SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Shippensburg University director of athletics Jeff Michaels has announced that Dr. Alison Feeney has been hired as the head women's tennis coach at Shippensburg University.
 
Feeney served as the team's faculty-athletic mentor (FAM) during the 2019-20 season after serving as one of two FAMs for the football team in the 2018 season.
 
As an active adult-league competitor, Feeney is rated at 4.5 per the National Tennis Rating Program (NTRP) maintained by the United States Tennis Association (USTA). Feeney is a regular singles player in a summer women's league and a regular mixed doubles player in winter leagues. She has competed in postseason regional and district tournament competition spanning multiple states.
 
Feeney is in her third year as a full professor and her 23rd year overall as a professor of geography and earth science at Shippensburg University. She teaches general education courses in the department (World Geography and the Geography of the United States and Canada) and, as a mapping specialist, regularly instructs courses in geographic information systems and cartography. Her faculty research is centered in the area of geographic, historic, cultural heritage and economic impacts of craft beverages.
 
Feeney graduated from UConn in 1992 as a double-major in history in geography. She later earned a master's degree in geography from Portland State in 1995 before receiving her PhD in geography from Michigan State in 2001.