Women's Tennis
Hollander, Taylor
Taylor Hollander
- Title:
- Head Coach, Women's Tennis
Taylor Hollander opens her third season as Head Women’s Tennis Coach at the Air Force Academy in 2025-26. Hollander was named the program’s 10th head coach on June 21, 2023.
Hollander, inviting of the challenge of ushering in Air Force’s first-ever Mountain West Championship title, is further tasked with cultivating leaders of character and future warfighters through sport – A key component of cadet development at the Academy.
Nothing good ever comes easy: After a rocky start in 2024 that saw the Falcons win just a single match in her first dual season, Hollander found herself facilitating Air Force’s largest single-season turnaround in the program’s history, as her 2025 Falcons finished at 12-14 on the year. Air Force combined for a 41-22 record in doubles competition, closing out the season on a nine-match win streak as a team in doubles play. Riding a wave of momentum in the late stages of the season, the Falcons won two of their final three regular season matches and scored a pair of wins in the Mountain West Championship, shutting out New Mexico and earning a 4-1 victory over two-seed Nevada, logging the program’s highest-seeded postseason win since 2017. Hollander’s Falcons closed the year with a ninth-place finish in the ITA Mountain Region.
Prior to her arrival at the Academy, Hollander most recently served a two-year stretch as an assistant coach at Colorado State under current head coach Mai-Ly Tran. In 2021-22, Hollander and the CSU coaching staff were credited for crafting the Rams' most successful season to date, as CSU closed the year with a 15-8 record which included an 8-2 mark against the Mountain West. Eight conference wins in 2021-22 matched combined win totals against Mountain West opponents for CSU across the previous eight seasons.
Prior to her time at CSU, Hollander served a four-year stint as an assistant at Sacramento State, where during her tenure the Hornets amassed a 22-11 mark against Big Sky opponents. While at Sacramento State, Hollander was directly involved in all aspects of the Hornets' development and operations.
Hollander's coaching career began at Queens University in 2015-16, where she served as assistant coach for both men's and women's programs and briefly stepped in as interim head coach during that stretch. During her brief stint at Queens, both men's (15-4, 9-2) and women's (14-4, 8-1) teams went on to win their respective South Atlantic Conference titles and advance to the NCAA Tournament, representing the Royals' first tournament appearance for the men's team in six seasons, and the first in program history for the women.
Prior to coaching, Hollander built her knowledge of the game studying under names such as Audra Cohen, Bill Clark and Keith Axelrod. Cohen, the current head coach at Oklahoma, led the program at North Florida during Hollander's playing career. While at UNF, Cohen was a three-time Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year and led the program to four regular-season and tournament titles in a dominant five-year stretch; Clark is the founder of the Bill Clark Tennis Academy in Hollywood, Fla., a program credited with developing numerous players into college-ready athletes at top-level institutions across the nation; Axelrod is the current Director of Tennis at Lago Mar Country Club in Fort Lauderdale, developing some of the top juniors in the State of Florida and worked previously with Team USA.
Hollander earned her degree in child psychology at North Florida in 2015 while playing for the Ospreys under Cohen. She played four seasons collegiately, starting at SUNY Binghamton, where as a freshman she posted an upset of the then-standing Ivy League Player of the Year. She played her final three years at UNF, earning All-Atlantic Sun honors four times playing on the top doubles and singles courts. She earned second-team honors in doubles all three seasons and was a second-team selection in singles as a junior. A team captain in 2015, she was a three-time Scholar Athlete who won 47 career singles matches, making two NCAA Tournament appearances along the way.
In her final year at North Florida, Hollander was a two-sport athlete, throwing javelin and placing in the Atlantic Sun Conference track and field championships.
Hollander, inviting of the challenge of ushering in Air Force’s first-ever Mountain West Championship title, is further tasked with cultivating leaders of character and future warfighters through sport – A key component of cadet development at the Academy.
Nothing good ever comes easy: After a rocky start in 2024 that saw the Falcons win just a single match in her first dual season, Hollander found herself facilitating Air Force’s largest single-season turnaround in the program’s history, as her 2025 Falcons finished at 12-14 on the year. Air Force combined for a 41-22 record in doubles competition, closing out the season on a nine-match win streak as a team in doubles play. Riding a wave of momentum in the late stages of the season, the Falcons won two of their final three regular season matches and scored a pair of wins in the Mountain West Championship, shutting out New Mexico and earning a 4-1 victory over two-seed Nevada, logging the program’s highest-seeded postseason win since 2017. Hollander’s Falcons closed the year with a ninth-place finish in the ITA Mountain Region.
Prior to her arrival at the Academy, Hollander most recently served a two-year stretch as an assistant coach at Colorado State under current head coach Mai-Ly Tran. In 2021-22, Hollander and the CSU coaching staff were credited for crafting the Rams' most successful season to date, as CSU closed the year with a 15-8 record which included an 8-2 mark against the Mountain West. Eight conference wins in 2021-22 matched combined win totals against Mountain West opponents for CSU across the previous eight seasons.
Prior to her time at CSU, Hollander served a four-year stint as an assistant at Sacramento State, where during her tenure the Hornets amassed a 22-11 mark against Big Sky opponents. While at Sacramento State, Hollander was directly involved in all aspects of the Hornets' development and operations.
Hollander's coaching career began at Queens University in 2015-16, where she served as assistant coach for both men's and women's programs and briefly stepped in as interim head coach during that stretch. During her brief stint at Queens, both men's (15-4, 9-2) and women's (14-4, 8-1) teams went on to win their respective South Atlantic Conference titles and advance to the NCAA Tournament, representing the Royals' first tournament appearance for the men's team in six seasons, and the first in program history for the women.
Prior to coaching, Hollander built her knowledge of the game studying under names such as Audra Cohen, Bill Clark and Keith Axelrod. Cohen, the current head coach at Oklahoma, led the program at North Florida during Hollander's playing career. While at UNF, Cohen was a three-time Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year and led the program to four regular-season and tournament titles in a dominant five-year stretch; Clark is the founder of the Bill Clark Tennis Academy in Hollywood, Fla., a program credited with developing numerous players into college-ready athletes at top-level institutions across the nation; Axelrod is the current Director of Tennis at Lago Mar Country Club in Fort Lauderdale, developing some of the top juniors in the State of Florida and worked previously with Team USA.
Hollander earned her degree in child psychology at North Florida in 2015 while playing for the Ospreys under Cohen. She played four seasons collegiately, starting at SUNY Binghamton, where as a freshman she posted an upset of the then-standing Ivy League Player of the Year. She played her final three years at UNF, earning All-Atlantic Sun honors four times playing on the top doubles and singles courts. She earned second-team honors in doubles all three seasons and was a second-team selection in singles as a junior. A team captain in 2015, she was a three-time Scholar Athlete who won 47 career singles matches, making two NCAA Tournament appearances along the way.
In her final year at North Florida, Hollander was a two-sport athlete, throwing javelin and placing in the Atlantic Sun Conference track and field championships.
Taylor Hollander Interview - April 29th, 2025
Tuesday, April 29
Women's Tennis Senior Day
Monday, April 28
Women's Tennis Senior Day
Monday, April 28
Taylor Hollander MW Conference Interview - April 24th, 2025
Thursday, April 24
