Men's Tennis
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- bmasi@usc.edu
- Phone:
- (213) 740-3829
Brett Masi enters into his seventh season as the head coach at USC, having compiled a 103-49 record in the past six seasons at Troy. Overall he boasts a 286-141 (.670) career record as he enters 2025-26 with the Trojans.
In 2025, Masi led the Trojans to a NCAA Super Regional appearance, after pulling the upset on the No. 6-seeded San Diego in the NCAA Second Round. In USC's inaugural year in the Big Ten Conference, the Trojans finished tied for fourth in the conference with a conference record of 8-5 and an overall record of 16-11. Senior Peter Makk was the first player named to the All-Big Ten first team, as he was picked unanimously and earned ITA All-American status.
In the 2023 season, Masi led the Trojans to their fourth-consecutive Pac-12 championship, finishing off the season as the No. 10 ranked squad in the country with an overall record of 21-8. The Trojans continued their streak of making the NCAA tournament as a team, as well as in the singles and doubles tournaments. The Trojans once again secured Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Year, while three players made the Pac-12 First Team.
In 2021, he collected his 200th career win as a head coach. The 2022 season also saw Masi named Pac-12 Coach of the Year, while the Trojans swept the Pac-12 Player and Doubles Team of the Year awards. In 14 seasons as a head coach, he has carried his teams to 11 NCAA appearances, including USC’s NCAA Round of 16 run in 2021.
A former assistant to USC’s 2009 NCAA Championship team, Masi returned to Troy as the Trojans’ head coach on May 12, 2019. Prior to his return, Masi guided the Texas Tech and San Diego men’s tennis teams to eight NCAA Tournament appearances as head coach at those schools. He also was named conference Coach of the Year during both stints.
In his first season at the helm at USC, Masi helped the Trojans win the 2019 ITA National Team indoor Championship. USC was ranked No. 1 in the nation and held a 13-1 overall record when competition was canceled in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Before coming back to USC, Masi spent four seasons (2016-19) as Texas Tech’s head coach, leading the Red Raiders to a 75-44 overall mark (.630) and three NCAA Tournament berths. His teams posted 18 wins over ITA Top 25 teams, including seven over Top 10 opponents.
He was the Big 12 Co-Coach of the Year in his 2016 debut, as Tech went 28-6 (a school record for victories), won a share of the Big 12 regular season title (the program’s first ever), advanced to the NCAA second round and finished with a program-best No. 11 ITA ranking. He was just the fourth rookie Tech coach in any sport to win a conference championship. That season, the All-American doubles team of Felipe Soares and Hugo Dojas won the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championship (Soares also made All-Big 12 first team). After a 13-15 showing in 2017 when the Red Raiders were runners-up in the Big 12 Tournament for the second consecutive year, Tech was 19-11 in 2018 and 15-12 in 2019, with NCAA first round trips each season.
Before Texas Tech, Masi was San Diego’s head coach for six seasons (2010-15), going 108-47 (.697). The Toreros went to five straight NCAA tourneys (2011-15), won three WCC regular season (2011, 2014-15) and two WCC Tournament (2014-15) championships. He twice was the WCC Coach of the Year (2011, 2015) and three times was the ITA Southwest Region Coach of the Year (2011, 2013, 2015). He produced two WCC Players of the Year (Dean Jackson in 2011 and Uros Petronijevic in 2015), two WCC Freshmen of the Year, 24 All-WCC selections, three WCC All-Academic picks and an ITA Scholar-Athlete.
Masi spent five seasons (2005-2009) as former USC head coach Peter Smith’s assistant at USC, the first as a volunteer. The Trojans advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals in 2007 and 2008 before winning the 2009 NCAA crown. He was named the 2007 and 2008 ITA West Region Assistant Coach of the Year.
Masi began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant for the men’s and women’s programs at Santa Clara in 2003 and 2004.
He also spent time working at the Peter Smith Tennis Academy (2004-09), Martin Luther King High in Riverside, Calif. (2001-02), Cal Poly (2000-01) and IMG Academy-Los Angeles (2000).
Masi was a four-year (1997-2000) letterwinner at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he remains one of the program’s all-time winningest players. He concluded his career with a 60-29 singles record and played among the top three spots of the lineup throughout his career. He climbed as high as No. 38 in the ITA singles rankings in 2000 and notched All-Big West first team honors as a senior.
He was a four-time Ivy League singles and doubles champion at Riverside (Calif.) Poly High School.
Masi graduated from Cal Poly in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in recreation administration. He earned his master’s degree in physical education from Azusa Pacific in 2002.
His father, John, was the head basketball coach at UC Riverside for 26 years (1980-2005), guiding the Highlanders to the NCAA Division II final in 1995 and the Final Four in 1989, then was an assistant at Long Beach State, Cal State San Bernardino and Cal Baptist. John Masi also served as athletic director at UC Riverside from 1992-98.
Masi was born Nov. 2, 1978. He and his wife, Desiree, have two children: son, Jaxson, 15, and daughter, Devyn, 13.
| YEAR | SCHOOL | W | L | Pct. | NCAA FINISH | FINAL RANK |
| 2010 | San Diego | 12 | 9 | .571 | — | No. 61 |
| 2011 | San Diego | 19 | 7 | .731 | NCAA 2nd Round | No. 29 |
| 2012 | San Diego | 18 | 9 | .667 | NCAA 2nd Round | No. 26 |
| 2013 | San Diego | 18 | 10 | .643 | NCAA 2nd Round | No. 40 |
| 2014 | San Diego | 18 | 8 | .692 | NCAA 2nd Round | No. 31 |
| 2015 | San Diego | 23 | 5 | .821 | NCAA 1st Round | No. 22 |
| 2016 | Texas Tech | 28 | 6 | .824 | NCAA 2nd Round | No. 11 |
| 2017 | Texas Tech | 13 | 15 | .464 | — | No. 32 |
| 2018 | Texas Tech | 19 | 11 | .633 | NCAA 1st Round | No. 36 |
| 2019 | Texas Tech | 15 | 12 | .556 | NCAA 1st Round | No. 27 |
| 2020 | USC | 13* | 1* | .926* | Not held* | No. 1* |
| 2021 | USC | 23 | 7 | .767 | NCAA Quarterfinals | No. 10 |
| 2022 | USC | 23 | 6 | .793 | NCAA Round of 16 | No. 13 |
| 2023 | USC | 21 | 8 | .724 | NCAA Round of 16 | No. 10 |
| CAREER RECORD | 263 | 114 | .698 | 14 seasons | ||
| USC | 80 | 22 | .784 | 3 seasons | ||
| Texas Tech | 75 | 44 | .630 | 4 seasons | ||
| San Diego | 108 | 48 | .692 | 6 seasons | ||
* 2019-20 competition was suspended on May 12, 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and remaining scheduled competition and postseason play was canceled.
