Susquehanna University Athletics

Bob Jordan ’71 completed his 30th year with Susquehanna University Tennis, starting with the women in 1994. In 2007 he took over the men's tennis team, leading both programs over all but two of the last 17 seasons.

In his first 13 seasons with the women the team netted 69 wins, mentoring a pair of MAC Players of the Year in Tara McHugh (2002) and Danielle Dormer (2005), with McHugh also being crowned MAC singles champion in 2002. This era highlighted a four-year stretch where Susquehanna won 32 matches amidst a formidable MAC schedule, finishing second in the MAC Commonwealth in 2001-02 with an 8-3 record and 6-1 league mark, followed by the first ten-win season in program history the next year with a 10-2 record and 5-2 in the Commonwealth in 2002-03. This success carried over when Susquehanna made the move to the Landmark Conference in 2007, where Jordan and his staff earned Women's Coaching Staff of the Year in 2011-12 after SU set a program record with ten wins in a season and picking up the regular season conference championship. The team had three First Team All-Landmark recipients in Julia Lerner, Shelby O'Riley, and Abigail Hess. The next year Susquehanna set another program record for consecutive wins after starting the season 10-0, with Hess and O'Riley again earning All-Landmark praise.

Jordan added men's coaching duties for the 2007-08 season, taking over a team that had not won more than four matches in a season since 1999. By his third year the team doubled that with the first of back-to-back eight-win seasons in 2009-10 and 2010-11. Between 2017 and 2019 Jordan coached just the men, combining for 23 wins in that span. The 2017-18 team reached the Landmark Conference Tournament after going 10-6 with a 4-3 league mark, which earned Jordan and company Men's Coaching Staff of the Year. The next season the River Hawks set a program record with 13 wins, going 13-5 and 4-3 again in the Landmark. The team tacked on another ten-win season in 2021-22 with a 10-5 mark and 5-2 in conference play, capped by Emil Vyskocil earning First Team All-Landmark in singles for the second straight year. In 2024 Jordan earned his 100th career win with the men as Susquehanna defeated Elizabethtwon 6-3 on Mar. 24.

Jordan, also known as "Rip", is a former captain and No. 1 singles player for Susquehanna University tennis. A resident of Selinsgrove, Jordan also served as the boys' tennis coach at Selinsgrove High School and as an instructor at Susquehanna Valley Country Club.