LA JOLLA, Calif. — UC San Diego Athletics is pleased to announce that assistant tennis coach Jake De Vries has been promoted to the position of associate head coach for both Triton tennis programs.
 
De Vries is in his second season with the Tritons. He will continue to work with men's head coach Timmer Willing and women's head coach Sebastian Bader after both teams reached new heights in 2024-25.
 
"I want to thank Timmer, Sebastian and Corey (Robinson, sport administrator) for their confidence in me and for taking this step to continue building the Triton tennis programs," De Vries said. "We, along with our excellent support staff, believe in the shared vision that UC San Diego will be one of the premier destinations for college tennis in California, the strongest tennis state in the country. I am so excited to continue our work together toward this long-term vision and to compete for conference championships this season."
 
Last season saw the Triton men's team tie their best Division I winning percentage, set a new program record for Big West wins and win a match in their first trip to The Big West Championship. The Triton women established new Division I program records for wins, Big West wins and home winning percentage.
 
De Vries came to UC San Diego from the University of Redlands, where he spent two seasons as an assistant coach and one as the interim head coach for both Bulldog programs from 2021-24. As the interim head coach in 2024, De Vries led both teams to the round of 16 in the NCAA Division III Tennis Championships. He also coached two players to All-American honors. De Vries earned SCIAC Women's Tennis Coaching Staff of the Year honors in 2024 and was named ITA West Region Men's Tennis Assistant Coach of the Year in 2023.
 
His coaching career began at North Carolina in 2018-19 as a graduate student manager. De Vries was then an assistant coach at USC in 2020, followed by a stint as the head coach for high performance junior tennis at Rocky Mountain Tennis Center in Colorado in 2021. He also coaches individual athletes on the WTA Tour.
 
As a player, De Vries was a three-star recruit out of Woodbridge High School in Irvine, California. He spent all four years of his collegiate career at Boston University from 2013-17, where he was a three-time ITA Scholar-Athlete and four-time Patriot League Academic Honor Roll recipient. De Vries received the athletic department's Aldo "Buff" Donelli Award for Leadership and the Scarlet Key, one of the university's highest academic honors.
 
De Vries graduated cum laude from Boston in 2017 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He completed a master's degree in sport administration at North Carolina in 2019.
 
About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program has begun a new era as a member of The Big West in NCAA Division I. The 24-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 83 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 39 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 90 percent, the highest rate among public institutions in NCAA Division I or II. For more information on the Tritons, visit UCSDtritons.com or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.