Northwestern State University of Louisiana Women's Tennis

DuBois is one of the most successful tennis coaches in Southland Conference history and has a track record of developing nationally competitive teams and players who succeed on the court and in the classroom. As NSUs head coach from 1989-94 and from 2006-2014, he led the Lady Demons to a combined six Southland Conference regular season and tournament titles. In 24 seasons of collegiate coaching, DuBois has led Northwestern State and Texas-Arlington to 13 Southland Conference titles.   He returned to NSU in 2003 as the manager of the ultra-modern WRAC in 2003 and started his second stint as head coach before the 2006 fall season. DuBois knocked the rust off the NSU tennis program, guiding NSU to a 10-10 mark after the Lady Demons had just one winning season from 1999-2006 with no championships. The Lady Demons won the SLC regular season and conference titles in 2010, starting a string of five total titles in four different seasons with three NCAA Tournament appearances. He recruited current head coach Olga Bazhanova (2009-12) as a player, guided her as she assumed assistant coaching duties and eventually head coaching duties when DuBois shifted his focus to the WRAC position and his family. The 2010 team recorded a program record 20 wins (20-2), winning percentage (.909) and the programs first NCAA Tournament trip. DuBois coached Martina Rubesova, who in 2010, became the first Lady Demon player to be invited and participate in the 64-woman NCAA Singles Championship, and was the Southland Conference Newcomer of the Year and the All-Louisiana Player of the Year. He guided Northwestern State to another Southland Conference tournament title in 2013 and the school's second appearance in the NCAA Team Tournament, posting an overall 14-8 record while placing four members on the All-Southland teams. The 2014 Lady Demons matched the 20-win record (20-6) with another SLC tournament title. Early in his coaching career, DuBois guided the 1994 Lady Demons to the SLC Championship before he picked up 11 more SLC crowns and five NCAA Tournament appearances coaching at Texas-Arlington. During his first stint at NSU, his teams won several Intercollegiate Tennis Association awards for their academic achievement. He recruited Lludmila Pavlov, who rose as high as No. 33 in the ITA singles rankings, and the doubles team of Karen Bacon and Emily Nichols, who rose as high as No. 20 in the ITA doubles rankings. That trio was the cornerstone of the Lady Demons 1994 SLC championship.   Moving to UTA, he took over a mens program which had never won an SLC title but went on to win six under his guidance before he was named director of tennis in 1997, taking on additional head coaching duties for the womens program. In his third season in that capacity, the UTA women launched a 46-match winning streak in conference play, winning four SLC championships and making three NCAA appearances. He coached Andy Leber, who was the NCAA Division I Senior National Player of the Year in 2002. Leber had a singles record of 44-3, was an NCAA All-American, and was ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation in Division I singles. His overall coaching record is 347-207, including a 162-40 mark in conference matches. DuBois has been named SLC Coach of the Year nine times and his teams have won nine SLC Tournament championships to go with the 13 regular-season titles. He has coached more than 100 athletes who have earned first or second-team All-SLC honors, including 10 SLC Tennis Athletes of the Year. DuBois has also seen 10 of his teams honored by the ITA for their outstanding academic achievements, posting a cumulative team grade point average of 3.2 or better.   A Kingston, N.Y. native, DuBois was an outstanding tennis player at St. Bonaventure University in the Atlantic 10 Conference where he received his bachelors degree in health and physical education. DuBois then received his graduate degree in sports administration from Kent State in Ohio. DuBois wife, Lise, is an instructor in the department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Northwestern. They have one daughter, Mazie Catherine, who attends St. Marys High School.