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Head Coach
Drawing the NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championships for the second time in five years in 2008 is just the latest example of the activism and dedication regularly shown by Bates men's and women's tennis coach Paul Gastonguay. Twice honored as the NESCAC Coach of the Year, Gastonguay has led the men’s program to one of the longest periods of sustained excellence of any sport in school history. The team has qualified for the NESCAC tournament each year since it began in 2001 and also qualified for the NCAA Championships for seven straight years beginning in 2000. In 2006 Gastonguay's top player at Bates to date, Will Boe-Wiegaard '06, won the NCAA Division III Men's Singles Championship despite being unseeded. In 2002, Gastonguay was selected as the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division III Northeast Region Men’s Coach of the Year. Gastonguay became the head tennis coach of the Bates women’s program in 2001, and he was named NESCAC Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year in 2003. Gastonguay was inducted into the Lewiston-Auburn Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. A Lewiston native, Gastonguay graduated from Bates in 1989 as the winningest tennis player in Bates College history, amassing a combined record of 149-41 in his four-year playing career. He set three of the top four single-season marks in school history and became the Bobcats' second-ever All-American in tennis in his senior season, during which he was a finalist for the NCAA Arthur Ashe Award. Gastonguay competed professionally in International Tennis Federation Satellite, Challenger and ATP Tour events, where he achieved world rankings in singles and doubles. He served as a practice partner for former ATP Tour top ranked player Ivan Lendl during the last four years of his career. |
