Lloyd Pearson
Head Coach Women's Tennis (11th season)
Head Coach Men's Tennis (8th season)
College: Rowan University (1995)
Major: Law and Justice
Lloyd Pearson returned to double duty during the 2021-22 scholastic year as he coached both the men’s and women’s tennis programs for the first time since the 2013-14 season. The 2025-26 scholastic year will mark his fifth consecutive season coaching both programs and his eighth season overall serving as the head coach of both teams.
Charged with restarting both dormant programs during the 2011-12 seasons, and again with rebuilding a men’s program that had suffered an 18-42 mark during his six-year absence, Pearson owns an overall mark of 111-116 with both programs. He has built a 77-65 record with the Rutgers-Camden women, including a 77-47 mark over his past nine seasons after suffering an 0-11 mark during the return of the program in 2011-12. Pearson owns a 34-51 mark with the men, a program he is trying to return to the glory days when he established a 30-17 mark between 2011-14.
Pearson enters his 11th season with the Scarlet Raptor women in the fall of 2025, while starting his eighth overall season with the men. He led the women from the 2011-12 restart of the program through the 2014-15 season, then returned as coach since the 2019-20 scholastic year. With the men, he restarted the dormant program in 2011-12 and stayed through his first tour of duty during the 2013-14 campaign. He returned in 2021-22 to help the struggling program.
Pearson’s Rutgers-Camden Coaching Record
Pearson has helped the women post five straight trips to the New Jersey Athletic Conference playoffs. He earned his 60th career victory with the women’s team in a 6-2 win over Penn State-Brandywine on Sept. 17, 2023, and added his 70th victory when a storm-suspended match against DeSales finished in a 5-2 Raptor win on October 3, 2024.
During the 2024-25 season, Pearson watched his team of Jilliane Jaugan and Grace Albert capture All-NJAC Doubles honors. Jaugan also earned NJAC Rookie of the Week honors during a freshman season where she established herself as the Raptors’ top singles player. Three Scarlet Raptors – Alyssa Peacock, Jayde Sue Silva and Ashton Sirko – earned NJAC Academic Honorable Mention.
The 2023-24 season included Katie Moore earning All-NJAC Singles honors, Nicoletta Troilo capturing an NJAC Rookie of the Week award and both Silva and Sirko being recognized as NJAC Academic Honorable Mention.
On the men’s side, Pearson has guided his team through three different conferences over his coaching span, including the North Eastern Athletic Conference and the New Jersey Athletic Conference. During the 2023-24 season, Rutgers-Camden became a member of the Eastern Division of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Conference.
Over the years, Pearson’s women have earned him honors as the New Jersey Athletic Conference Coach of the Year (2013-14 scholastic year) and tied the program’s single-season win record with a 13-5 mark during the 2021-22 scholastic year (matching the 1987 team, which went 13-3).
For the second consecutive season in 2022-23, Pearson’s women featured All-New Jersey Athletic Conference Singles player Sarah Ahrens. The 2022-23 team also featured NJAC Academic First Team player Laurel DiStefano, now an assistant coach with the team.
Ahrens tied the overall program single-season mark with 27 combined wins during the 2021-22 scholastic year, while Tiffany Trivers, LeAnne Hall and Morgan Dempsey finished their stellar Raptor careers with 66, 64 and 49 combined wins, respectively.
Pearson had plenty of success during his three scholastic years with the men’s team from 2011-12 through 2013-14. The club posted a combined 30-17 record, won the North Atlantic Conference West regular-season championship two straight seasons and was a NAC West playoff finalist both years, winning the title during the 2012-13 scholastic year. He also earned North Eastern Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors with the men in 2012-13, posting a 6-0 NEAC record to stretch their NEAC regular-season winning streak to 10-0 over two seasons.
Since rejoining the men’s team in 2021-22, Pearson has been trying to rebuild a depleted program. His men earned three wins during the 2024-25 scholastic year, their most since a 3-8 record during the 2018-19 scholastic year.
Pearson led the women’s and men’s tennis teams to successful seasons during the 2012-2013 scholastic year. The women’s team finished the fall season 10-6 overall and 2-4 in the NJAC, improving from a winless 2011 campaign (0-11 overall, 0-6 in the NJAC) to a 10-win season that featured numerous program records. Freshman sensation Amanda Hickman (27 wins) was named as the NJAC Women’s Tennis Rookie of the Year and was named to the All-Conference Singles Team.
The men’s team had a stellar spring season in 2013, posting a perfect 6-0 NEAC record to win the NAC West Division regular-season title. They went on to capture the NAC West Division Tournament championship. Pearson was selected by his peers as the NEAC Coach of the Year. Six Rutgers-Camden players were selected to the All-Conference teams.
Pearson was hired for the 2011-12 scholastic year, where he restarted a women’s program that hadn’t played since 1987, while his men were fielding a program for the first time since 1996. Although the women finished their season 0-11 overall and 0-6 in the NJAC, Casey Crenny and Nicole DeLecce received NJAC All-Academic honors for outstanding work in the classroom. During the spring season, Pearson’s men posted a 10-4 record, playing an independent schedule.
Pearson, who plays in USTA events in the 40+ age group, started coaching at Lindenwold High School during the 2002-03 scholastic year, spending four seasons molding a brand new women’s program into a formidable team in the Colonial Conference. After posting records of 0-19 and 1-21 in its first two years, Lindenwold improved to 10-13 and 16-8 in Pearson’s final two seasons. He earned Coach of the Year honors in 2005.
Pearson spent the next three seasons at Pitman High School, where his girls’ team won the Group 1 state title in 2006 with a 22-1 record. He later spent two seasons at Bishop Eustace Prep, helping his 2011 team post a 17-1 record.
Between his stints at Rutgers-Camden, Pearson served as the head women’s tennis coach at Holy Family University from August 2017 through April 2018.
A four-year letterman at Neptune High School, where he played first singles, Pearson spent two years at first singles for Brookdale Community College before attending Rowan University. He spent two seasons at third singles for the Profs, where he was the NJAC runner-up both seasons. He also won a conference championship at second doubles during his senior year and graduated from Rowan University in 1995 with a degree in Law and Justice.
