Army West Point Athletics
Women's Tennis
- Title:
- Associate Head Women's Tennis Coach
- Email:
- martha.rowley@westpoint.edu
- Phone:
- 4452
Martha Rowley joined the Army women's tennis staff as a volunteer assistant at the start of the 2011-12 season. She was promoted to assistant coach prior to the start of the 2014-15 season, and heads into her 14th year at West Point in 2024-25.
Rowley has been a part of five Patriot League Tournament Championships and has helped longtime head coach Paul Peck to Coach of the Year accolades six times, including most recently in 2024-25.
Army possesses a 280-100 with Rowley on staff. Rowley has developed 17 Black Knights into Patriot League All-First Team selections, four Patriot League Players of the Year, three Patriot League Rookies of the Year and three Patriot League Doubles Teams of the Year.
Before joining the Army coaching staff, Rowley was the Director of Junior Academy at the Club Deportivo Punto Verde in Leon, Mexico. She oversaw all junior activities from group and individual training blocks, junior camps, travel and was the tournament director for the 2010 1er. Torneo Por Invitación Para Profesionales Del Estado De Guanajuato. While in Mexico, Rowley spent four months working with the Mexican Tennis Federation with the Olympic program.
Before returning to Mexico, she served as the assistant coach for the men's and Women's tennis programs at Indiana State University.
Between college coaching stints, Rowley served as a tennis professional at Harp Performance Tennis, Inc., where she worked with the junior development programs as well as with adult leagues.
Rowley served as an assistant coach at the University of Southern Mississippi where she helped lead the Golden Eagles program to its first national team ranking, the most winning program in school history, recorded the most wins in a single season and helped guide the Golden Eagles to their highest finish (third) in the Conference USA Tennis Championship history.
Rowley also worked with a number of camps. She has served as co-director of the Southern Mississippi Nike Tennis Camp in Hattiesburg, Miss., was the head coach for the Lawrenceville Nike Tennis Camp in Lawrenceville, N.J., for 11 summers(2001-'11), was a counselor at the Lake Bryn Mawr Camp at Honesdale, Penn., while also coaching at the Loyola Country Club in Leon, Mexico.
Rowley is a former standout for the University of Tennessee at Martin, where she played collegiately from 1998 to 2002. She was tabbed team MVP in 2002. At UT-Martin, Rowley held national rankings in singles by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
As a junior player, Rowley was ranked in the top three every year in the Mexico Tennis Federation in both under-16 and under-18 divisions while competing in the Mexican Junior Nationals, ITF Junior Tour and the ITF Professional Women's Tour. In 2003 Martha was inducted into the Punto Verde Junior Tennis Hall of Fame in Leon, Mexico.
Rowley received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from The University of Tennessee at Martin in May 2002 with a major in International Business and a minor in French. She received her Master's of Science in Sport Management from The University of Southern Mississippi in May 2008.
Rowley and her husband, Army Head Men's Tennis Coach, Randy Rowley, reside at West Point, N.Y.
