After serving as a co-head coach for the Lakeland women’s tennis program in its 2020-21 spring season, Pete Barth takes over as head coach for the Muskies for the 2021-22 school year.
Barth joined Rick Mobley in serving as co-head coaches in the 2021 spring season, after the regular fall women’s tennis season was postponed to the spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The two coached Lakeland to a 2-6 record, with the Muskies recording convincing Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference wins over Alverno and Dominican (Ill.).
Barth adds to coaching duties at Lakeland that also include coaching the Muskies’ men’s and women’s cross country and track & field teams. He enters 2021-22 in his fifth year coaching those programs, where he has overseen improvement in roster numbers and fielding full teams in many NACC Championship events for the first time since Lakeland joined the conference in 2006.
Before taking over head coaching duties at Lakeland, Barth was previously an assistant with the Lakeland women's soccer team in the 2016 season. He also has experience coaching with select-level girls soccer in the Sheboygan area, including coaching an eighth-grade team of which the core played on the United States' youth level team in the Donosti Cup international competition in Spain. A cross country and track & field athlete in high school, he also has competed in half-marathons, triathlons and other competitive races.
