One of the most successful tennis coaches in Southland Conference history, Patric DuBois added the title of deputy athletic director for Special Projects to his resume in June 2021 while continuing in his role as the director of NSU’s Dr. Randall J. Webb Wellness, Activity and Recreation Center (WRAC).
DuBois is no stranger to wearing multiple hats as he was formerly NSU’s head tennis coach/director of wellness & recreation/assistant athletic director for special projects. In his newest role, DuBois’ duties will include overseeing internal operations in the athletic department including facilities & event management, strength & conditioning, equipment operations, and student athlete development. DuBois will continue to assist and be a liaison with the Lady Demon tennis program.
DuBois was instrumental in transitioning an intramural program in 2005 into a department, adding wellness, fitness, club sports, e-sports, and informal recreation, to create one of the strongest collegiate recreation departments in the state of Louisiana. In 2005, renovations were completed to open the Randall J. Webb Wellness & Recreation Center to house this programming. The facility doubled in size to the current 90,000 square feet.
In his role as assistant athletic director, DuBois assisted in several projects to enhance various areas in Prather Coliseum, Athletic Field House, and all outdoor facilities in the NSU athletic footprint. DuBois has played a prominent role in the execution of the biannual Athletic Scholarship Auction which has helped raise funds to assist fully funding athletic scholarships for deserving Division I athletes.
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 NSU’s head coach from 1989-94, 2006-2014 and 2018-20, he led the Lady Demons to a combined three Southland Conference Tournament titles, five regular season titles and two NCAA Tournament appearances.
As an assistant coach in 2022, NSU won the SLC regular season title and went 15-5 overall and made the SLC Tournament once again in 2023.
In 26 seasons of collegiate head coaching, DuBois led Northwestern State and Texas-Arlington (1995-2003) to 13 Southland Conference regular season titles, 11 Southland Conference Tournament titles, and nine NCAA Tournament appearances.
His career record sits at 425-240, including a staggering 206-52 mark in Southland Conference play. Before he stepped down, he was 20
th in career wins nationally among all active Division I women’s tennis coaches.
DuBois began his coaching career at NSU in 1989. The Lady Demons consistently improved in the standings each year, always in the top 4 teams of the SLC before winning the SLC Championship in 1994.
Moving to UTA, he took over a men’s program which had never won a SLC title but went on to win six Southland Conference regular season titles, five Southland Conference Tournament Championship titles, and make five NCAA Tournament appearances. DuBois was named Director of Tennis in 1997, taking on additional head coaching duties for the UTA women’s program.
In his third season in that capacity, the UTA women launched a 46-match winning streak in conference play, winning four SLC Regular season titles, four SLC Tournament championships, and making three NCAA appearances.
He coached Andy Leber, who was the NCAA Division I Senior Male 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.
DuBois returned to NSU in 2003 as director of the Wellness & Recreation Center and started his second stint as head coach for the 2006-2007 season.
DuBois knocked the rust off the NSU tennis program, guiding NSU to a 10-10 mark in his first year 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.
The 2010 team recorded a program records in wins (20, 20-2) and winning percentage (.909), earning the program’s 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.
DuBois 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 their 20-win record (20-6) with another SLC tournament title and NCAA appearance.
Returning as head coach in 2018, he led the Lady Demons to their fifth conference tournament championship appearance in the 10 years he has been at NSU when there has been a conference tournament. He coached SLC Player of the Year Polina Mutel, who finished the season 17-6 in singles and 17-2 in doubles. At the end of the fall 2018 season, freshman Maria Skyba finished ranked No. 114 by the ITA, becoming the first Lady Demon to be ranked in singles since Rubesova in 2010.
His overall coaching record is 425-240, including a 206-52 mark in Southland Conference matches.
DuBois is a nine-time SLC Coach of the Year and his teams have won 11 SLC Tournament championships, 13 regular-season titles, to go along with the nine NCAA Tournament appearances.
He coached more than 100 athletes who have earned first or second-team All-SLC honors, including 12 SLC Tennis “Conference Player of the Year” awards.
DuBois saw 15 of his teams honored by the ITA for their outstanding academic achievements, posting a cumulative team grade point average of 3.2 or better and over 100 ITA scholar-athletes honored for having over a 3.5 individual grade point average.
A Kingston, New York native, DuBois competed in tennis for St. Bonaventure University in the Atlantic 10 Conference where he received his bachelor’s degree in physical education.
DuBois earned his graduate degree in sports administration from Kent State in Ohio.
DuBois’ wife, Lise, is a Natchitoches native and an instructor in the business department & department of family and consumer sciences at Northwestern State University. They have one daughter, Mazie Catherine, who earned her undergraduate degree from LSU. She and Zachary Ashworth of DeQuincy were married in June 2021.
