Head
Coach
Derek Sabedra
Maryland '92
ddsabedra@smcm.edu
240-895-3510
Derek Sabedra will commence his second season at the helm of the men’s and women’s tennis programs during the 2007-08 academic year after taking over the reins in August of 2006. Sabedra is looking to make marked improvements on last year’s combined record of 10-17.
Prior to his first appointment as a collegiate head coach, he was the head coach at Great Mills High School from 2002 to 2006. Sabedra led the Hornets to a 15-3 record in his last campaign, earning Southern Maryland Athletic Conference (SMAC) Coach-of-the-Year honors. He captured St. Mary’s County Coach-of-the-Year accolades in 2005 after mentoring Great Mills to a 12-5 mark.
Sabedra has held numerous coaching positions in the tri-county area and is currently the head junior varsity football coach at Great Mills and the assistant girls’ basketball coach at Patuxent High School. In 2000-01, he served as both the assistant boys’ lacrosse and assistant girls’ basketball coach at Great Mills. Sabedra also held two head coaching positions in basketball when he led the Great Mills boys’ basketball team in 2004 and the Calverton Lady Cougars in 2005.
He is also employed within the St. Mary’s County Public Schools system as a behavioral specialist. Raised in Southern Maryland, Sabedra graduated from Calvert High School and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1992. He later earned his master's degree from Bowie State University in 2000. |