Kevin Lynn succeeded John Skillman who retired after serving as head tennis coach for 29 years.

Lynn, 25, is a native of Toledo, Ohio. Prior to assuming his Yale post in September of 1974, he had been the assistant pro at the Stadium Tennis Center in the Bronx, NY, working under the famed Australian pro, Jim Gilchrist. In that position, he had been administrative director and organizer of the Junior Championships Program and did private coaching. Two of his protegees were Cary Leeds and Jon Gross, two of the top 16-and-under players in the East.

A 1970 graduate of the University of Michigan, where he majored in psychology and speech, Lynn was a varsity member of three successive Big Ten championship squads under the coaching of Bill Murphy. Lynn started as a tennis instructor in 1965 at the Toledo Tennis Club, and, after a three-year stint there (during the summers), worked for two summers as a group lesson professional at the Martin T. Tressel Tennis Center in Pittsburgh. Two of the players he coached there won Pennsylvania state championships.

Lynn also played the European Summer Circuit in 1971, 1972, and 1973, competing in the Wimbledon, French, Australian, Dutch, and Spanish National Championships. He defeated many international class players and, in 1970, was ranked #2 in doubles in the Middle Atlantic States Men’s Division.

Kevin coached only three matches (1-2 record) before leaving Yale on April 10th, 1975.