Coach Joe Harding started coaching tennis at El Diamante in the fall of 2002 with the opening of the school. Earlier, he coached tennis and volleyball for 7 years at Avenal, Riverdale and Hanford high schools. Miner tennis teams have won 6 league titles and been in 7 Section finals, winning four. Additionally, his teams have been recognized for Academic Excellence multiple times at the Section and State levels. Overall, the Miners are 488-261 against Central Section opponents through the end of 2023. Individually, Miners have won Section Championships 4 times and runners-up on 3 occasions. Miners have advanced to the Sweet 16 in singles and doubles an additional 10 occasions.
Coach Harding was selected as Visalia-Times Delta’s Tulare County Tennis Coach of the Year twice and the Fresno Bee’s Central Section Tennis Coach of the Year once. He graduated from Lemoore High School, earning 3 varsity letters in tennis.  Coach Harding graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he participated in intramural tennis, leading his Battalion to the Brigade championship during his senior year. As a junior naval officer after graduation, Harding won two base championships at the Submarine Base in Groton, Connecticut and finished as high as 4^th in the subsequent Navy Regional Tennis Tournaments. He completed 30 years of Active and Reserve Naval Service before retiring in 2013.
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