Cassie Shultz was hired as the head coach of the Butler women’s tennis program in August of 2024.
“Cassie’s enthusiasm for our program has been on display the last few years as she has worked with our team,” said Butler Vice President/Director of Athletics Grant Leiendecker. “Her coaching acumen coupled with her experience as a high-level collegiate player will be extremely beneficial to our student-athletes. She is committed to developing young women on and off the court, and we are very excited for the future of our program under Cassie’s leadership.”
At various times since 2018, Shultz has served as an assistant coach at Butler. That stretch of time spans the program’s three most recent head coaches. Shultz was working with Butler student-athletes while balancing a nursing career and her family which includes four children.
Before joining with the Butler program, Shultz served as the assistant tennis coach for Heritage Christian High School under head coach Jaclyn Baldwin. Shultz was also a tennis professional at the Indianapolis Racquet Club. Working as the tournament coordinator and women’s team coach, Shultz coached and educated players on stroke development while also directing and developing the Cardio Tennis program.
In her collegiate years, Shultz started as a member of the Texas A&M University World Team Tennis championship team, finishing in the top 16 at the ITA regional tournament in both singles and doubles. She earned the Aggie Heart Award as a freshman for showing heart and unrelenting effort for her team. After transferring to the University of Iowa, Shultz was a quarterfinalist at the ITA regional tournament, and achieved an NCAA national ranking as high as 70 in singles and 48 in doubles.
Prior to college, Shultz held a national title as Copper Bowl Champion, was an Iowa state singles and mixed doubles champion, and was the Missouri Valley sectional champion (comprised of five states). As a junior, she finished in the top 16 at the National Clay Court Championship held in Florida. Internationally, Shultz made it to the quarterfinals of the ITF International Grass Court Championships held in Philadelphia in 1998, where she solidified a top 500 world ranking.
Shultz’s husband, Jim, is a Butler graduate. Her father-in-law, Jerry Shultz, is a football letterwinner who is also a member of the Butler Athletics Hall of Fame after leading the Bulldogs to three consecutive conference championships during the early 1960s. Cassie and Jim are the proud parents of four children: Isaiah, Eliana, Mady, and Jett.
