Kim Bruno

Kim Bruno

Title: Director of Tennis
Phone: 928-523-7465
Email: Kimberly.Bruno@nau.edu
Year: 8th
College: Northern Arizona '00

Kim Bruno enters her fifth season as director of tennis and eighth overall at NAU as the head women's tennis coach. As director of tennis, Bruno oversees both programs and is in her fourth year as the head men's tennis coach.

In 2012, Bruno guided the women's team to their seventh consecutive Big Sky Championship appearance despite a lineup that featured four new starters, including two freshmen. The women's team also posted their seventh consecutive double-digit win season, finishing 10-13 overall and 7-1 in the conference. The Lumberjack women, who dropped a tight 4-2 match to Montana in the Big Sky Championship semifinal, placed four players, three of whom were honored for the first time of their careers, on the All-Conference teams. Bruno also assisted with the growth of Dominic Bermudez, who posted a career-year on the men's team in his second season at NAU. Bermudez, a 2011 All-Big Sky second team selection, led the Lumberjack men through a 6-16 season and a 2-6 conference record.

During the 2011 season, Bruno led both of the NAU tennis programs to the finals of the Big Sky Championship for the second straight season. The women's team finished the season with a 13-11 overall record and a 7-1 conference record. To reach its sixth consecutive Big Sky final, the Lumberjack women outlasted Montana in the semifinal round, 4-3 in a match that lasted over five hours. For the second straight season, the women's team placed a school record-tying five players on the All-Big Sky team including Edit Suhajda, who became the second player in program history to earn four All-Big Sky first team selections. The men's team went 9-12 overall and 6-2 in the conference in 2011. The Lumberjack men had three All-Big Sky selections for the second straight year with Hugo Ramadier, David Flodberg and Robin Pezzutto earning all-conference honors.

In 2010, both NAU tennis programs reached the finals of the Big Sky Championship. The Lumberjack women went 13-7 overall, losing just one regular season Big Sky match and placing a school record-tying five players on the All-Big Sky team. NAU's men's tennis team went 13-9 in 2010 and recorded their most wins since 2000, including a 6-1 victory over Sacramento State that ended the Hornet's 24-match conference winning streak. Andrew Reiff, Hugo Ramadier, and David Flodberg represented the Lumberjack's on the All-Big Sky team.

In 2009, the NAU women's team returned to the Big Sky Championship match but fell one win short of the NCAA Tournament for the fourth-consecutive year. The women finished the season 13-10 overall and 6-2 in conference play, placing third in the Big Sky regular season standings. The NAU men went 7-18 in 2009 but were 5-3 in the Big Sky, advancing to the conference tournament quarterfinals in Bruno's first season as head of the men's squad.

In the past six years, Bruno has amassed an overall record of 76-56 with a 37-8 mark in conference play with the women's team. In 2008, she led the women to their best finish since the 2002 season, compiling 15 wins with eight losses and a second-place finish in conference.

After four standout years as a student-athlete for the Lumberjacks, Bruno returned to her alma mater in 2005 and has since led NAU to a third-place finish in the regular-season standings in 2006 and runner-up finishes in the conference in 2007 and 2008. Prior to Bruno arriving in Flagstaff, the Lumberjacks had finished below .500 three years in a row.

In her first season, Bruno guided NAU to a 10-10 overall record and a 4-2 mark in league play. In her second year, Bruno coached the Lumberjack women to a 12-10 overall record finishing 6-1 in conference play and the women advanced to the conference tournament championship final for the first time since 2004. The 12-win season was another improvement with Bruno increasing the Lumberjack win total in each of her first three seasons. She totaled 10 overall wins in 2006, 12 in 2007 and 15 in 2008.

Under Bruno's tutelage, a number of Lumberjacks have received individual accolades to go along with the team's accomplishments. In all, Bruno has 34 All-Big Sky selections, with three coming in her inaugural year of 2006. In that first season, Bruno was named the Big Sky Conference Women's Tennis Coach of the Year.

Bruno has also directed the tennis teams to success on and off the court. In the last six years, 39 women's players have earned the Golden Eagle Scholar-Athlete Award for academic excellence, while 13 men's players have earned the honor in her three years as Director of Tennis. 11 women's players and one men's player have also been selected Big Sky All-Academic.

