Jason Cohen - Men's Tennis Coach - Bucknell University Athletics

Jason Cohen

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
jc099@bucknell.edu
Phone:
570-577-1058

Jason Cohen, who has been a collegiate head coach dating back 15 years to the end of his record-setting playing career at Stevenson University, was selected as Bucknell's head men's tennis coach in August 2022. Cohen came to Bucknell from the California Institute of Technology, where he had been Caltech's head men's coach for the previous four seasons.

In his first three seasons at the helm, Cohen elevated the Bison back to the top of the Patriot League, culminating in the program's first conference championship since 1991 in the spring of 2025. Bucknell defeated Navy 4-1 -- its first-ever dual-match win over the Midshipmen -- in the tourney final on its home courts to clinch the program's first-ever team berth in the NCAA Tournament.

Bucknell went 50-22 in Cohen's first three seasons, its most wins in any three-year period in team history. The Bison finished 19-7 during the 2025 championships season, tying the school record for dual wins in a season.

Cohen has helped develop one of the top senior classes in school history, led by Patriot League Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year Amar Tahirovic. A two-time Patriot League individual champion in both singles and doubles, Tahirovic started the 2025-26 season with a top-50 national ranking and earned berths in several high-level national ITA tournaments.

Prior to Bucknell, Cohen became Caltech's first-ever head men's tennis coach in July of 2018, after the school split the men's and women's coaching positions. Two years later, the Beavers achieved the highest ranking in school history when they were listed 15th in the Division III rankings. The team had never before beaten a top-25 opponent, but during Cohen's tenure it did so six times. Last spring, Caltech set a school record with 14 dual-match victories.

Cohen coached Caltech's very first NCAA singles qualifier and ITA All-American in Varun Shanker, who fell to the eventual national champion in the round of 16 and ended the season ranked No. 10 nationally. Shanker and partner James Wei were two-time ITA Doubles All-Americans, and both were also CoSIDA First Team Academic All-Americans.

Cohen graduated from Stevenson in 2007 with a bachelor of science degree in computer information systems. In 2019, he was inducted into the Stevenson Athletics Hall of Fame, in recognition of a terrific career in which he played No. 1 singles all four years and set the school record for career singles and doubles victories. A three-year team captain, he was a two-time First Team All-North Eastern Athletic Conference and was part of two NEAC team championships.

Immediately after graduation, Cohen transitioned into the role of men's and women's head coach, and he served in that capacity at Stevenson for five seasons.

In January 2012, Cohen took over as head men's and women's tennis coach at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., where he posted a combined record of 94-51. His 2015 men's squad won its first-ever Landmark Conference title, and not only did the team make the NCAA Tournament for the first time, but it also won a first-round match. Cohen coached two Landmark Player of the Year honorees and one Rookie of the Year. Meanwhile, his Juniata women's teams won the 2015 ECAC Division III championship and reached the semifinals of the Landmark Tournament in three straight years.

Cohen moved on to Colby College in Waterville, Maine in September 2015 and coached the Mules' men's and women's teams for the next three seasons. His Colby men's team was ranked as high as No. 37 in the ITA national rankings, and Vlad Murad became an NCAA singles All-American and the NCAA Elite 90 Award winner. The women's team was ranked as high as 38th nationally after not appearing in the rankings for the previous 15 years.

Cohen is a 2015 graduate of the USTA High Performance Coaching Program, and he has served as an NCAA West Regional Advisory Committee member for men's tennis and an ITA West Regional Tournament Committee member for both the men and women. In 2013, he served as a coach with Tennis Europe, leading a group of 16 junior players for three weeks in Italy, Holland, and France.