Daniel Llarenas joined the Nevada men’s tennis team as a volunteer assistant after four years in the same position at Pacific.
Llarenas coached 2016 ITA Northwest Region Player of the Year Sem Verbeek during his first two years at Pacific. In those two years, the Tigers have won nine All-Academic honors, seven All-WCC winners, and the 2016 WCC Player of the Year.
Before coming to Pacific, Daniel was most recently coaching in Guam, where he led John F. Kennedy High School to the boys 2013 High School Championship. Llarenas played at the University of Hawai'i for three years, graduating in 2011. He was a part of two Hawai'i teams that won the Western Athletic Conference championship (2009 and 2010). He has been nominated and played 13 Davis Cup times for Pacific Oceania and currently has a 13-3 record. He has played Lebanon, Philippines, Iran, UAE, Vietnam, Cambodia, Oman, Qatar, Iraq, Jordan, Bangladesh and Kyrgyzstan. He also owned and operated a tennis facility focusing on developing Guam's youth in tennis.
Llarenas has a Master's in education with a concentration in counseling psychology. He was a part of the best doubles team in Pacific Oceania's Davis Cup history, going 11-2 with his partner, Brett Baudinet.
