Olaya Garrido-Rivas was hired as the head women’s tennis coach. She came to Missouri Western after two seasons as an assistant women’s tennis coach at NCAA Division I member Middle Tennessee State. A native of Gijon, Asturias, Spain, she was a second-team All-Big 12 selection as a women’s tennis player at Texas Christian University in 2017 and was named the Big 12 Women’s Tennis Newcomer of the Year in 2016 after transferring to TCU from the University of South Florida.
She received her bachelor’s degree in communications studies from TCU in 2017. Since graduating from Middle Tennessee with a master’s in leisure and sport management, Garrido-Rivas had been working as an instructor with the Rafa Nadal Academy.