Galloway, N.J. – Stockton University head women's tennis coach Harry Silverstein has retired after 11 years leading the Osprey program and more than 40 years as a tennis coach overall. Silverstein, just the second coach in the 24-year history of Stockton Women's Tennis, compiled a record of 97-50 (.660 winning percentage).
 
"I am happy to end my career at Stockton after working under three athletic directors. It was a great run," Silverstein said. His teams finished with a winning record in every one of his 11 seasons and reached double figures in victories four times, highlighted by a 12-win campaign in 2022-23.
 
Silverstein was recognized by his fellow NJAC coaches three times. He received the NJAC Coach of the Year award twice (2016, 2019) before he and longtime assistant Jack Sorensen were voted NJAC Coaching Staff of the Year this spring. Sorensen also is retiring after 10 years at Stockton preceded by 15 years as the girls tennis coach at Atlantic City High School.
 
Silverstein's teams finished second in the conference standings behind perennial champ TCNJ five times and were the runner-up to the Lions three times in the five years that the NJAC Tournament has been held since its inception in 2021. Silverstein's players earned 17 NJAC all-conference honors in singles and nine in doubles.
 
Prior to his arrival at Stockton in 2014, Silverstein was an accomplished tennis coach on the scholastic level during three decades at Vineland High School. He coached the Vineland girls team from 1984 to 2014, amassing 465 wins, and also helmed the boys squad from 2002-14, where he accumulated 172 more victories for a whopping 628 career wins overall.
 
Silverstein won a total of six Cape Atlantic League championships, four girls and two boys. His teams also captured nine division titles, seven girls and two boys, plus the 2005 South Jersey Group IV girls crown. Silverstein was named Vineland Daily Journal Coach of the Year five times and 2006-07 New Jersey Boys Tennis Coach of the Year by the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association.
 
Silverstein was inducted into the New Jersey Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1998 and New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Hall of Fame in 2000.