Matt Swigart is entering his 13th season as the Head Coach of the Men’s and Women’s Tennis teams at the University of Northwestern in 2025.
Coach Swigart has had success within the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference with both his Men’s and Women’s squads. He has led the women’s team to seven regular season and seven post season titles a piece. Swigart’s women’s team has been to the NCAA National Tournament five times (2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023). The men’s team also won a post season championship and appeared in the NCAA National Tournament in 2018. Between the men’s and women’s side, Coach Swigart has won UMAC Coach of the Year honors 10 times.
Swigart’s program has also had success on the National stage. Coach Swigart has sent three teams to the NCCAA National Tournament. UNW’s tennis programs have been very decorated from the NCCAA during Swigart’s tenure. Coach Swigart has led 17 NCCAA All-Americans, 4 NCCAA Gameplan 4 Life Character Award winners (Karen Moe 2018, Shawna Spears 2020, Matthew Wedin 2021, and Belinda Weddle 2022), and many NCCAA Scholar Teams/ITA All-Academic Teams.
Rounding out his successful resume at UNW, Coach Swigart coached Northwestern’s winningest athlete on both the men's and women's side. Karen Moe totaled an impressive 193 combined wins in her four-year career in an Eagle uniform, while Stewart Morrell tops the UNW men's chart with 144 combined wins.
Coach Swigart is the longest-tenured and winningest coach in program history. To date, Coach has 367 combined wins, 200 on the women’s side and 167 on the men’s side.
Swigart graduated from Northwestern with a degree in Christian Education and Youth Ministry in 2001. Coach was a youth pastor at a church in Woodbury for 12 years before God called him into more regional and national ministry focus coaching and caring for pastors, speaking and leading mission trips. Recently he shifted his ministry focus, same heart, to Enhance Ministries, a non-profit he launched in 2020. Also that year he launched the Soar Tennis Academy here in the Twin Cities partnering with many communities to run their kids tennis programming. Many current and former UNW Tennis players continue to coach with Soar in the summer!
Coach Swigart currently resides in Cottage Grove with his wife, Christina, and their three kids, Caitlyn, Caleb and Lucy.
