Bob Salt begins his third year as a coach for the Blue Devils, his second as an assistant. Salt stepped in as the head coach during the 2007 season. In 2007, the Blue Devils finished with a 10-5 overall record and finished tied for third in the WIAC dual standings.

Salt, who has been an instructor at Stout since 1987 with the Human Development and Family Studies program, has been either a tennis pro, high school coach or tennis instructor since his collegiate days at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine, where was a four-year varsity player. Salt was head coach at Orono, Maine, High School, and Central Catholic High School in Lafayette, Ind., and an assistant coach at Bangor, Maine, High School. In addition to providing private lessons for the past 25-plus years, Salt has been a tennis pro at Lafayette Tennis Club in Lafayette, Ind., at Elk's Country Club in West Lafayette, Ind., and Blue Hill Country Club in Blue Hill, Maine.

Salt holds bachelor and masters degrees from the University of Maine. Salt earned undergraduate degrees in Political Science and Broadcasting/Film and masters in Child Development and Family Relations. He attended Purdue for his doctorate in Child Development and Family Studies. Named one of UW-Stout's Outstanding Teachers of the Year in 2005, Salt was a Dahlgren Professor in 2002-04 and received Stout's School of Home Economics Teaching Excellence Award in 1992. Salt was the program director of the Human Development and Family Studies Program from 1992-99, the department chair of Human Development and Family Studies and an associate dean for the College of Human Development from January 2006 to August 2007.

Salt, an avid Boston Red Sox fan, and his wife, Ann, a Menomonie native, reside in Menomonie and are the parents of two high school age children, Josh and Emily.