Southern New Hampshire University Women's Tennis

Coache was named head women's tennis coach at Southern New Hampshire University in August, 2007.  In March 2010, Coache took the reins of the men's program.  He has transformed both programs into top programs both in the Northeast-10 and the East Region while garnering six Northeast-10 Coach of the Year honors and a trio of ITA East Region Coach of the Year awards. In Coache's first eight seasons with the women's program, he has compiled a 118-45 (.724) record, guided the Penmen to four Northeast-10 regular season championships (2010-13), three NE-10 tournament championships (2010, 2011, 2012) and five straight NCAA Tournament appearances from 2009-13 while being named Northeast-10 Coach of the Year four times and ITA East Region Coach of the Year twice. The Penmen have also had the Northeast-10 Player of the Year five times, with Amber Chandronnait garnering the award in 2009, 2010 and 2011 before Alena Mukdaprakorn grabbed the honor in 2012 and 2013. In his first five full seasons with the men's program he has guided SNHU to four consecutive NCAA appearances, the programs first-ever NE-10 tournament championship in 2014, three appearances in the Northeast-10 championship final and a share of the leagues regular season crown in 2010-11.  Coache has twice been named the Northeast-10 Coach of the Year (2011, 2013), while he also received ITA regional Coach of the Year honors in 2011.  In 2013-14 the Penmen went 18-6, setting a single-season school record for victories, and his overall record with the SNHU men is 58-40 (.592).  Mitch Dobek was named the NE-10 Player of the Year in 2011, with Juan Arango-Campo named NE-10 Rookie of the Year that same season.  Prior to his arrival at SNHU, Coache served as a high school tennis coach for the previous 10 years, reaching the playoffs in nine of those years, which included one state championship and five state semifinal appearances.  In the state championship year he was named New Hampshire's "Coach of the Year". Coache also has extensive experience as a player, as in 1992 he earned the No. 1 ranking in New England in doubles.  Coache currently plays USTA team tennis where for the past eight years his teams earned trips to the regional championships and two trips to the national tournament in Hawaii and Palm Springs.  He played his college tennis at Springfield College from 1976-80, where he was a Health Recreation and Physical Education major. Coache has obtained United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) Elite Professional status as a certified teaching professional as well as USPTA certified Wheelchair tennis instructor certification. In December 2015, Coache also completed Competitive Coaching Course Training and Pro Coaching Course Training, taught by Emilio Sanchez Vicario at the Academia Sanchez-Casal Tennis Academy. Coache currently owns and operates Coache Tennis Academy, a high performance tennis program in central New Hampshire.  He has three sons and two grandchildren and resides in Bow, N.H. with wife Sheila.