Bob Bales enters his second season as an assistant men's tennis coach during the 2013-14 academic year after helping coach a pair of all-Sothern Conference selections a year ago.

Bales, who has extensive experience in both the tennis and business realms, attended East Carolina, where he majored in business. A successful serial entrepreneur, he is Executive Director of the TEDS Foundation, an organization which promotes tennis in rural areas and provides financial support to individuals who wish to pursue their life goals through tennis.

Bales is a competitive club player and has partnered with Don Johnson, Murphy Jensen, Jeff Tarango and Brenda Schultz-McCarthy in a variety of pro-am tournaments. In addition, Bales has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for various charities by supporting or organizing charitable tennis events.