Ramiro Azcui
Head Coach
Ramiro Azcui
Head Coach
Ramiro Azcui was named head coach of the Indiana women’s tennis team in 2017 after serving over 24 years as associate head coach of the program. Since arriving in Bloomington in 1992, Azcui has helped lead the Hoosiers to five Big Ten titles and 16 NCAA Tournament appearances
At Indiana, Azcui helped the Hoosiers compile a 400-237 overall record during his tenure as associate head coach and an impressive 165-92 mark in Big Ten play with players having earned All-America honors. He has been publicly acknowledged for his coaching, winning the Midwest Assistant Coach of the Year Award in 1997, 1999 and 2004 and was also awarded the ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2004.
Off the court, Azcui is instrumental in shaping a successful academic culture for the IU women’s tennis program. Azcui has helped the program maintain a 100 percent graduation rate for all students who exhaust their eligibility since his arrival. IU’s women’s tennis regularly wins the Herbert Cup, an award given to the IU Athletics program with the highest GPA each semester.
Prior to Indiana, Azcui served as head coach of both the men’s and women’s tennis teams at Truman State. While there, Azcui compiled a three-year record of 30-24 as the men’s coach and a record of 42-20 with the women’s program. A two-time conference Coach of the Year with both the men’s and women’s programs, Azcui took a program that was near the bottom of its conference and guided it to be among the league’s best.
Before Truman State, he served as the men’s assistant coach at Baylor for one year, and was also an assistant for the men’s and women’s programs at his alma mater, Abilene Christian University for one season. Both programs at Abilene were ranked among the nation’s top 10 and the women claimed third place at the NCAA Division-II nationals.
A successful tennis player himself, Azcui was a four-year letterman at Abilene Christian University. He was named to the All-Conference squad in both singles and doubles from 1984-1987. Azcui also helped lead the team to a pair of top 12 NCAA Division-II appearances. Azcui earned academic all-conference honors for three years in the Lone Star Conference and earned a place on the Dean’s List. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education in 1987 and a master’s in sports administration with an emphasis in teaching/coaching from Baylor in 1989.
As a professional athlete, Azcui was the second-best player in his native country, Bolivia, and represented his nation in the Orange Bowl, one of tennis’ premier international tournaments.
For the past several years, Azcui has served as the Midwest Circuit Director for the ITA Collegiate Summer Circuit. Bloomington has played host to a midwest regional event in late July as well as the pinnacle event, the ITA Summer National Championships, which Azcui has directed for nine years.
Azcui and his wife, Kathy, a former collegiate tennis player at Baylor University, have a daughter, Denise, and two sons, Sean and Blake.
