Women's Tennis
Lumpkin Robinson, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Lumpkin Robinson
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- lumpkin@uoregon.edu
Former NCAA National Champion and WTA Pro Elizabeth Lumpkin Robinson enters her seventh season on the Oregon coaching staff in 2023-24. She came to Eugene in July of 2017 as an assistant coach, and was elevated to associate head coach following the end of the 2020-21 season.
Lumpkin Robinson has been a part of five winning seasons and two NCAA Tournament appearances in her six years with the Ducks, and has helped guide a pair of players to appearances in the NCAA Singles Championship, three players to All-Pac-12 selections and one to All-America status.
In her first year on staff in 2018, Lumpkin Robinson helped lead Oregon to an NCAA Tournament second round appearance. That year, the Ducks went 16-10 overall and knocked off Tennessee in the opening round of the tournament, marking just the fourth time that an Oregon team won a match in the NCAA postseason.
In the shortened 2020 season, the Ducks went 8-6 and surpassed their win total from the 2019 season, when they went 7-16. Lumpkin Robinson helped Oregon continue to build in 2021, as the Ducks finished the season ranked No. 46 by the ITA at 13-8 overall, highlighted by the first win in program history over Stanford and two more ranked wins over Colorado and USC.
Both All-Pac-12 selections Lumpkin Robinson has helped coach have made the NCAA Singles Championship, with Alyssa Tobita earning a bid in 2018 and Janice Tjen qualifying in 2021. Tjen turned in the deepest run of any player in program history, reaching the national semifinals and ending the year at No. 6 in the ITA Singles Rankings.
In 2022, Lumpkin Robinson helped the Ducks back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2018 – her first year on staff – as UO went 15-9 and played Michigan in the first round. The Ducks displayed lots of depth, as five players reached the 15-win mark in singles play, led by freshman and second-team All-Pac-12 selection Sophie Luescher.
The 2023 spring season saw Oregon turn in its fourth straight winning season, as the Ducks went 11-10 (4-6 Pac-12) and reached an ITA national ranking as high as No. 40. UO won four of its first five Pac-12 matches and collected ranked wins over No. 43 Arizona (4-1) and No. 50 Utah (4-2). Uxia Martinez Moral paced the Ducks with a 12-3 singles record while teaming up with Sophie Luescher at the top doubles spot, as the pair was ranked as high as 77th in the nation. Martinez Moral went on to earn All-Pac-12 honorable mention accolades and teammate Ares Teixido Garcia was voted Pac-12 Player of the Week - the program's seventh conference weekly award winner and first since the 2021 season (Janice Tjen).
Lumpkin Robinson came to Oregon after spending five-plus years competing in the WTA and ITF pro tennis circuits.
During her professional career she accumulated six pro circuit doubles titles and one singles title earning a career high world ranking of 280 in doubles play.
Before turning pro, Lumpkin Robinson was a member of the UCLA women’s tennis team for four years (2004-08) captaining the Bruins to their first ever NCAA Championship in 2008 while posting a 24-1 record in singles play. During that same season Robinson was named the ITA/Arthur Ashe Leadership Award winner for the west region.
A three-time member of the Pac-10 All-Academic Team, she finished her collegiate career with a 67-13 singles record and is currently ranked eighth on the UCLA all-time overall wins list with 101 victories.
Originally from Naperville, Ill. Lumpkin Robinson is the first and only girl in Illinois state history to win four straight state championships and went on to represent the United States in the Junior Fed Cup in La Baule, France.
She graduated from UCLA in 2009 with a degree in Communication Studies.
COACHING HISTORY
Lumpkin Robinson has been a part of five winning seasons and two NCAA Tournament appearances in her six years with the Ducks, and has helped guide a pair of players to appearances in the NCAA Singles Championship, three players to All-Pac-12 selections and one to All-America status.
In her first year on staff in 2018, Lumpkin Robinson helped lead Oregon to an NCAA Tournament second round appearance. That year, the Ducks went 16-10 overall and knocked off Tennessee in the opening round of the tournament, marking just the fourth time that an Oregon team won a match in the NCAA postseason.
In the shortened 2020 season, the Ducks went 8-6 and surpassed their win total from the 2019 season, when they went 7-16. Lumpkin Robinson helped Oregon continue to build in 2021, as the Ducks finished the season ranked No. 46 by the ITA at 13-8 overall, highlighted by the first win in program history over Stanford and two more ranked wins over Colorado and USC.
Both All-Pac-12 selections Lumpkin Robinson has helped coach have made the NCAA Singles Championship, with Alyssa Tobita earning a bid in 2018 and Janice Tjen qualifying in 2021. Tjen turned in the deepest run of any player in program history, reaching the national semifinals and ending the year at No. 6 in the ITA Singles Rankings.
In 2022, Lumpkin Robinson helped the Ducks back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2018 – her first year on staff – as UO went 15-9 and played Michigan in the first round. The Ducks displayed lots of depth, as five players reached the 15-win mark in singles play, led by freshman and second-team All-Pac-12 selection Sophie Luescher.
The 2023 spring season saw Oregon turn in its fourth straight winning season, as the Ducks went 11-10 (4-6 Pac-12) and reached an ITA national ranking as high as No. 40. UO won four of its first five Pac-12 matches and collected ranked wins over No. 43 Arizona (4-1) and No. 50 Utah (4-2). Uxia Martinez Moral paced the Ducks with a 12-3 singles record while teaming up with Sophie Luescher at the top doubles spot, as the pair was ranked as high as 77th in the nation. Martinez Moral went on to earn All-Pac-12 honorable mention accolades and teammate Ares Teixido Garcia was voted Pac-12 Player of the Week - the program's seventh conference weekly award winner and first since the 2021 season (Janice Tjen).
Lumpkin Robinson came to Oregon after spending five-plus years competing in the WTA and ITF pro tennis circuits.
During her professional career she accumulated six pro circuit doubles titles and one singles title earning a career high world ranking of 280 in doubles play.
Before turning pro, Lumpkin Robinson was a member of the UCLA women’s tennis team for four years (2004-08) captaining the Bruins to their first ever NCAA Championship in 2008 while posting a 24-1 record in singles play. During that same season Robinson was named the ITA/Arthur Ashe Leadership Award winner for the west region.
A three-time member of the Pac-10 All-Academic Team, she finished her collegiate career with a 67-13 singles record and is currently ranked eighth on the UCLA all-time overall wins list with 101 victories.
Originally from Naperville, Ill. Lumpkin Robinson is the first and only girl in Illinois state history to win four straight state championships and went on to represent the United States in the Junior Fed Cup in La Baule, France.
She graduated from UCLA in 2009 with a degree in Communication Studies.
COACHING HISTORY
| Year(s) | School | Position |
| 2021-present | Oregon | Associate Head Coach |
| 2017-21 | Oregon | Assistant Coach |
Karin Young: "It's all so new and exciting"
Tuesday, May 03
Courtney Nagle: "I'm super excited for this team."
Tuesday, May 03
Sophie Luescher: "It's a really nice feeling."
Tuesday, May 03
Petra Salko Life after University of Oregon
Monday, December 30
