University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Men's Tennis
Godin, Luc
Luc Godin
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- luc.godin@louisiana.edu
- Phone:
- (337) 482-6328
Luc Godin returned to Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Men's Tennis in August 2021 when he was appointed as the 10th head coach in program history.
Godin, who spent the 2020-21 season as an assistant coach at Tyler Junior College, served as associate head coach for the Ragin' Cajuns men's program from 2017-20.
The 2024 season saw the Ragin’ Cajuns play one of the most difficult schedules in the country. Louisiana faced six teams that would reach the NCAA Tournament, knocking off a pair of ranked opponents in Charlotte and South Alabama en route to a 12-win season, Louisiana’s 13th straight season with a .500 record or better. Louisiana’s win over South Alabama in the Sun Belt Conference Championships saw the team advance to the semifinals for the first time since 2015.
Alejandro Sanchez Gonzalez had a terrific senior season, winning 12 singles matches to earn First Team All-SBC and All-LSWA honors. The senior closed the SBC season with five straight wins at court one. Vasil Dimitov won 11 singles contests to earn All-LSWA honorable mention, playing primarily on court four.
The Cajuns continued their strong play into 2023, posting two five-match winning streaks and finishing No. 74 in the nation, one of three Louisiana schools to finish nationally ranked. They finished third in the SBC for the second straight season and knocked off rival South Alabama for the first time since 2015. The doubles duo of Karlo Kajin and Sanchez Gonzalez completed the year ranked No. 72 in the country and were named first team All-SBC.
Godin's return to Louisiana in 2022 was marked with instant success. The Ragin' Cajuns finished as one of only two teams ranked in the state of Louisiana at the conclusion of the spring 2022 dual match season - landing at No. 61 in the final ITA poll - and was the highest ranked team inside the Sun Belt Conference, finishing ahead of Georgia State (No. 62) and South Alabama (No. 68).
The 2022 Ragin' Cajuns built a 17-win regular season on the strength of an impressive 14-match win streak which included quality wins over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Rice, Texas Tech, ETSU, and UTSA, and along the way captured the title at the prestigious H-E-B Tournament of Champions. The winning streak, and the squad's 15-1 start that ran through mid-March, marked the program's best marks in the 2000s era.
Louisiana earned the No. 3 seed in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament by racing out to a 4-0 start in league play which included an impressive 4-1 win over No. 1 seed Georgia State on March 27 at Cajun Courts.
While at Tyler the season before returning to Louisiana, he was primarily responsible for on-court coaching, using data analytics to breakdown matches and writing scouting reports for the team. During the 2020-21 season, the team posted a perfect 13-0 record, including a 7-0 mark away from home.
Godin coached 11 All-Americans, two National Player of the Year recipients and helped the team win five national team championships while on staff at Tyler.
In his first stint with the Ragin' Cajuns' men's program, he helped lead the team to three winning seasons, including a 21-10 mark during the 2018-19 campaign. The team's win total that year marked the most victories in a single season since 2012.
Godin played an integral role in recruiting a top-20 recruiting class ahead of the 2019-20 campaign. That year, the team went on to boast a 13-3 record. With his guidance, five players earned All-Sun Belt Conference accolades.
Prior to arriving in Lafayette, he spent three seasons as the women's assistant coach at the University of Arkansas. A runner-up for the 2016 NCAA Division I Assistant Coach of the Year award, he helped guide the Razorbacks to their 14th all-time NCAA Championship appearance in 2016-17 and saw them rise from No. 60 to No. 15 in the NCAA rankings during his tenure.
Godin was instrumental in helping Yuliya Lysa to All-SEC First Team honors and freshman Ana Oparenovic to All-Freshman acclaim during the 2016 season. In all, six players qualified for individual postseason nationals and six out of the 24 starters he coached earned a national ranking.
He got his first taste of SEC play as an assistant women's coach at Auburn University (2011-13), where he helped achieve one of the biggest turnarounds in the history of the NCAA by taking the unranked Tigers to a No. 13 national ranking in one season.
Godin also has previous head coaching experience at both Northwestern State (2010-11) and Drury University (2009-10).
At Northwestern State, his program secured a berth in the Southland Conference finals after going 17-7 on the year behind four All-Conference selections. Martina Rubesova led the way for the team, becoming the program's first ranked player in more than 15 years.
