Philip Reichle
Head Tennis Coach
Coach Reichle is now in his 4th year as Head Coach for High School Tennis. For the past 3 years, he was also Head Coach for Middle School Tennis as well. Under his leadership, CCS High School Tennis Team has won 3 State Championships (2024, 2025, 2026) and CCS Middle School Tennis Team has won 2 ISAL Championships (2025, 2026). 12 Varsity Tennis Team Players have won State Championship Titles in Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles with him as Head Coach. Also as Head Coach, a new record was set having the first CCS Tennis players to go on to play Tennis at the Collegiate level. 3 CCS Varsity players are now playing on the Tennis Teams at their Universities.
In addition to serving as Head Coach, Coach Reichle has been teaching for 14 years, 11 years at CCS. This year he is teaching not only AP Calculus but also Psychology/Sociology, having taught Psychology before as an Adjunct Professor at Nyack College in New York.
He and his wife, Jennifer, have been married for 26 years, and they have 2 sons who both play Tennis. Caleb is a Senior at Texas A & M University, Majoring in Civil Engineering. He is also getting his Coaching Certification with the Thornton-McFerrin Coaching Academy at Texas A & M and has been a CCS Tennis Volunteer Assistant Coach for 3 years for High School and Middle School Tennis. Nathaniel is a Junior at Abilene Christian University, where he is earning a Double Major in Business Administration and Musical Theater. Nathaniel worked this summer in 2 paid acting jobs in Abilene and Atlanta and then did a 2-week internship in Munich, Germany. Both of Coach Reichle’s sons are State Tennis Champions. Caleb won the State Championship in 2022 in Boys’ Doubles, and Nathaniel won the State Championship in Boys Singles in 2023 and 2024 and in Mixed Doubles in 2024.
The Reichle family was impacted in 2016 when their vehicle was hit “head-on” at 70mph when a 17 year old driver crossed the lane on a 2-lane highway near Kerrville. Coach and Mrs Reichle have been asked to speak numerous times to Drivers Ed classes and tell their story. They had life-threatening injuries and rehabilitation and recovery over 5 years. Tennis was instrumental in their rehabilitation, working on eye-hand coordination and balance.
Coach Reichle earned his Master of Divinity degree with a concentration in Cross-Cultural studies from Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York in 2004. He earned his B.A. in Astronomy and Physics with Minors in Math, Statistics and Religious Studies from the University of Tennessee in 1997. Go VOLS!
Our CCS Tennis Team verse this year is Romans 12:11: “Serving the Lord.” Everything we do in Tennis, on and off the courts, is all about serving the Lord.