Johns Hopkins University Athletics

Updated: June 2025
First Day at Johns Hopkins: July 12, 2021

Brendan Kincaid was named the head coach of the Johns Hopkins men's tennis team in July 2021 and turned in one of the successful first seasons in program history. 

Kincaid led Johns Hopkins to a 16-8 record and a trip to the NCAA Quarterfinals in 2025. In their first season as an independent, the Blue Jays earned an at-large berth to the tournament. Dylan Blenkiron and Allen Gong earned ITA All-America honors in doubles, while Chakor Rajendra earned the honor in singles. Rajendra, Blenkiron and Daniel Ardila earned bids to the NCAA Championships for doubles and singles. Rajendra advanced to the quarterfinals. 

Johns Hopkins went 15-7 and advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2024. Six Blue Jays combined to earn nine All-Centennial Conference honors, including Ardila, who earned First Team All-CC honors in both singles and doubles. 

In 2023, Kincaid led the Blue Jays to a 19-5 record and a berth in the NCAA Sweet 16. He also coached James and Thomas Yu to the semifinals of the NCAA Doubles Championship, as well as Thomas Yu to the semifinals of the NCAA Singles Championship. 

In his first season, Kincaid guided Hopkins to a 19-2 record, including nine wins over ranked teams. Among those nine wins, Hopkins beat defending national champion, Emory, 6-3. JHU won its record 16th Centennial Conference title and advanced to the NCAA Second Round. In addition, Kincaid coached Vishnu Joshi to the title match of the NCAA Singles Championship. 

Kincaid came to Homewood after three years as the head men’s tennis coach at Haverford College. In his first season with the Fords, he led the team to a 13-8 record, including 7-2 in the Centennial Conference (CC), a berth in the conference semifinals and was named the CC Coach of the Year. His team was 1-2 when the 2020 season was cancelled and went 1-0 in a shortened 2021 season. Kincaid coached the 2018 CC Player of the Year as well as seven all-conference selections. His 2020 and 2021 recruiting classes were ranked in the top-25 in the nation by tennisrecruiting.net.
 
Prior to Haverford, Kincaid spent six seasons as the head men’s tennis coach at Goucher College, where he quickly turned the Gophers’ program around. Goucher had won just two matches the year before his arrival and had never won a conference title. In his third season (2015), he guided the Gophers to the Landmark Conference championship match and their first double-digit win season since 2004. In 2016, Kincaid led Goucher to the Landmark Championship as well as the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance and 20-win season. The Gophers added Landmark titles and NCAA Tournament trips in 2017 and 2018.
 
The winningest coach in Goucher history, Kincaid turned in an 86-53 (.618) record with the Gophers, including a 73-27 (.730) mark in his final four seasons. He earned Landmark Coach of the Year honors in 2016 and coached two conference Players of the Year, three Rookies of the Year and 33 all-conference selections.
 
Kincaid began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Salisbury University, his alma mater, in August 2008. In four seasons with the Sea Gulls, he helped the men’s and women’s programs to a combined 107 wins, as well as eight Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) title match appearances. He coached a total of 75 All-CAC selections as well as three Rookies of the Year and the 2009 Player of the Year. In addition, Kincaid mentored an All-American doubles pair and was named the ITA Atlantic South and National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2010.
 
Kincaid was a decorated player for Salisbury and played number one singles and doubles in each of his four seasons. He was a three-time First Team All-CAC selection in singles and doubles and was named the 2005 CAC Rookie of the Year. As a senior, he earned All-America honors in singles and was selected the ITA Atlantic South Senior Player of the Year. Kincaid was ranked as high as 20^th in the nation in singles and 17^th in doubles in his career. He graduated from Salisbury in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. At the time of his graduation, he was the program’s all-time wins leader in singles and doubles with more than 100 combined wins.