Bio

Clay Allen was named head coach of the Goucher College men's tennis program in November, 2021.

In his first two seasons as head coach of the Gophers, Allen has guided Goucher to back-to-back Landmark Conference title match appearances, including the program's fifth Landmark title in 2022.  The Gophers have had a total of 11 All-Conference selections, including five First Team honorees.  Goucher advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2022.

Before coming to Goucher, Allen was the head coach of the men’s and women’s tennis programs at McPherson College, an NAIA program in McPherson, Kansas.  In his lone full season he guided the men’s program to a 14-2 record, the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) championship and an NAIA tournament berth.  The women’s program finished 10-5 and reached the KCAC semifinals.

Allen spent three seasons (2017-2020) as an assistant coach at Centennial Conference program Washington College.  During his tenure in Chestertown, he coached Koby Bonta to the men’s Centennial Conference All-Conference team.  In 2018 the Shorewomen were regionally ranked and reached the Centennial semifinals, while that same season the Shoremen also qualified for the Centennial championship.

He began his coaching career as the head boys tennis coach at Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Virginia) from 2015-17.

Allen played four years of collegiate tennis at Colby-Sawyer College (New London, N.H.), graduating with the fifth-most singles wins in team history and playing for three NCAA Division III Tournament teams (2013, 2014, 2015). He was named his team's MVP as a senior and twice earned All-North Athletic Conference (NAC) honors in singles, landing on the first team in 2013 and the second team in 2012. He was also a member of Colby-Sawyer's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for three years.

Allen earned his Bachelor’s in Sports Communications with a focus in Media Studies from Colby-Sawyer in 2015.