Deepti Sanjai returned to her alma mater in 2008 as assistant coach of the men’s and women’s tennis teams after an undergraduate career marked by excellence in academics and athletics.
A magna cum laude graduate of NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College in 2006 with a major in biology, she expects to receive her master’s degree from Purdue University in May 2009 with a major in horticulture. She was an undergraduate research assistant at Rutgers-Newark and a research assistant at Purdue.
She excelled in two sports at NJIT, serving as a two-year captain and three-time Most Valuable Player of both the women’s tennis and women’s fencing teams. She was ITA Division II Regional B singles champion as a senior in tennis and she was a two-time NCAA regional qualifier in fencing.
Not surprisingly, she won numerous scholar-athlete awards associated with her two sports.
Born in New Delhi, India, Deepti was raised in Malaysia, where she was one of the top-ranked junior players before coming to NJIT.
Her father is a tennis coach, having mentored some of the top junior players in India, and her mother teaches math in the Newark Public Schools.
