Jesse Medvene-Collins

Position: Assistant Coach (Third Season) Alma Mater: University of Redlands, 2002

Jesse Medvene-Collins enters his second season as assistant coach at the University of Iowa.

In his first season at Iowa, Medvene-Collins helped the Hawkeyes reach the NCAA Division I doubles tournament for just the fourth time in program history.

Medvene-Collins, a native of Washington D.C., broke into collegiate coaching with stints at Dartmouth and Wake Forest. While serving as an assistant coach for the Demon Deacons, he helped guide Wake Forest to three straight NCAA appearances and top 25 national rankings from 2005-07.

Medvene-Collins helped lead Dartmouth into the top 100 while serving as an assistant coach from 2003-05. He later went on to become an assistant coach at his alma mater, the University of Redlands, where he helped lead the Bulldogs to conference championships in 2008 and 2009. Medvene-Collins earned his BA from Redlands in 2002 before returning to earn his MA in 2009. He was a four-year letterwinner and three-time all-conference honoree while competing for the Bulldogs from 1998-2002.

Prior to joining the Hawkeyes, Medvene-Collins served as head coach at Mills College from 2009-10.