TEMPE, Ariz. -- Bates head coach Paul Gastonguay '89 has been named the Northeast Regional Wilson ITA Coach of the Year in men's and women's tennis, as announced Wednesday by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. 

The award honors a coach who has exhibited outstanding leadership in ways that contribute to on and off-court team performance. This is the third time since 2001 Gastonguay has earned the award in men's tennis, and the first time he's received the honor in women's tennis. 

A Lewiston native and a member of the Maine Tennis Hall of Fame, Gastonguay is the longest tenured head coach at Bates. He graduated from Bates in 1989 as the winningest tennis player in school history, amassing a combined record of 149-41 in his four-year playing career. He became the head coach of the men's tennis program in 1996 and took over the women's tennis team in 2001. Gastonguay is one of 13 Bates tennis players to earn All-America honors, and he has coached 11 of the other 12. He has also coached a pair of NCAA champions, one in singles, and one in doubles. 

This season, Gastonguay led both the women and men into the national rankings, and the men earned a seventh seed in the NESCAC Championships. The doubles team of senior captain Cam Davis-Kania (Middlefield, Conn.) and junior Alexander Gujarathi (Plymouth, Mass.) secured Second Team All-NESCAC honors. 

Meanwhile, Davis-Kania, senior captain Teddy Koide (Morristown, N.J.), junior Matthew Danielson (St. Petersburg, Fla.), senior captain Joanna Atwater (Short Hills, N.J.), senior captain Laura Littlefield (Ellicott City, Md.), senior Grace Kennedy (New York City), and sophomore Drew Williams (Guilford, Conn.) were named to the College Sports Communicators Men's & Women's Tennis Academic All-District® Teams.