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Luc Godin

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Associate Head Coach
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A proven winner with a track record of 15 years of collegiate coaching success, Luc Godin was named Associate Head Coach at Washington in the summer of 2024. Godin comes to Seattle after three seasons as Head Coach at the University of Louisiana.

In his first season on Head Coach Rahim Esmail's staff, the Huskies broke into the top-40 of the national rankings and advanced to the NCAA Championships for the first time since the 2022 season. The Dawgs put together an impressive 17-9 campaign, going 8-5 in their first season in the Big Ten to finish fourth, and then reached the Big Ten Championship semifinals before falling to Harvard in the first round of NCAAs. Washington's No. 37 year-end ranking was its highest since 2013. Senior Cesar Bouchelaghem became the first Husky since 2013 to win a round at the NCAA Singles Championship, and he ended his year ranked No. 42 nationally in singles, while senior Dzianis Zharyn earned a No. 121 year-end singles ranking.

A native of Petit-Rocher, New Brunswick, Canada, Godin was a ranked junior player in Canada and competed in multiple future, satellite and semi-professional tournaments in North America before turning to coaching.

Godin led the Ragin’ Cajuns to year-end ITA team rankings of No. 61 in 2022 and No. 74 in 2023. In three seasons as Head Coach, Godin’s players earned six All-Sun Belt accolades in singles and three doubles teams earned All-Sun Belt.

From 2017-20, Godin was the Associate Head Coach at Louisiana, with the team going 52-23 over those three seasons and finishing in the ITA year-end rankings every year.

In 2020-21, Godin left Lafayette for one season and helped Tyler Junior College in Texas win the NJCAA National Championship including a 13-0 dual record. The team won five flights at the national championships: No. 1, No. 3, No. 4, and No. 6 singles, and No. 2 doubles. Godin also coached the women at Tyler JC in the mid-2000s to three NJCAA championships.

Godin has found success coaching both men and women, as he spent six seasons as a women’s assistant coach in the SEC, three at Auburn and three at Arkansas. In his last season at Arkansas in 2016, he was named the ITA Central Region Assistant Coach of the Year. Godin helped the Razorbacks reach consecutive NCAA tournaments in 2015 and 2016, finishing both years ranked in the top-40. Yuliya Lysa qualified for the NCAA Singles tourney both years as well.

At Auburn, Godin assisted in a huge turnaround as the Tigers went from 5-18 in 2011 the year before his arrival, to 19-9 and advancing to the NCAA Championship second round with a No. 25 final ranking in 2013.

Godin was also Head Coach of the women at Northwestern State University in 2010-11 and the head men’s coach at D-II Drury University in 2009-10.

He earned his bachelor's degree in General Studies, Exercise Science, at University of the Ozarks in 2006 before earning his master's degree in Health and Human Performance from Northwestern State University in 2009.