dissertation was a Tennis Week magazine cover story. Dallis is a United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) Level 1 professional, and has also completed two, week-long USTA Tennis High Performance Coaching programs.

A native of Queens, N.Y., Dallis is a graduate of New York City's renowned Stuyvesant High School. He is married to Bonnie Barber, a writer/editor and former USTA nationally-ranked junior player who was also a tennis standout at Boston University from 1982-1986. They have been married for 28 years and live in West Lebanon, N.H.