Charlie Gallagher is enters her second season volunteer assistant men's and women's tennis coach at Longwood in 2025-26.
In their first season with the Lancers, Gallagher and Director of Tennis Charlotte Clarke helped the Longwood men's team to a 7-11 overall record, including going a 1-2 in the Big South. The Lancers advanced to the league semifinals, falling to UNC Asheville. Gallagher assisted in leading graduate student Mauricio Gonzalez Paiva to Co-Big South Newcomer of the Year honors, marking the first time in Longwood men's and women's tennis history a student-athlete earned a major Big South year-end award.
Under Gallagher and Clarke's tutelage, four men's players were named to all-Big South -- Gonzalez Paiva (first-team doubles and second-team singles), junior Timéo Puech (first-team singles and doubles) classmate Alejandro Uribe and freshman Marko Mrdak (first-team doubles).
Longwood finished the season ranked 10th in the in the ITA Atlantic Region.
On the women's side, the Lancers were 7-12 overall. Longwood enjoyed a three-match winning streak and were victors in five of seven dual matches from Feb. 8 at Campbell to March 4 against Norfolk State. The win at the Camels was the first against the former Big South foe since at least 2007.Â
Two doubles pairs -- Karina Rizvanova and Elizaveta Gnilozubova (first team) and Alexandra Magia and Feline van Eijkelenburg (second team) -- earned al-Big South honors.
Gallagher helped three different men's players earn four Big South weekly honors on the season, while Magia was named Big South Freshman of the Week three times for the women's team
Prior to coming to Longwood, Gallagher was a tennis professional for the City of Raleigh, N.C.
Originally from Atglen, Pa., Gallagher played five seasons of NCAA Division II tennis from 2016-21 at PennWest California, captaining the Vulcans for three.
During her time at the former CalU, she was the vice president of the student-athlete advisory committee, graduated magna cum laude, and was a dean's list recipient each semester.
Gallagher also spent six years as a tennis coach and assistant manager at Kennett Square (Pa.) Golf and Country Club.
She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology and master's in sport management, both from CalU.
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