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 full-time in 1998.
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.
Godin, who spent the 2020-21 season as an assistant coach at Tyler Junior College, served as associate head coach for the Ragin' Cajuns men's program from 2017-20.
The 2024 season saw the Ragin’ Cajuns play one of the most difficult schedules in the country. Louisiana faced six teams that would reach the NCAA Tournament, knocking off a pair of ranked opponents in Charlotte and South Alabama en route to a 12-win season, Louisiana’s 13th straight season with a .500 record or better. Louisiana’s win over South Alabama in the Sun Belt Conference Championships saw the team advance to the semifinals for the first time since 2015.
Alejandro Sanchez Gonzalez had a terrific senior season, winning 12 singles matches to earn First Team All-SBC and All-LSWA honors. The senior closed the SBC season with five straight wins at court one. Vasil Dimitov won 11 singles contests to earn All-LSWA honorable mention, playing primarily on court four.
The Cajuns continued their strong play into 2023, posting two five-match winning streaks and finishing No. 74 in the nation, one of three Louisiana schools to finish nationally ranked. They finished third in the SBC for the second straight season and knocked off rival South Alabama for the first time since 2015. The doubles duo of Karlo Kajin and Sanchez Gonzalez completed the year ranked No. 72 in the country and were named first team All-SBC.
Godin's return to Louisiana in 2022 was marked with instant success. The Ragin' Cajuns finished as one of only two teams ranked in the state of Louisiana at the conclusion of the spring 2022 dual match season - landing at No. 61 in the final ITA poll - and was the highest ranked team inside the Sun Belt Conference, finishing ahead of Georgia State (No. 62) and South Alabama (No. 68).
The 2022 Ragin' Cajuns built a 17-win regular season on the strength of an impressive 14-match win streak which included quality wins over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Rice, Texas Tech, ETSU, and UTSA, and along the way captured the title at the prestigious H-E-B Tournament of Champions. The winning streak, and the squad's 15-1 start that ran through mid-March, marked the program's best marks in the 2000s era.
Louisiana earned the No. 3 seed in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament by racing out to a 4-0 start in league play which included an impressive 4-1 win over No. 1 seed Georgia State on March 27 at Cajun Courts.
While at Tyler the season before returning to Louisiana, he was primarily responsible for on-court coaching, using data analytics to breakdown matches and writing scouting reports for the team. During the 2020-21 season, the team posted a perfect 13-0 record, including a 7-0 mark away from home.
Godin coached 11 All-Americans, two National Player of the Year recipients and helped the team win five national team championships while on staff at Tyler.
In his first stint with the Ragin' Cajuns' men's program, he helped lead the team to three winning seasons, including a 21-10 mark during the 2018-19 campaign. The team's win total that year marked the most victories in a single season since 2012.
Godin played an integral role in recruiting a top-20 recruiting class ahead of the 2019-20 campaign. That year, the team went on to boast a 13-3 record. With his guidance, five players earned All-Sun Belt Conference accolades.
Prior to arriving in Lafayette, he spent three seasons as the women's assistant coach at the University of Arkansas. A runner-up for the 2016 NCAA Division I Assistant Coach of the Year award, he helped guide the Razorbacks to their 14th all-time NCAA Championship appearance in 2016-17 and saw them rise from No. 60 to No. 15 in the NCAA rankings during his tenure.
Godin was instrumental in helping Yuliya Lysa to All-SEC First Team honors and freshman Ana Oparenovic to All-Freshman acclaim during the 2016 season. In all, six players qualified for individual postseason nationals and six out of the 24 starters he coached earned a national ranking.
He got his first taste of SEC play as an assistant women's coach at Auburn University (2011-13), where he helped achieve one of the biggest turnarounds in the history of the NCAA by taking the unranked Tigers to a No. 13 national ranking in one season.
Godin also has previous head coaching experience at both Northwestern State (2010-11) and Drury University (2009-10).
At Northwestern State, his program secured a berth in the Southland Conference finals after going 17-7 on the year behind four All-Conference selections. Martina Rubesova led the way for the team, becoming the program's first ranked player in more than 15 years.
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 full-time in 1998.
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.
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