Greg Patton

The final national ranking for the Broncos was 31st in the nation with a 31-8 record.

Freshman Luke Shields was named an All American in singles and doubles.

Partner Thomas Schoeck earned All American Honors in doubles.

They finished the season ranked 8th in the nation.

Luke was named Freshman of the Year by the Mountain Region (Region VII).

Team Captain, Beck Roghaar was honored with the Regional Arthur Ashe Sportsmanship/Leadership Award.

The Broncos celebrated the season with a final ranking of 34th, one region honoree (senior Marcus Berntson), and two All-WAC honorees (Berntson and junior Guillaume Bouvier).

In his 28 years of collegiate coaching, Coach Patton has led his teams to 17 Conference Titles.

The final ranking was 45th.

Boise State was ranked #1 in the Mountain Region and qualified as the regional representative in the National Team Indoor Championships.

Senior Guillaume Bouvier earned a Singles All American Honor by reaching the round of 16 at the NCAA Championships.

Greg Patton (born 1952) is a tennis coach, both nationally and at a collegiate level.

He currently leads the nationally ranked Boise State Broncos of men's tennis program of Boise State University as their head coach.

His career record at Boise State is 203-67.

At Boise State, he has won seven conference championships in nine seasons in four different conferences (Big Sky, Big West, Western Athletic Conference, Mountain West).

His overall college coaching record is 554-260.

Patton is also a veteran coach in the World TeamTennis ranks.

He was the head coach of the St. Louis Aces, whose roster includes Andy Roddick.

He lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife, Christa, who was an adjunct French Professor at Boise State, and two children, Chelsea and Garrett.

Garrett is currently playing professionally in Europe.

Greg Patton played his collegiate tennis for the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1972-73 and 1973-74.

When he first joined the Broncos, Boise State had not won a conference tennis title since 1974.

Patton began his coaching career at his alma mater, UC Santa Barbara, where he coached in 1976-77 and 1977-78.

He also coached at CSU Bakersfield one season (1978–79) before beginning his 13 year stint at UC Irvine.

From 1984 through 1987 he served as the Head Junior National Coach with the USA Junior National Team that included Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, Michael Chang, Patrick McEnroe, Luke Jensen, David Wheaton and MaliVai Washington.

Locally and nationally, Patton is popularly credited with putting Boise State on the American collegiate tennis map.

Coach Patton changed things quickly – winning Big Sky trophies in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996.

He then led the Broncos to their fifth consecutive league title in 1997, which was a Big West trophy.

That same season, Boise State was ranked as high as second in the nation, went to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament and finished fifth.

He moved full-time to U.S. national team coaching duties when he first left Boise State in 1998, coaching primarily at the junior level.

In winter of 2002-03, he led the National boys 14's team to a World Junior Cup Championship, beating teams from Spain and Argentina to take the title.

He has coached several junior players to finish in the top five in the world rankings.

Before coaching for U.S.A. Tennis on a full-time basis, Patton had coached with junior national teams for several years.

(first time that USA has won this international team event) August, 2002

Led Boise State to top 20 National Rankings during these six years and as high as #2 in Division I

Won Big Sky and Big West conference Titles (5 out of 6 seasons)

Patton returned for a second Boise State tour in March 2003 and marked that comeback with a bang that led to a trophy – the 2003 Western Athletic Conference Championship.

Patton took over a team that was 5-5 and led the Broncos to a 13-3 run and three consecutive upsets (over Tulsa, Rice and SMU) to win the WAC Championship and then a first-round NCAA Tournament upset over Arizona before being stopped in the round of 32 by California.

In his second season back at Boise State (2003–2004), Coach Patton lead the Broncos to a 24-8 record, and third place finish in the WAC, and a National ranking that hovered between 30 and 45th in the nation.

This past season (2004–2005), the Broncos under Coach Patton's leadership won the WAC Conference for the second time in the past three years, earned a berth to the NCAA National Team Championships where they defeated North Carolina before losing to Texas A&M.