Adam Spring begins his eighth season as the head men's tennis coach at Rhode Island College. He is also RIC's head women's tennis coach, a position he has held since 2012.
He has posted a 60-21 (.741) record in seven seasons as the Anchormen's head coach.
Spring and Anchormen went 12-2 overall and 6-0 (first place) in the Little East in 2024. RIC captured the program's first-ever Little East Regular Season Championship, won the LEC Tournament for the fifth time in program history and the first since 1995 and qualified for the NCAA Div. III Men's Tennis Championship for the first time in program history.
The Anchormen went 9-5 overall and 5-1 (second place) in the Little East in 2023. The Anchormen posted their fifth straight winning season and reached the finals of the 2023 Little East Men's Tennis Championship. Spring was named the Little East Men's Tennis Coach of the Year for the second time in his career.
Spring led the club to a 10-3 overall record and a 4-2 (second place tie) mark in the Little East in 2022. RIC notched its fourth straight winning season and reached double digits in wins in three of the last four campaigns. It also marked the fourth consecutive season that the Anchormen have reached the semifinals of the LEC Championship.
Spring and the Anchormen navigated a very difficult 2020-21 season due to Covid-19. Despite tremendous pressures and constraints, RIC posted a 6-1 overall record, finished the regular season with an undefeated 6-0 mark and reached the finals of the Little East Championship where they lost a hard-fought, 5-4, match to Western Connecticut.
The Anchormen did not compete in 2020 due to the Coronavirus outbreak. In 2019, he led RIC to a 10-5 overall record. The Anchormen reached the semifinals of the Little East Men's Tennis Championship for the second straight season.
In 2018, Spring guided the Anchormen to a 13-5 record, establishing a new school record for wins in a season. RIC finished with a 3-3 mark in the Little East Conference and reached the semifinals of the conference championship.
Spring spent 13 years as the head coach for the men’s tennis team at Johnson & Wales, posting a 102-83 mark during his career, then spent two years as the associate head coach. The Wildcats captured the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Championship in 2008 and Spring took the team to four GNAC Tournament Finals during his career at JWU. He was named the GNAC Coach of the Year multiple times at Johnson & Wales.
He has been teaching and coaching tennis in Rhode Island since 1991, serving both as a head and an assistant coach.
Spring was the head girls’ tennis coach at Smithfield High School for 14 seasons from 1998-12. He guided the Sentinels to the Rhode Island Div. II Championship three times (2011, ’10, ’09), while capturing the Div. III title twice (2007, ’06). Spring was the head boys' coach at Smithfield High School in 2001 an 2002, taking the Sentinels to the R.I. Div. II State Championship Match in his second campaign. He compiled a 25-8 record in two years of work. Spring also coached at Chariho High School from 1991-94, starting the Chargers first girls’ program and serving as an assistant coach for the boys’ squad.
In addition to his coaching duties, Spring is entering his 29th year as a teacher at Smithfield High School.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Rhode Island in 1994. Spring earned his master’s degree in teaching from Johnson & Wales in 1997. He resides in Charlestown, Rhode Island.
