Coach Stuckey, the 2015 ITA Central Region Coach of the year and KCAC Men's Coach of the year, came to McPherson College in 2014 as head men's and women's tennis coach. Stuckey is certified by the USPTA and PTR.
The 2014-2015 season was a great season in which he guided the men's and women's tennis teams to conference championships. The 2015 women's team won the KCAC regular season championship by going undefeated in conference throughout the season and also won the tournament championship. The women were ranked as high as #25 nationally in the NAIA.
The 2015 men's tennis team finished second in the regular season and won the conference tournament championship for the first time in school history; they also won there first round match and advanced to the second round of the 2015 NAIA National Men's Tennis Tournament before losing to the number one team and eventual champions. The men finished with their highest ever national ranking of #16 in the NAIA. Coach Stuckey's players have earned the highest honors the ITA has to offer - player to watch, senior player of the year, and most improved player . Coach Stuckey Is also currently the Chair of the ITA Central Region ranking committee.
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Stuckey joined the Bulldog family after being Wittenberg University’s first-ever full-time men's and women's tennis coach, a position he took in 2008. While at Wittenberg Both teams were consistently ranked in the region, Stuckey guided the men’s squad to an 85-53 record, and posted a winning season each year in the difficult North Coast Athletic Conference as well as tied the school record for wins in a season with 17 in 2011-2012. The women’s team went 70-55 and established a school record with 19 wins in 2010-11. Stuckey coached 23 All-NCAC athletes during his tenure at WU.
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Prior to Wittenberg, Stuckey served as a graduate assistant for Division 1 Wright State University tennis teams during the 2007-08 school year. He graduated from Wright State with a master's in education in 2008.
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A 2007 graduate of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C., Stuckey was a team captain for his final three years and voted team MVP in 2006 and 2007; he holds a career record of 61-5 in doubles and 55-11 in singles. Stuckey was crowned conference doubles champion twice and singles once; he was runner-up the other years in both doubles and singles. Stuckey helped the Golden Bulls to four-straight conference championships and in 2004, was a member of the team that made it to the NCAA Division-II tournament where he played both singles and doubles.
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In 2001, he held the No. 1 national ranking in the American Tennis Association for 16-and-under athletes.
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Stuckey comes from a tennis family where he and his brothers all played college tennis on scholarship.
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He resides in Newton with his wife Jessica.