Bruno is no stranger to NAU having been a standout tennis player for the Lumberjacks from 1996-2000. She helped lead the Lumberjacks to their first Big Sky Conference tournament title as a freshman, and then twice more as a sophomore and junior, marking the only three consecutive conference titles for the team in the history of the program.

Bruno also led the team to the program's only NCAA Tournament appearance in 1999. In 2009, the 1999 women's tennis team was inducted into the NAU Hall of Fame.

In her senior year, the Lumberjacks were defeated in the Big Sky Championship finals, making Bruno and her fellow seniors the only class to reach the finals four years in a row. She posted an overall record that year of 18-15.

Bruno was a three-time All-Big Sky second team selection, and was named to the All-Big Sky first-team and All-Academic team as a senior year. While at NAU, Bruno was also awarded the SkyJacks Scholarship given to one athlete a year for outstanding academic and athletic performance. After graduation from Northern Arizona, Bruno traveled and held jobs as a ski instructor and whitewater rafting guide at Sunlight Mountain in Glenwood Springs, Colo., and later as a tennis pro for Club Med in the Bahamas.

In 2002 she was hired as the assistant women's tennis coach at Dartmouth College, where her responsibilities included individual lessons, recruiting, travel scheduling, and setting up tournaments. Bruno then spent two years at the University of Connecticut as the men's and women's graduate assistant tennis coach. At Connecticut she served as the only assistant to head coach Glenn Marshall.

Bruno's other coaching experience includes teaching tennis at country clubs during the summers for nine years, including one summer spent in Flagstaff teaching tennis at Forest Highlands Country Club.

The Chicago, Ill., native earned a bachelor's degree in health and physical education from Northern Arizona in 2000 and a master's degree in sports management from Connecticut in 2005.

Orsi Golovics

Orsi Golovics

Title: Assistant Coach
Phone: 928-523-3412
Email: og7@nau.edu
Year: 2nd
College: Northern Arizona '11

Orsi Golovics enters her second season as the assistant coach for the NAU women's tennis program after returning to the Lumberjack women's tennis program following an illustrious four-year career for the Lumberjacks.

From 2008-2011, Golovics, a native of Szentendre, Hungary, was a key member of the Lumberjack women's tennis team, that achieved four double-digit win seasons and runner-up finishes at the Big Sky Conference Tournament in all four of Golovics' seasons at NAU. Golovics was a four-year letterwinner and is one of only four players in program history to be named All-Big Sky first team three or more times.

She made an immediate impact from the time she stepped on the court at NAU as a freshman, earning All-Big Sky first team honors in 2008 despite struggling with a wrist injury for most of the season. As a freshman, she teamed with fellow freshman Edit Suhajda to go 12-6 in doubles play that season, including an 8-6 mark at the No. 1 doubles.

Golovics would go on to earn All-Big Sky first team honors in 2009 and 2011, sandwiched around an All-Big Sky second team selection in 2010. Golovics spent the majority of her career at NAU at the No. 2 singles position, compiling a 51-28 overall singles record and an impressive 22-6 singles record in Big Sky Conference play. She was primarily part of the No. 1 doubles team during her four years and notched a 46-30 overall doubles record and an even more impressive 23-3 mark against conference opponents.

To begin her junior season in 2010, Golovics entered the season ranked No. 19 in singles in the ITA Mountain region and also was ranked both regionally as well as nationally in doubles. Teamed with Malia Wahinepio, the pair began the spring season ranked No. 35 nationally and No. 5 in the Mountain region.

Although this will be Golovics' first collegiate coaching experience, she has prior coaching experience as a tennis coach at Camp Canadensis in Canadensis, Pa. and at Camp Lakota in Wurtsboro, N.Y. during the summers of 2009 and 2010. Most recently, Golovics spent the Fall 2011 semester as a marketing intern with the NAU athletics department while finishing her work towards her undergraduate degree.

Golovics, a three-time Golden Eagle Scholar-Athlete Award recipient, earned her bachelor of science degree in business administration, double majoring in management and marketing from Northern Arizona University in 2011.