Devin Lachapelle joined the Colby Women's Tennis program as an assistant coach in the spring of 2024. To start the 2024-25 academic year he became an assistant coach for the Men's Program as well.
Lachapelle graduated from the University of Maine at Farmington in 2018 and completed his master’s degree at the University of Maine in 2022. During his undergraduate and graduate years, Lachapelle competed on his schools’ club teams and functioned as the de facto coach.
Lachapelle started coaching at Waterville Senior High School in 2016 as a sophomore at UMF and will be entering his ninth season as the girls’ tennis team coach this spring. He has coached the Purple Panthers to seven-straight regional semifinals, including four-straight regional finals (five total), back-to-back regional championships, and the program’s first undefeated season and state title in 2021, handing the Cape Elizabeth Capers their first-ever state championship loss (fourteen previous titles). Lachapelle’s team has been responsible for ending the undefeated seasons of six teams across seven seasons, including breaking a team’s twenty-two-match win streak.
Lachapelle also serves as the state’s high school tennis coaches’ liaison as a member of the Maine Principals’ Association tennis committee, is the director of the central and coastal qualifying tournament for Maine state singles, and will be the director for the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference qualifying tournament for the newly reinstated Maine state doubles tournament.
Lachapelle enjoys helping out with local tennis as much as he can, serving as volunteer director for the Central Maine Tennis Association, director of youth recreational tennis in Waterville, tennis instructor at both Champions Fitness Club in Waterville and the KVTA in Augusta, and volunteer coach for the Colby College club tennis team.
“I’m extremely excited to join the Colby College Women’s Tennis coaching staff after spending the last decade being mentored by my good friend Jim Bégin, a graduate of Colby (‘67) and a former Colby tennis coach. My hope is to provide meaningful contributions to the team’s overall success, to support our student-athletes and coaches in any way that I can, and to help to build and maintain connections between the team and the Waterville tennis community.”
