Jim Frederick is in his fourth year as the head men's and women's tennis coach at Carson-Newman. 

The 2019-20 campaign saw minor success for the squads. The men's team came away with a perfect .500 record (5-5) before the season was cut short due to the COVID pandemic. On the women's side, the Eagles finished 6-4 with a blemishing 1-2 conference record towards the end of the shortened season.

Frederick saw some success on the women's side during their 2018 campaign. The women were 9-7 overall before a small slide at the end of the year in which they lost their last three contests including their match against Lenoir-Rhyne in the SAC Championship Quarterfinals that they lost 4-2. 

The same can't be said for the men who finished the season 3-17 overall including a 2-8 mark in conference play leaving them in 10th place in the SAC.

Frederick previously worked as the Director of Junior Tennis at the Knoxville Racquet Club.  The East Stroudsburg University graduate has spent the last 26 years in the Knoxville area working in tennis in some capacity.  He spent more than a decade as the head professional at the Cedar Bluff Racquet Club and Beaverbrook Country Club. 

Frederick has been highly involved with a litany of organizational bodies in the Southeast.  He's worked the Greater Knoxville Tennis Association as a Junior Development Director and has spent time with the Tennessee Tennis Association as the Chairman of the Junior Team Tennis Committee.

He served as the president of USTA Tennessee from 2010-12 and worked as chairman of both the Tennessee Tennis Patrons Foundation and the Southern USTA Innovative Pro Relations Committee.

Prior to his days as a head professional, Frederick coached collegiately at Miami (Ohio) and Michigan State.  He was 212-109 in 12 years as a collegiate head coach. 

He helped Miami Ohio to a quartet of Mid-American Conference titles at the start of his coaching career with the Redhawks before rounding out his tenure in Oxford with a fifth MAC title in 1989.  The Redhawks never finished below third in the MAC standings in Frederick's decade with the program.   Miami also won a quartet of MAC tournament titles. 

After Miami, Frederick did a two-year stint at Michigan State, taking over a Spartan men's tennis program that won one Big Ten match in a decade prior to his arrival. Frederick helped MSU snap a 63-match conference losing streak and garner its first league win since 1982. As a result, Michigan State improved by eight wins in his first year and garnered its most wins in a season in 23 years, since 1967. 

"We want to develop a culture of hard work here," Frederick said. "We want our players to go out on the court and know that they've put in the time and the effort that they deserve to win."

Frederick played collegiately at East Stroudsburg where, as a two-year captain and most valuable player, he led the Warriors to two straight PSAC championships.