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Coach Bernard J. "Tut" Bartzen served as TCU's head men's tennis coach from 1974-1998, where he led the Horned Frogs to five regular season conference titles and eight conference tournament championships between both the Southwest and Western Athletic Conferences.
 
Bartzen compiled a career record of 528-203 (.722), posting 12 20-win seasons and guiding the Horned Frogs to the NCAA Final Four twice (1989 and 1996), as well as the National Indoor Team Finals (1992). He was a five-time Region VI Coach of the Year honoree and was named SWC Coach of the Year on six separate occasions. He was named the ITCA National Coach of the Year in 1982.
 
Bartzen's teams were ranked nationally 19 times during a 20-year stretch, while making a total of 13 NCCA Championship appearances. He coached David Pate and Karl Richter to the NCAA Doubles National title, and later helped guide Paul Robinson and David Roditi to three NCAA National Doubles titles. He mentored 18 different players that garnered a total of 49 all-conference honors, 16 players that massed 37 total ITA All-American honors and was instrumental in seven former players becoming future TCU Hall of Famers (Esteban Carril, Randy Crawford, Pate, Richter, Robinson, Julius Truelson and Roditi).
 
Roditi, TCU's current head men's tennis coach, was a part of Bartzen's 1996 Final Four team and has led TCU to 250+ wins, five Big 12 regular season titles, three Big 12 tournament titles, 10 NCAA tournament appearances, eight ITA appearances, two ITA Indoor National Championships and five Big 12 Coach of the Year awards. Devin Bowen, who serves as TCU men's tennis assistant coach, was part of four straight NCAA Tournament teams under Bartzen from 1991-94.
 
Bartzen, who passed away on July 10, 2019, is a 1982 Texas Tennis Hall of Fame inductee, as well as a 1992 Texas Sports Hall of Fame inductee. In 1995, while still head coach at TCU, the TCU Board of Trustees named the six stadium courts at Bayard H. Freidman Tennis Center the "Bernard J. "Tut" Bartzen Varsity Tennis Courts.
 
Bartzen, who was inducted as a Special Contributor, became the first head coach that did not play a sport at TCU to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.