Justin Greenlee joined Lafayette in the fall of 2022 as an assistant coach for the men's and women's tennis teams. He spent the 2021-22 season at Kenyon College in Ohio, where he held a joint appointment between athletics and academics as an assistant tennis coach and professor in their art history department. The women's squad finished the season ranked #27 and the men #20 in the Division III National Tennis Rankings.
Prior to coaching at Lafayette, Greenlee served as a tennis instructor for the Brentwood Swim & Tennis Club at Wildwood (Tenn.) and taught at tennis academies hosted by Oberlin College (Ohio), The Lawrenceville School (N.J.), and the United States Military Academy at West Point (N.Y.). The Cleveland, Ohio native has sport-specific knowledge and training dating back to 2002.
Alongside his work as a tennis coach, Greenlee taught art history at colleges and universities including Muhlenberg College, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Carroll University, among others. He continues to teach art history courses on topics ranging from prehistory to the present.
As a student-athlete, Greenlee played on teams that made the DIII NCAA Team Tournament in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, with end-of-year national team rankings in the Top 20 and the Top 10. He played as high as #1 doubles and #6 singles. His favorite memory as a player comes from 2006, when he clinched an early-morning win over a ranked University of Chicago team as the last man on court. His favorite memory as a coach comes from 2022, when he helped Kenyon stand-out
Thomas Kallarakal through a 2-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-4 win at No. 3 singles and a team victory over Denison University.
Greenlee’s education includes a bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College (2009), a master’s degree from the University of Alabama (2014), and a doctorate in art history from the University of Virginia (2020). He lives in Easton with his partner, Jessie (another Dr. Greenlee, who teaches in the psychology department at Lafayette), and loves idioms.
