After spending one season as the head coach of the Northern Arizona women’s tennis team, Maciej Bogusz is now entering his fourth season in charge of the men’s tennis team.
In his two full seasons with the NAU men’s team, Bogusz has led the Lumberjacks to their first two NCAA Tournament appearances following Big Sky Conference Tournament victories while also winning the conference’s coach of the year award.
While the team finished the year 8-9 overall in 2020-21, the Lumberjacks went a perfect 3-0 to claim the newly formed Big Sky Conference South Division. With 4-0 sweeps against Portland State and Idaho State, NAU captured the Big Sky title and faced No. 4 Texas at the NCAA Tournament.
Five Lumberjacks earned All-Big Sky honors, with Eban Straker-Meads named All-Big Sky First Team in singles while Chris Steele landed on the second team for singles and Facundo Tumosa earning honorable mention. Doubles pair Daniel Dillon and Maciej Ziomber also landed on the Big Sky’s second team.
Before the 2019-20 season came to an early end with the postseason canceled, the Lumberjacks held a 6-7 record that followed up a record-breaking first season for Bogusz with the men’s team.
Finishing 22-7, the Lumberjacks dominated the season with 19 straight wins, the longest in program history, following their first Big Sky Conference match against Southern Utah University on March 2. After having a perfect conference record, the 'Jacks swept to earn the Big Sky Conference title under Bogusz. For the first time in program history, the men's team reached the NCAA Tournament.
Bogusz was named as Big Sky Coach of the Year for the first time in 2019 while Tim Handel earned the Big Sky Conference MVP and Tumosa was named Big Sky Freshman of the Year. Additionally, multiple players received All-Conference Awards for both singles and doubles. Handel, Lucas Taylor and the doubles pairing of Handel and Ruben Montano were all named to the Big Sky’s first team. Tumosa and Montano earned second-team singles honors while Tom Fisher and Chris Steele earned second-team doubles honors. Fisher also earned singles honorable mention, as did Tumosa and Taylor as a doubles pairing.
To further show how influential coaching was during the 18-19 season, his team was nationally ranked in almost all categories: No. 25 in the nation in doubles (Handel and Montano), No. 71 in the nation in singles (Handel), No. 2 in regional rankings in doubles (Handel and Montano), No. 5 in regional rankings in singles (Handel) and No. 6 as a team in regional rankings, which was the best in program history.
Bogusz spent the previous season in Flagstaff with Northern Arizona’s women’s tennis program for the 2017-18 season.
In the 2017-18 season, Bogusz coached the Lumberjacks to a 19-4 record and an 11-0 record in the Big Sky. In his one season, Bogusz coached four different student-athletes to all-conference honors while also having two doubles pairs nationally ranked as high as No. 45 and No. 56.
Bogusz spent five years with Wyoming's women's tennis program, initially starting as a volunteer assistant coach before being elevated to full-time assistant in 2014. In 2015, he was promoted to Associate Head Coach after being named the ITA Mountain Region's Assistant Women's Tennis Coach of the Year. Bogusz also has served on the Wyoming USTA Board of Directors since 2015.
In 2017, Bogusz helped coach Wyoming to an 18-4 record – the 18 wins marked a program best – and a perfect 5-0 record in the Mountain West. Wyoming's only two undefeated Mountain West records have come in the past three years. The team finished the 2017 season ranked fourth in the ITA Mountain Region rankings while the doubles pair of Elisa Koonik and Tessa Van Der Ploeg ranked fifth in the regional doubles rankings. Bogusz also helped guide Magdalena Stencel to her third straight All-Mountain West Conference honor. Stencel wound up No. 14 in the Mountain Region singles rankings, up from No. 19 the year prior.
He coached nine different student-athletes to all-conference honors during his time at Wyoming in addition to helping the Cowgirls attain a national top 75 ranking. Meanwhile, Bogusz was part of a program that achieved a perfect mark of 1,000 Academic Progress Rate score three years running, placing them in the top 10 nationally within their respective sport.
A native of Wroclaw, Poland, Bogusz arrived at Wyoming following a three and a half year stint as an Assistant Tennis Pro at the Indian Springs Country Club in Broken Arrow, Okla. There, he coached and trained several state and nationally ranked players including the Oklahoma state champion in 2011 and six Oklahoma high school regional champions.
Bogusz played collegiately at Lamar where he was ranked in the top 25 nationally in doubles, recording the highest ranking in school history. He was ranked in the ITA South Central Region singles rankings and was named to the All-Southland Conference First Team at No. 1 doubles in 2008.
He was a top juniors player in his native country of Poland and represented Poland in several international tournaments before coming to the states. Bogusz achieved an ATP ranking as high as 1,549 in 2003.
Bogusz is a 2009 graduate from Lamar with a degree in management.
