Nigel Bentley Position: Head Coach Experience: 12th Season Alma Mater: Connecticut College '83

Nigel Bentley continues his tenure as the director of the Boston College women's tennis with his 12th season. Since taking over the program, Bentley has built the programs into a consistently competitive program in the Northeast Region and has guided the Eagles to four nationally-ranked finishes.

The 2010-11 season raised the standard of success at BC. Bentley guided the Eagles to a 9-14 record, a program-best three ACC wins and final national ranking of No. 45 by the ITA - the best in school history. Katarina Gajic was pinned with an ITA final national ranking of 123 and led a group of four Eagles featured in the final Northeast Regional rankings. The successful spring campaign completed a fall season, which saw the Eagles capture singles and doubles titles at the USTA Billy Jean King Women's College Invitational, the Big Green Invitational and the Brown Invitational.

In each of the previous three seasons, Bentley has coached four individuals to be regionally ranked.

Prior to assuming the reigns of the women's team, Bentley was the head coach of the BC men's tennis team for four years.

A United States Professional Tennis Association member with a professional-one rating, Bentley has held head director positions at country clubs throughout Massachusetts, as well as across the U.S. and internationally.

Since his arrival at BC, Bentley has served as the President of the BIG EAST Tennis Coaches Association and represented Boston College on both the ITA and NCAA Regional Selection Committees. He has also served on the BIG EAST Conference's Seeding and Selection Committee and completed the USTA High Performance Program.

Before arriving at the Heights in 1995 to assume an assistant coaching position on the men's team, Bentley served as Tennis Director at the Chatham Bars Inn from 1987-1994.

Bentley was then hired as Tennis Director at the prestigious Concord Country Club in 1995. Previously, he held similar posts at Cap Juluca in Anguilla, British West Indies, Cascade Tennis Club in Vail, Colorado and Sunrise Country Club in Palm Springs, California.

A 1983 graduate of Connecticut College, Bentley was inducted into his alma mater's Athletic Hall of Fame in the fall of 2003.

In his life outside of Chestnut Hill, Bentley provides occasional columns and features on New England tennis for local weekly newspapers and has completed five Boston marathons.

Bentley and his wife, Betsy, reside in Acton, Mass. with their children, Blake and Sarah.