Jake De Vries joined UC San Diego ahead of the 2024-25 season and works with both Triton tennis programs. He spent one year as an assistant coach before being promoted to associate head coach for both teams in December 2025.
In 2024-25, De Vries helped both the men's and women's teams to new heights in their first year of Division I postseason eligibility. The men’s team tied their best Division I winning percentage, set a new program record for Big West wins and won a match in their first trip to The Big West Championship. The women’s team 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. The men's team made their first NCAA Championships appearance since 2013, and both teams had their deepest postseason runs since 2009. The women's mid-season national ranking of No. 8 was also their best since 2009.
In addition to the team success, De Vries' interim head coach season saw two players earn All-American honors. One, Maegan Deng, was named ITA National Rookie of the Year and West Region Rookie of the Year. De Vries coached two singles players and two doubles teams to individual qualification spots in the 2024 NCAA Championships. The Bulldogs finished the season with six All-SCIAC honors and two SCIAC Rookie of the Year awards. The conference also recognized De Vries and his staff as the 2024 SCIAC Women's Tennis Coaching Staff of the Year.
As an assistant coach at Redlands, De Vries was named ITA West Region Men’s Tennis Assistant Coach of the Year in 2023. The women's team also qualified for the NCAA Championships in 2022 and finished with a final national ranking of No. 15, their best since 2014. De Vries' recruiting efforts saw both programs achieve top-15 recruiting classes in 2023. He also landed the first four-star commit in program history. In 2023, De Vries coach a men's doubles team to the round of 16 at the NCAA Championships.
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.
De Vries also coaches individual athletes on the WTA Tour. He currently works with Catherine Harrison and Angela Kulikov as their primary travel coaches. Both players have won WTA and ITF events and qualified for Grand Slam events during their time with De Vries. He also previously coached Hayley Carter and Maegan Manasse prior to their retirements, both of whom also won professional events.
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.
