Bio

Gary Bourgeois

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (2004-2020)

Gary Bourgeois led the Mississippi Gulf Coast men’s and women’s tennis teams from 2004 through 2020, and his squads consistently competed for conference and region championships.

The 2013 men’s team won the MACJC and NJCAA Region 23 championships, and his 2017 women’s team did likewise. He led 17 squads to the NJCAA National Tournament and sent more than 30 Gulf Coast players on to four-year schools, from NCAA Division I to the NAIA. More than 50 players have been Academic Student-Athlete Awards, and Margarita Lopareva became the school's first CoSIDA Academic All-American in 2019.

Bourgeois has 12 different state and region Coach of the Year awards, and his players advanced to five straight ITA Small College Championships/Oracle Cups. He coached back-to-back ITA Region III Women's Sophomore of the Year award winners.

Bourgeois is a former director of the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Austria and California, president of the Tennis Players Fitness Institute’s ATP/WTA Development Program and international clinician for Prince Racquet Sports. He’s been a private coach on the ATP/WTA ITF World Tour. He was selected as the Team Mississippi coach for Junior Davis Cup by the USTA/MTA.

Bourgeois graduated from The University of Southern Mississippi and was a quarterback for the Golden Eagles football team.