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Tom Linhart Jr. enters his sixth season in 2024-25 as the head men's and women's tennis coach. Linhart completed three full seasons from 2017-2020 but departed prior to the 2020-2021 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Linhart is a United States Tennis Association Elite Professional as well as a certified professional with the PTR (Professional Tennis Registry) having 17 years of teaching experience at the club and collegiate levels. He has 14 years of collegiate coaching experience at the D-II and D-III levels, helping develop five regionally ranked and two nationally ranked players.

Last season, Linhart guided the women’s team to seven wins and the men’s team to six wins. First years Kira Kronenberg was named Liberty League Rookie of the Year and was a First Team Singles performer while she and first year Maya Clinard were Second Team Doubles selections. Kronenber finished the season with a program-record 19 wins, capping off her rookie campaign ranked third in the Region II and among the top-40 in Division III.

In Linhart’s inaugural season with the RIT women’s tennis team, he coached Kristen Zablonski as she set records for most dual wins (14) and overall wins (20) in a season. The former record was matched by Zablonski and Kirsten Auble, before being broken by Claire Casalnova with 15 the following season that allowed Linhart to lay claim to the top-three dual season winners in RIT women's tennis history.

During the 2018-19 season, Linhart tied a 36-year women’s tennis program record for wins in a season at 13, while guiding Shayna Ginster and Amelia Young to the doubles dual wins women’s tennis record in a season at 14. That season saw Linhart guide the women’s tennis team to program-first wins over St. Lawrence, Ithaca and RPI on the way to the team’s first Liberty League semifinal appearance.

Prior to RIT, Linhart spent two seasons at Elmira College as the head men's and women's tennis coach after guiding D-II Lake Superior State University (Mich.) for six seasons from 2009-15. Linhart began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at Elmira from 2006-09.

Linhart played collegiately at St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, N.Y. from 2002-06, accumulating 80 wins and garnering all-conference honors on five occasions, including doubles recognition three times and singles honors twice.

Linhart earned his bachelor's degree in childhood and special education from St. John Fisher in 2006 and his master's degree in education from Elmira in 2009.

Prior to RIT, Linhart spent two seasons at Elmira College as the head men's and women's tennis coach after guiding D-II Lake Superior State University (Mich.) for six seasons from 2009-15. Linhart began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at Elmira from 2006-09.

Linhart played collegiately at St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, N.Y. from 2002-06, accumulating 80 wins and garnering all-conference honors on five occasions, including doubles recognition three times and singles honors twice.

Linhart earned his bachelor's degree in childhood and special education from St. John Fisher in 2006 and his master's degree in education from Elmira in 2009.