After spending time on coaching staffs at Appalachian State and Arizona, Jack Maddocks enters his fourth season with the Sacramento State women’s tennis program in 2024-25, elevated to the program's associate head coach in August of 2024 after spending the previous three seasons as an assistant.
Over the last three seasons, Maddocks has helped guide a resurgence in the Hornet program, culminating in a Big Sky Conference regular season and tournament championship in 2024, while sending Sacramento State back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014, taking on No. 10 California in the first round.
Joining head coach Sophie Breault's staff in 2022, Maddocks helped take a Hornet squad that won just one match the year prior to five wins in 2022 and an 11-11 overall record in 2023, reaching the semifinals of the Big Sky Conference Tournament in each of those campaigns.
In 2024, the Hornets rose to the top of the Big Sky standings en route to claiming both the league's regular season and tournament titles, posting a 20-8 overall record and a 6-2 mark in conference play. The regular season title was the 10th in school history and the program's tournament crown was the 12th for Sacramento State -- at the time, the most in Big Sky history.
The 20 victories during the regular season were the most since the Hornets finished with 21 overall wins in 2008, and tied for the fourth-most in a single season in the program's Division I history.
While with the Hornets, six different Sacramento State student-athletes have gone on to collect a total of 12 All-Big Sky honors and the team has earned a total of Big Sky Player of the Week awards. In addition, prior to the 2023 season, the Hornets' recruiting class was named one of the nation's top mid-major classes according to TennisRecruiting.net, coming in at No. 16 on the list -- the first time that Sacramento State made the organization's top 25 list.
Academically, the 2022 and 2023 teams were named ITA All-Academic Teams and 14 student-athletes earned individual honors while also picking up 13 Big Sky All-Academic awards.
Maddocks signed on with the Hornets after spending the previous three semesters as a volunteer assistant with the Wildcats in Tucson, helping Arizona land the No. 17 and No. 19-ranked recruiting classes in the country — including a top-100 ITF recruit — and two student-athletes who were eventually named to the All-Pac-12 team in 2021. He also helped mentor the Wildcats’ Jelena Lukic to an ITA national ranking for singles and helped Arizona break into the top 60 as a team in the ITA rankings.
Prior to his time in Tucson, Maddocks spent the previous three seasons in various roles with both the men’s and women’s tennis programs at his alma mater, Appalachian State, including serving as the interim head men’s tennis coach in 2018.
In his three years, Maddocks helped the women’s program from a five-win campaign in his first year to the Sun Belt Conference title in 2019, capping off one of the most successful seasons in team history. The next year, the Mountaineers achieved the program’s highest ranking ever during the pandemic-shortened 2020 spring season, reaching No. 49 in the ITA rankings, while helping Sasha Pisareva to a 9-0 record in the No. 48 ITA national singles ranking — the highest of any singles player in program history.
In 2018, he helped coach five student-athletes to All-Sun Belt honors on the women’s side — the most in the history of the program — and guided the team to its first Sun Belt Tournament victory, a 4-1 win over Texas State. He was also named the interim head coach for the men’s program that same year, guiding Appalachian State to a 12-11 record and the team’s second-ever appearance in the conference tournament semifinals.
One of his charges, Scott Webster, reached No. 61 in the ITA singles rankings — the highest of any player on the men’s side in program history — and coached a pair of All-Sun Belt first team selections.
A standout student-athlete himself for the Mountaineers, Maddocks finished 49-33 in singles and 45-25 in doubles in his four-year career, helping lead Appalachian State to a pair of tournament semifinal appearances in both the Sun Belt and Southern Conferences.
He was twice named to the All-Sun Belt doubles team, earned All-Sun Belt honors in singles, and was named to the Southern Conference All-Freshman Team in 2014. During his time as a player with the Mountaineers, the team won 46 matches — including a 26-16 record during back-to-back winning seasons in 2016 and 2017.
Maddocks is a 2017 cum laude graduate of Appalachian State with a degree in psychology with a concentration in health studies, and went on to earn his master’s degree from the university in higher education administration with a focus in leadership and educational studies in 2020.
