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Tennis Staff
 Amine Boustani
Amine Boustani, who has thrived as a coach and player on the national stage, joined the VCU coaching staff prior to the 2009 spring season.

From 1994-2008, Boustani led the men’s team at Division II powerhouse Drury in Springfield, Mo. His track record with the Panthers was staggering. In 14 seasons, Boustani’s teams finished with a national ranking of No. 6 or better nine times, while he compiled a record of 271-62, an .814 winning percentage. His teams were ranked No. 1 on three occasions.

In 2008, he directed Drury to a 25-3 mark and a national semifinal appearance. The year before, Boustani saw the Panthers finish 22-3 as he picked up his second National Coach of the Year award.  

It certainly wasn't the first time Boustani's Panthers were knocking on the door of a national championship. Drury finished second in the nation in 2002, the first of four consecutive Elite Eight appearances.

Boustani served as Drury’s graduate assistant coach from 1992-94 before accepting the head coaching position of both the men’s and women’s programs. He continued to work the double-duty until deciding to focus strictly on the men’s program in 2000.

The 2000 season was also the beginning of Drury’s run through the Heartland Conference, including six consecutive league titles – and six Coach of the Year awards for Boustani - before the Panthers left to join the Great Lakes Valley Conference.

The 1991 graduate of then-Southwest Missouri State was the Bears’ No. 1 player as a junior and senior. Boustani also won a national junior college title in singles at Midland (Texas) Community College.

Boustani enjoyed a successful junior career in his native country of Morocco, where he was a four-time national champion and a member of the Davis Cup Team.

He has also served as a tennis director at the world famous Bollettieri Tennis Camp in South Hadley, Mass., and on various NCAA-II tennis committees, including the Board of Directors for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), serving as the chair of the NCAA-II men’s division.