Began: 2017-18
Season: 2020-21 will be his fourth season at Webber
Overall Men's Record At Webber Entering 2021 Season: 17-30 (3 seasons; .362 winning percentage)
Overall Women's Record At Webber Entering 2021 Season: 14-35 (3 seasons; .286 winning percentage)
Accolades: One Sun Conference Tournament appearance on both the men's and women's sides (2019)
During his second season at Webber in 2019, Coach Cutshaw helped guide both the Warriors' men's and women's tennis teams to The Sun Conference Tournament for the first time in seven years. It was the first appearance in the tournament for the Webber men's team since the 2014-15 season and was the first for the women's team since the 2011-12 campaign.
In Cutshaw's first year in 2018, he led the Webber women's tennis program to its highest win totals both overall and in the conference since 2012 while the men's team reached its highest win totals since 2015. Then in 2019, both programs increased their number of wins and went 4-3 in The Sun Conference to earn the No. 4 seed in the postseason. Additionally, the Webber men's team reached the 10-win mark for the first time since 2014.
Individually, Coach Cutshaw's first season with the Warriors in 2018 saw Hugo Hasegawa go on to be named Second-Team All-American and First-Team All-Sun Conference, making him the first Webber men's tennis player to earn all-conference since the 2013-14 season. Webber added to its number of all-conference picks under Cutshaw in 2019 with Hasegawa being named to the first-team for the second year in a row while Ivan Bondarenko and Tare Mariga were both named to the second-team.
2018 also marked the first time Webber had an individual [Hasegawa] ranked both regionally and nationally in men's tennis since 2013-14. and was also the first time Webber was ranked regionally in doubles since 2014-15. In fact, the regional doubles ranking was something that was accomplished by Cutshaw in each of his first two seasons at Webber with Hasegwa and Bondarenko in 2018 and Mariga and Bondarenko in 2019. Bondarenko and Mariga also became a nationally-ranked duo in 2019.
Cutshaw is a former NCAA D-II athlete where he played tennis and graduated in 1998 at Davis and Elkins College where he compiled an overall collegiate record of 76-22. He went on to coach the program at Davis and Elkins College where he has been the head coach for the men and women’s tennis for nine years.
Cutshaw is a former professional tennis player as he has spent time ranked as high as 30th in the country in men’s 35’s. He was in the top 10 for the men’s open singles and #1 for doubles in the USTA Mid-Atlantic Regional and State rankings over the last 20 years.
In the last eight year’s as the head coach at Davis and Elkins, Cutshaw has won seven GMAC Conference Championships (4 Men – 3 Women) and five Coach of the Year Awards. The last five years since joining the GMAC, D&E’s record has been 52-45 (men) and 73-48 (women). Under Cutshaw, they have had 27 First-Team All-Conference players and 40+ ITA Scholar Athletes, and the women’s tennis team won the Pillar of Education this year with an overall 3.6 GPA.
Coach Cutshaw is also a certified tennis teaching professional for high performance, adults, juniors and 10 and under certifications with the Professional Tennis Registry. He is married to his wife Samantha, and has two sons, Mason and Donovan, and a dog named Rugar.
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| Year |
Season at WIU |
Men's Record |
Men's Conference Finish |
Women's Record |
Women's Conference Finish |
| 2017-18 |
1st |
5-13 |
6th TSC |
5-14 |
T-6th TSC |
| 2018-19 |
2nd |
10-9* |
TSC Tournament Semifinals
*Coach's Record for Wins
T-3rd TSC |
8-10* |
TSC Tournament Semifinals
*Coach's Record for Wins
4th TSC |
| 2019-20 |
3rd |
2-8* |
*Season Cut Short Due to COVID-19
8th TSC |
1-11* |
*Season Cut Short Due to COVID-19
8th TSC |
| Overall |
Men: 17-30 (.362 winning percentage) |
Women: 14-35 (.286 winning percentage) |
