Alex Covington

Alex Covington

Covington was named Millikin University's Director of Tennis in May of 2017.  She came to Millikin after serving as Assistant Men's and Women's Tennis Coach at Allegheny College for two seasons. 

In her three seasons at the helm of the Millikin men's and women's tennis programs, Covington has maintained the success of the men's program while steadily improving the women's program to the fourth slot in the conference standings. In the shortened 2020-21 women's season, the team earned their first win over Carthage in program history. 
 
A native of Villa Hills, Kentucky, Covington played tennis collegiately for four years at the University of Indianapolis, a member of the NCAA Division-II Great Lakes Valley Conference.  Earning three letters on the court, she was named an Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete each year from 2010-13, and was selected to the GLVC All-Academic Team in 2011.   As a senior in 2012-13, she tied for the team lead with 12 doubles wins, helping Indianapolis to a 10-4 overall record, and 5-1 GLVC mark.
 
In each summer from 2011-13, Covington worked as coach, counselor, and dorm director at the Stanford University Nike Tennis Camp under legendary coach Dick Gould, who led Stanford to 17 NCAA championships.  

Covington serves as a PTR GameChangers Committee member. PTR is the largest global organization of tennis teaching professionals with more than 16,000 members in 131 countries.  It has the greatest percentage of multicultural and women members of any such organization. In February 2020, Covington was named PTR's Young Professional of the Year. 

She was a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Indianapolis with a degree in history and minor in Spanish, before attending the University of Louisville to pursue a Masters in history, with a concentration in British history.  At Louisville, she served as a graduate teaching assistant in the history department.