A nationally recognized championship tennis coach, Louis Nash is a 42-year MAC member who has guided programs at R. H. Watkins High in Laurel, Greenville St. Joseph, and Oxford.  Born in Greenville, Coach Nash was a three-year letterman in tennis at Greenville High.  He earned his college degrees at Mississippi State and Delta State.  Louis started his distinguished 42-year coaching career when he was hired as a basketball coach and teacher at R. H Watkins High in Laurel in 1979.  When he found out there was an opening for head tennis coach at the school, he immediately jumped at the opportunity which would start a four-decade run at championships.  His Laurel tennis teams won the overall Big Eight tennis championships and finished as a state runner-up.  After a year coaching basketball at Riverside High in Avon, Coach Nash returned to Greenville to Greenville St. Joseph High where he again coached basketball, tennis, cross country, and football.  On the tennis courts, he led his netters at St. Joseph to 5 state championships from 1986 to 1993.  Louis arrived at Oxford High in 2001 and established a high school tennis dynasty.  He has guided the Chargers tennis teams to 10 state championships from 2001 to 2024.  Overall, Coach Nash has led his tennis teams to 29 division or region titles and 15 state championships.  His dual match team record as head tennis coach is an amazing 600 wins to only 69 losses.  Coach Nash has paced 64 players to individual state titles during his career.  For his efforts, Louis was named the MAC Tennis Coach of the Year in 1991 and 2009 and he is a five-time MAC All-Star coach.  Coach Nash was selected as the Mississippi Tennis Association Coach of the Year and the National Federation of High School Athletics Mississippi Tennis Coach of the Year in 2010.  In 2015, Coach Nash was named the NFHS South Sectional Coach of the Year.  Louis was named Mississippi Coach of the Year by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association in 2018 and by the United States Professional Tennis Association in 2020. In 2024, Coach Nash was named the NHSACA National Tennis Coach of the Year.  Louis is a strong advocate for high school tennis and has served as the National Chairman of the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Tennis Committee and was the USTA Southern High School Committee Chairman from 2016 to 2018.  He is a certified USPTA tennis professional who is active in MAC and MHSAA tennis affairs and has co-authored legislation to improve the sport through a team playoff system, adding doubles matches, and allowing additional coaching in line with current college coaching guidelines.  Off the court, Coach Nash has served as a district PE coordinator, a school district fundraiser, an interim principal, an assistant athletic director, and member of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness, SHAPE America and the Mississippi Association of Educators.  He is a certified NIAA Athletic Administrator and a member of the Mississippi Association of Athletic Administrators.  In addition to his MAC Hall of Fame induction, Coach Nash was one of the first inductees into the Mississippi Tennis Hall of Fame from the high school coaching ranks in 2023.