Ann Koger enters her 30th year as head coach of women’s tennis at Haverford College in 2011-12. She also serves as Associate Director of Athletics. Under her leadership, the women’s tennis team has an all-time record of 307-202, and she has coached three conference singles champions, two conference doubles champions, and a host of players with conference, regional, and national rankings.

Koger's devotion to tennis has earned her a spot In the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Middle States Hall of Fame Class of 2010. Koger will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in November with Dennis Alter, Robert Jordan, Lisa Raymond and Ron Woods. She was also selected as a member of the Black Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2010 and was one of four honorees at the Philadelphia Association of Black Sports and Culture, Inc.'s Annual Recognition Banquet

In 2011, Haverford qualified for the conference tournament for the third-straight year.  Koger hadhad three players named to the all-conference list, as her squad rose as high as 13th in the ITA rankings.  The Fords enter the 2012 season coming off a 13-win year-the most wins for the team since 1999 (15). 

The 2010 season saw the Fords reach the Centennial Conference tournament for the second consecutive year. Haverford opened conference play by winning seven of its first eight matches. Koger's squad finished the season ranked No. 19 in the Atlantic South Region by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) while Katie Wettick '11 was ranked No. 20.

In 2009, Haverford made great strides toward excellence by finishing fourth in the Centennial Conference and making the team championships for the first time. The Fords received a No. 13 ranking in the Atlantic South Region and Wettick was ranked No. 22 in the region.

Koger is a certified USPTR teaching professional and a member of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). Her educational background includes B.S. and M.S. degrees from Morgan State University, and an Ed.D. in Sports Administration from Temple University.

In her 16th year of serving as a USTA Section National Coach and USTA/MS volunteer, Koger coached the USTA/Middle States to a sixth-place finish nationally at the USTA Girls 18 and under National Team Championships held in Claremont, Calif. in August, 2010.

She was a four-year letter winner in four of the seven varsity sports she competed in while at MSU, and was inducted into that university’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982. Koger played on the Virginia Slims circuit from 1973-77. She has been ranked at many levels of play in the USTA and ATA, and was USPTA/Middle States Player of the Year in 1998 and USPTR International Player of the Year in 1999. She was named Coach of the Year for the USTA/Philadelphia in 1991 and USPTR/Middle States in 1993. Koger received a national community service award from Volvo-ITA in 1989 and another from USTA for Division III in 1996. She was awarded the Montgomery Co. Links, Inc., Wilma Rudolph Award and the Philadelphia Congress of the National Political Congress of Black Women Shirley Chisholm Award in 1995. She was the 1992 Stephen Cary Award winner for her commitment and dedication to women’s athletics at Haverford, and she was co-director of 1985 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championships, which were held at Haverford College. Koger was a 2000 Presidential appointee to the USTA Executive Committee and a member in many other organizations, including AAHPERD, the Women’s Sports Foundation and the Urban League of Philadelphia. Koger has coached several professional, district, section, national ranked players.

Koger has officiated at many levels of basketball for the past 25 years, and in 1985, she became the first woman to officiate an NCAA Division I men’s basketball game. A charter member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, Koger also was Haverford’s first volleyball coach, a position that she held for 15 years while amassing a 159-155 record.

Koger was First Vice President of the American Tennis Association, served on the USTA/MS/PATD executive committee and board of directors, and many other USTA sectional and national committees. She remains active in several other community service activities. Koger has served as the Head Coach, Director of Programs and a member of the Board of Directors for the Bill Johnson Youth Tennis program, based in Philadelphia for the past two years. She served one term as the 2004 Chairperson for the USTA/MS Collegiate Committee and two years on the USTA National Collegiate Committee. Koger will serve 11 years as the Head Coach of the USTA/MS G18 Jr. Federation Cup Head Coach that finished 9th in the nation and served 11 years as the USTA/MS Section Coach at the 2007 USTA G 18 National Hard Court Championships.

Koger was honored as part of the 2007 International Tennis Hall of Fame Exhibit ‘Breaking the Barriers’ at the 2007 US Open in New York, N.Y. as an accomplished and pioneering professional tennis player and as a contributor to the exhibit through artifacts and oral history. Koger was honored and received awards during June, 2008 from the Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education Center in Philadelphia and the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I. She also received an award in July, 2008 during American Tennis Association New England Open Championships for ‘Breaking the Barriers’ in the sport of tennis. The exhibit is currently traveling the country and housed in the Black Tennis History Museum.