Othmane Lalami

Biography

Othmane Lalami was hired as the Associate Head Coach of the Old Dominion men’s tennis program on Dec. 9th of 2019 after most recently serving at the Associate Head Coach at Duquesne. Old Dominion University: (Coaching) In his first season in Norfolk, Coach Lalami helped the ODU team to an ITA national ranking during the 2020 spring season, while two doubles tandems ended the year-end national rankings. ODU changed conferences in the 2022-23 season returning to the Sun Belt Conference and the Monarchs made quick noise to be a team to deal with as they captured the league title and NCAA Tournament bid. The Monarchs defeated South Alabama 4-2 in the tournament final and advanced to a regional at North Carolina. On the year, the Monarchs were 18-10 and were ranked third in the Atlantic Region. Individually, Jakob Cadonau was named Sun Belt Conference Newcomer of the Year and Mueller earned Co-Coach of the Year honors. Cosme Rolland De Ravel garnered second team All-Conference honors as well. The 2021-22 season saw the Monarchs come away with a few postseason awards with Francois Le Tallec earning a bid to the NCAA Singles Championships finishing as the highest ranked player in Conference USA at 50th and earned First Team All-Conference USA honors in singles. The doubles tandems of Nicola Vidal and Luca Maldoner (first team) and Oliver Nolan and Younes Lalami (second team) earned honors as well. Vidal and Maldoner ended the year ranked 90th in doubles. In 2020-21, Coach Lalami hel