Hofstra University Athletics

Jeffrey Menaker joined the Hofstra University staff as director of tennis in January 2016. Menaker came to Hofstra after serving as the head coach of the men and women’s tennis programs at Lehman College since August 2014.

During the spring 2016 season with the Pride, Menaker helped the women's team to a 13-7 record. He coached the team to the CAA Quarterfinals after defeating Delaware in the opening round. The CAA Tournament win was Hofstra's first since 2008. Menaker coached the Hofstra men to a 10-7 mark in the spring and saw freshman Marcus Smith earn All-CAA second team accolades.  
 
During his tenure at Lehman, Menaker helped the women’s team to a pair of CUNYAC Quarterfinal appearances, while the men’s team also was CUNYAC quarterfinalists in the one full season (2015) under his tutelage.
 
Prior to his stint at Lehman, Menaker coached the men's tennis program at Yeshiva University from 2010 through 2013. He helped build a roster that led to the first Skyline Conference Championship and the first NCAA tournament bid, for any sport, in the 128-year history of the university in 2014.
 
A New York native, Menaker has also coached scholastic tennis. Since 2013 he has coached at the Bronx High School of Science, leading the Wolverines to the 2015 PSAL Girls' team championship while guiding two National High School All-Americans and multiple individual singles and doubles city champions. Additionally, he has coached at Edgemont High School in Westchester County, where he mentored the 2013 New York State doubles champions. He coached at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan for five seasons, guiding the varsity girls to a 55-8 regular season record, five straight Mayor's Cup appearances, a spot in the 2009 PSAL Class A Championship match, and several NYJTL All-Academic Team Awards.
 
He has been a member of the NYSPHSAA State Tournament seeding committee and, in 2014, helped coach the PSAL Boys' State Tournament Team to its first ever NYSPHSAA points championship. Menaker was honored in 2014 by the NYSPHSAA Section 1 Coaches Association with the Jim San Marco Award for Outstanding Leadership.
 
With the U.S. Tennis Association, he was the Junior Team Tennis Coordinator for the Metro Region in 2012, and a special instructor at the Future College Player Tennis Camp, in 2011. Menaker also served on an ITA Task Force charged with developing tools for college coaches to identify and rate junior players, while expanding the spectrum of recruits who gain visibility.
 
A 2000 honors graduate of Skidmore College with degrees in English literature and theater, Menaker walked on for the Thoroughbreds, and was the first American-born captain of the Lincoln College tennis team, while studying abroad at the University of Adelaide in Australia. He has completed the Shakespeare Programme at the British American Drama Academy as well as the BADA Shakespeare/drama studies course at Oxford University.
 
Menaker, who resides in Woodside, New York, also serves as executive director and founding artistic director of the Citizen Pell Theater Group.