Bio

Wesley Fontaine returned to his alma mater in 2022 to be an assistant tennis coach and helped the men to a region championship and the women to a runner-up finish.

The Bulldogs men avenged their only regular-season loss by beating Jones in Ellisville for the NJCAA Region 23 championship. They went on to finish 15^th at the NJCAA Tournament in McKinney, Texas.

After conference and region runner-up finishes, the women’s team was 12^th at the NJCAA Tourney, tied with Jones for best among MACCC teams in Tyler, Texas.

Fontaine was a player on Gulf Coast’s 2021 men’s tennis team that won the MACCC and NJCAA Region 23 championships. He played No. 1 doubles and No. 3 singles, earning All-MACCC honors. At the NJCAA Championships that year, he was part of the Bulldogs’ No. 1 doubles team which won the consolation final, lifting Gulf Coast to a 16^th-place finish.

Fontaine also won the No. 5 singles title at the MACCC/Region 23 Tournament in 2019, helping lead the Bulldogs to an 18^th-place finish at the NJCAA Championships.

The Biloxi High product was a two-time district champion there.

Fontaine earned an associate’s degree at Gulf Coast and is working on his bachelor’s in sport coaching at the University of Southern Mississippi.