Jaron Maestas - Tennis Coach - Iowa State University Athletics

Jaron Maestas

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
jmaestas@iastate.edu

Audio Pronunciation: JARE-inn my-ESS-tahs

Jaron Maestas is in his third season as head coach of the Iowa State tennis program. He was named the 11^th head coach of the Iowa State Women’s Tennis program on June 28, 2023.

The 2024-25 Cyclone tennis team continued to make strides as it showed overall improvement, winning seven more matches overall and three more in Big 12 play from his first season. ISU finished the season 11-11 overall and 5-8 in conference action, including wins over No. 31 Arizona and a 4-3 victory over Iowa. The win against the Hawkeyes was ISU's second in Iowa City in the last 48 seasons and clinched the athletics department's Cy-Hawk Series victory.

ISU had a young squad in 2024-25, with senior Anna Supapitch Kuearum being joined on the roster by two sophomores and five freshmen. Despite the youth, three Cyclones earned All-Big 12 honors led by Kuearum, who was named a second-teamer in singles and doubles while breaking the school record with 17 career conference wins. Kuearum earned her doubles recognition alongside freshman Cristina Ramos Sierra, while rookie Julia Camblor earned second-team singles honors and a spot on the Big 12's All-Freshman Team. Camblor broke the ISU freshman record with 25 overall singles wins.

The Cyclones finished the season ranked No. 65 in the ITA's final poll after topping out at No. 46 during the regular season. Kuearum climbed to as high as No. 64 in the singles poll.

Maestas' first season at Iowa State in 2023-24 was a rebuilding season with just one player remaining on the roster from the previous campaign. The Cyclones played 12 of 21 matches without a full lineup and finished the season 4-17. Maestas collected his first win as the Cyclone head coach against South Dakota and earned Big 12 victories over Cincinnati and Houston.

Kuearum moved from No. 4 singles the previous season to the top slot and became just the ninth Cyclone to win at least 10 matches in the No. 1 slot.

Maestas was associate head coach at Big 12 rival Kansas for two seasons (2021-23), where he helped the Jayhawks to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances. KU went 15-11 in 2022, played in the NCAA Tournament and finished with a season-ending Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) ranking of No. 29; while the 2023 Jayhawks were 15-8, advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2019, and placed 23^rd in the final ITA poll.

Before joining the KU staff, he spent five seasons as the head coach at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO), where he led the unheralded Bronchos’ program to a 78-22 (.780) record, a pair of Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) titles and four NCAA Division II Tournament appearances while earning two ITA Wilson Central Region Coach of the Year (2019, 2021) citations. Maestas’ 2021 UCO team finished 21-2 overall, won a program-record 19-straight matches at one point, swept the MIAA regular-season and tournament titles, advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Division II Tournament and produced four All-Americans. The Bronchos were ranked No. 3 in the season-ending ITA poll, featured student-athletes ranked No. 3 and No. 5 nationally in singles as well as No. 2 and No. 10 in doubles, and Maestas earned ITA Wilson Central Region Coach of the Year honors.

Maestas’ 2019 Bronchos posted a 19-5 record, won the MIAA Tournament title and reached the NCAA Tournament’s Round of 16, while his 2018 squad tied the school’s then-single-season record for victories in a 20-4 campaign and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever. His first UCO team was 14-9 and lost in the championship match of the NCAA Central Regional Tournament.

Before taking the reins at Central Oklahoma, Maestas spent 11 years as the head professional at Tulsa’s Philcrest Hills Tennis Club. He coached 10 players at Philcrest Hills who went on to win Oklahoma state high school championships and 12 players from his program went on to play at the collegiate level.

The Las Vegas, New Mexico, native played collegiately at both Western New Mexico and New Mexico State before graduating from NMSU in 2005. He and his wife, Layne, have two children, Jaxton and Landon.

Jaron Maestas Year-by-Year

Year	School	Record	Conference/Finish	Postseason	Final ITA Rank
2017	Central Oklahoma	14-9 (.609)	7-2/3rd	NCAA Tournament	43rd
2018	Central Oklahoma	20-4 (.833)	8-1/2nd	NCAA Quarterfinals	9th
2019	Central Oklahoma	19-5 (.792)	8-1/2nd	NCAA Round of 16	8th
2020	Central Oklahoma	4-2 (.667)	-/-	-	9th
2021	Central Oklahoma	21-2 (.913)	8-0/1st	NCAA Semifinals	3rd
Totals at Central Oklahoma	Five Seasons	78-22 (.780)	31-4 (.886)	4 NCAA Tournaments
2024	Iowa State	4-17 (.190)	2-11/12th	-	NR
2025	Iowa State	11-11 (.500)	5-8/11th	-	65
Totals at Iowa State	Two Seasons	15-28 (.349)	7-19 (.269)	-
Career Totals	Seven Seasons	93-50 (.650)	38-23 (.623)	4 NCAA Tournaments