The 2023-24 season is Bill Maze's 29th year as UC Davis' women's tennis head coach. Maze enters the 2023-24 campaign with 315 career victories - a career that started when he became the head coach in 1990 of the University of Pacific women's tennis program.
The Ags saw 8 victories during their 2022-23 season with 4 of those being at home. Aggies ran a mid season 3-game win streak
taking down Montana, Montana State and conference opponent Hawaii.
The team was also recognized as a Division I Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team for a second consecutive year. It is the tenth time the program has earned the honor.
As was the case also in 2018-19 when the Aggies continued their strong tradition of success by recording their second of back-to-back seasons with 15 dual match wins, a 6-2 conference record and a No. 2 seed at the conference's year-end postseason tournament, the 2019-20 team was building momentum leading up to the league's year-end tournament until COVID forced a premature end to the season.
Once the Aggies returned to action in the spring of 2021, the team ended the regular season with victories in four of its last five duals; stretching back to their final non-conference matches, wins were earned in six of the final eight regular season contests. Among those positive results was a 4-3 victory at Cal State Fullerton — the team's first on the Titans' home courts since 2015.
In March, 2020, UC Davis women's tennis also earned an NCAA Public Recognition Award for an outstanding Academic Progress Rate (APR) by posting its 12th perfect score in program history. This is the highest total of any men's or women's team sponsored by the Big West.
Shortly after the conclusion of the 2013-14 season, Maze was honored by the United States Tennis Association as one of its newest member of the Northern California Hall of Fame for his success as a student-athlete at Stanford, and coach at the Division I level.
Led by Maze, UC Davis defeated two nationally ranked teams in 2013. Two weeks after upsetting their cross-Causeway rivals, No. 63 Sacramento State on its own courts, the Aggies defeated No. 64 San Jose State, on the road, by an identical 4-3 score.
In 2012, the Aggies advanced past the Big West Tournament quarterfinals for the first time in program history. This came one year after Maze was named Big West Coach of the Year in 2011 for leading UC Davis to a 17-7 record and a No. 2 seed at the conference tournament.
Under Maze, the Aggies have posted an overall record of 212-181, including a 69-28 mark in conference matches. As a Div. II team, UC Davis captured the California Collegiate Athletic Association title three times in a row from 1999-2002. Maze was honored as the league's Coach of the Year in each of those seasons. In each of his first eight seasons, UC Davis visited the NCAA Div. II championships and advanced to the quarterfinals five times.
Maze came to UC Davis from nearby University of the Pacific in Stockton where he was the head coach of the women's team for five years. At Pacific, he took an unranked team that had finished sixth in the Big West Conference to a second-place conference finish four of the five years he was there. The Tigers also ended the 1994-95 year ranked 34th nationally in the Division I poll. That finish earned Maze honors as the Big West Conference's Co-Coach of the Year.
Prior to coaching, he was the Director of Tennis at the Harbor Bay Club in Alameda from 1985-90. He also played the pro circuit from 1978-84, competing in all four Grand Slam tournaments and achieving an ATP world ranking inside the top 200.
Maze was the No. 1-ranked 16-year-old in the country in 1972, capturing the national 16-and-under title in Kalamazoo, Mich. that year. He went on to Stanford, where he earned his B.S. in economics in 1978. His last two years he co-captained his teams to the NCAA team titles and was awarded the Rafael Osuna Award for "sportsmanship, competitiveness and contributions to the game" as a junior. Under the tutelage of Cardinal coach Dick Gould, Maze was a three-time All-American at Stanford, playing No. 1 doubles with John McEnroe as a senior.
In 2005, Maze brought his former teammate to Davis to play an exhibition match against Wayne Ferreira and help with the dedication of the new Marya Welch Tennis Center.
