Le'Trone Mason, who helped Georgia State to a record-setting 2022 season as an assistant coach, was elevated to the head coach of the Panthers' women's tennis program in July 2022. Mason is the 16th head coach for women's tennis at GSU since the program's inception in 1976.
Mason is a long-time head coach with over 20 years of collegiate coaching experience, including a national championship at the junior college level.
In 2022, Mason helped lead the Panthers to a turnaround season that saw the team chart a 17-6 record for the spring and earn a share of the Sun Belt Conference Regular Season Championship. Mason helped coach four players to all-conference merit, and the team's 17 match victories tied the school record for wins in a season while marking the largest turnaround in school history.
Prior to joining the Panthers' staff in January 2022, Mason served as the head women's tennis coach at Clayton State for seven years, where he led the Lakers to two NCAA Division II National Championships appearances and an NCAA Final Four berth in 2011. In his first year as head coach, Mason led Clayton State to a program-best 18-8 overall mark and a No. 7 final national ranking for the season.
Before his tenure at Clayton State, Mason served as the interim head coach for women's tennis at Division II Clark Atlanta in 2010. Additionally, Mason served as head coach for both men's and women's tennis at Division I Chicago State, where he led the Cougars' women's team to a National Independent Tennis Championship in 2009.
From 2004 to 2007, Mason spent three seasons as head coach at Broward Community College, where he coached the women's tennis team to the 2006 National Junior College Athletic Association Tennis Championship. Under Mason's guidance, Broward saw seven first team and two second team NJCAA All-American selections for singles, three first team and one second team All-American selections for doubles, one NJCAA Freshman of the Year and one NJCAA Player of the Year honoree.
Mason entered his collegiate coaching career at Division I Florida A&M in 1997. While at Florida A&M, he served as an assistant under veteran head coach Dr. Carl Goodman from 2000 to 2003.
A standout player who competed at the top court for both singles and doubles at Florida A&M, Mason was a two-time All-Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference selection for the Rattlers' men's tennis team. He graduated from Florida A&M with a bachelor's degree in computer information systems in 1997.
Mason holds a 71-90 collegiate head coaching record at NCAA programs.
Apart from collegiate coaching, Mason also earned his USPTA (United States Professional Tennis Association) teaching certification in 2000 and has taught and instructed at numerous tennis centers and academies throughout the U.S. In 2019, he became the owner and director of Inside Out Tennis LLC, an organization that focuses on teaching the game of tennis to clients of all ages and levels of ability.
Mason and his wife, Taneka, have two daughters, Azjhani and Malia.
