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Ali Borhani

  • Title
    Head Men's Tennis Coach
Pre-Keiser
Borhani comes to Keiser after spending four years as a private coach for two juniors and three professional players. Between those five players, Borhani has coached three ITF singles title winners and 11 doubles title winners. He has coached multiple players from unranked into the top 400 of their respective classes.

Before Borhani took his role as a private coach, he was coaching at Boise State for three seasons. In his three years with the Broncos, the team went from as low as a 242 ranking to a 64 ranking in the NCAA. Under Borhani, five Broncos have earned All-MW recognition, the team has earned 11 Academic All-Mountain West and five MW Scholar-Athlete accolades (3.5 or better cumulative GPA), as well as two ITA Scholar-Athlete awards. In 2021, he was a finalist for National Assistant Coach of the Year.

Borhani came to Boise State from Mesa Community College in Arizona, where he spent five years, four as an assistant and one as the head coach for both the men's and women's programs. During Borhani's five years at Mesa, he helped guide the men's team to five consecutive trips to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Championship tournament, registering five top-10 finishes, including fourth place in 2014 and a fifth-place result in 2015. The women's team reached the national tournament three times in the five-year stretch, placing in the top 10 each time, including a third-place finish in 2016. While at Mesa, Borhani helped the men's team to five straight NJCAA regional championships 2014 to 2018 and the women to the 2014 championship and back-to-back titles in 2016 and 2017. He was named the ITA Men's Tennis Regional Assistant Coach of the Year twice, in 2016 and 2017, in addition to the ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year and Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) Assistant Coach of the Year in 2017. During his final year at the helm in Mesa, the men's team recorded their fifth-consecutive undefeated conference record and placed ninth at the NJCAA National Tournament. 

Prior to Mesa Community College, he coached for one season at his alma mater Scottsdale Community College (Ariz.) where he was named the ACCAC Coach of the Year in 2013 after taking the Artichokes to a fourth-place finish at the NJCAA National Championship. 

Personal
Borhani attended Scottsdale Community College, where he was an all-conference player. He received his associate's degree from Scottsdale in 2008 and a bachelor's in 2018 from Ottawa University (Ariz.).