Matt Haugen, Ph.D. - Women's Tennis Coach - Brown University Athletics

Matt Haugen, Ph.D.

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
matthew_haugen@brown.edu
Joined Brown:
2021
Alma Mater:
Kenyon '06

Matt Haugen enters his second season on the Brown women’s tennis coaching staff in 2022-23.

Haugen comes to Brown with over 15 years of international and collegiate tennis coaching experience in both the United States and China. At Brown, as the assistant coach, Haugen will also assume the role of Director of Analytics and will integrate data driven insights into practice and competitions.

Most recently, Haugen completed his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he served as an Instructor of Kinesiology since 2015. His work is published in multiple journals including Coaching & Sport Science Review, International Review of Qualitative Research, and Education About Asia.

In 2017 as a Fulbright scholar at the Nanjing Sport Institute, Haugen conducted his dissertation research on sport development in China and examined how transnationalism has impacted the concept of a student-athlete in the country. Since 2017, he has also served as a tennis leadership consultant for the Jiangsu Province Sports Bureau.

Haugen began his coaching career as a traveling tennis coach with the Zhongshan City Sports Bureau in China in 2008 before coaching in the U.S. as an assistant at Denison University and a graduate assistant at Boise State.

Haugen returned to China in 2011 to serve as the head men’s and women’s tennis coach at the Hebei Province Sports Bureau. While in China, he coached and developed multiple ATP, WTA and ITF ranked Chinese athletes, while mastering the Mandarin language.

After returning to the U.S., Haugen was named the interim head women’s tennis coach at Trinity University in San Antonio for the 2013-14 season.

Haugen graduated from Kenyon College in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He later earned a Master of Arts in Educational Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in physical education from Boise State in 2012, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in sports and cultural studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2021.