Bio

Patrick Roche joins the Golden Bear family as the Head Women's Tennis Coach in 2021. Roche will progress into his second season as the head coach of WNE's women's tennis program in 2022 after picking up two wins in nine matches in his first season at the helm of WNE. 

Prior to Western New England, Roche was an instructor at Moving on Up Tennis of Springfield while also instructing with the Northampton Recreation Department. Roche is a former Division I tennis and soccer player at Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y. where he earned his bachelor's in 1991. Roches also earned his master's in 2003 from Sage Graduate School in Troy, N.Y.