Chad Boudreau
{{short description|American basketball coach (born 1972)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Chad Boudreau
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| current_title = Head coach
| current_team = Western Illinois
| current_conference = OVC
| current_record = {{winpct|33|31|record=y}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|10|23}}{{cite web|url=https://www.coachesdatabase.com/chad-boudreau/|title=Chad Boudreau (Western Illinois Leathernecks)|website=coachesdatabase.com|access-date=July 28, 2024}}
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| alma_mater = Hannibal-LaGrange (BA, '95)
Southwest Baptist (M.Ed, '99)
| coach_years1 = 1995
| coach_team1 = Hannibal-LaGrange (women's GA)
| coach_years2 = 1999–2005
| coach_team2 = Indian Hills (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 2005–2016
| coach_team3 = Milwaukee (assistant)
| coach_years4 = 2016–2017
| coach_team4 = Wisconsin-Whitewater (assistant)
| coach_years5 = 2017–2020
| coach_team5 = Highland Community College
| coach_years6 = 2020–2023
| coach_team6 = Western Illinois (associate HC)
| coach_years7 = 2023–present
| coach_team7 = Western Illinois
| overall_record = {{winpct|33|31|record=y}} (NCAA)
{{winpct|76|21|record=y}} (NJCAA)
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| championships = 3x Arrowhead Conference Regular Season (2018-20)
| awards =
| coaching_records = Region IV NJCAA (8-1), NJCAA D4 (0-1) NJCAA D1 (0-1)
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Michael Chad Boudreau (born October 23, 1972) is an American college basketball coach and is currently the head coach of the Western Illinois Leathernecks men's basketball team.{{Cite web|url=https://goleathernecks.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/chad-boudreau/2629|title=Chad Boudreau - Men's Basketball Coach|website=Western Illinois University Athletics}}
Coaching career
Boudreau began his coaching career as a graduate assistant for the women's basketball team at Hannibal-LaGrange College, and would later become an assistant coach for the men's basketball team at Indian Hills Community College from 1999 to 2005 before joining Rob Jeter's coaching staff at Milwaukee.{{Cite web|url=https://mkepanthers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/chad-boudreau/21|title=Chad Boudreau - Assistant Men's Basketball Coach - Men's Basketball Coaches|website=Milwaukee Athletics}} He was on staff for the Panthers' upset of Oklahoma during the 2006 NCAA Tournament and was part of two Horizon League regular season titles and two tournament titles.
In 2016, Boudreau spent a single season as an assistant coach at Wisconsin-Whitewater before becoming the head coach at NJCAA institution Highland Community College.{{Cite web|url=https://www.journalstandard.com/story/news/education/campus/2017/05/31/highland-community-college-names-new/20754376007/|title=Highland Community College names new Cougar men’s basketball head coach|author=Staff Writer|website=The Journal Standard}} He'd guide the Cougars to three-straight Arrowhead Conference titles, and would compile a 76–21 overall record. In 2020, Boudreau would reunite with Jeter and join his staff at Western Illinois as associate head coach.
On April 13, 2023, Boudreau was promoted to head coach at Western Illinois when Jeter departed for the head coaching position at Southern Utah.{{cite web |title=Chad Boudreau officially announced as Western Illinois head coach |url=https://www.coachesdatabase.com/chad-boudreau-hired-western-illinois/ |website=Coaches Database |access-date=22 April 2023}}{{cite web |title='This is home': Western Illinois hires new men's basketball coach |url=https://www.pjstar.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2023/04/13/college-basketball-coaching-western-illinois-hires-chad-boudreau/70113123007/ |website=Peoria Journal Star |access-date=22 April 2023}}{{cite web |last1=Duerr |first1=Christopher |title=Interim No More: Chad Boudreau officially named WIU Men's Basketball Coach |url=https://khqa.com/newsletter-daily/interim-no-more-chad-boudreau-named-wiu-mens-basketball-coach |website=KHQA |access-date=22 April 2023}}{{cite web |title=Western Illinois hires new men's basketball coach |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/home-western-illinois-hires-mens-225201379.html |website=Yahoo |access-date=22 April 2023}}
Head coaching record
=NCAA DI=
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Western Illinois Leathernecks
| conference = Ohio Valley Conference
| startyear = 2023
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2023–24
| name = Western Illinois
| overall = 21–12
| conference = 13–5
| confstanding = 4th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2024–25
| name = Western Illinois
| overall = 12–19
| conference = 6–14
| confstanding = 10th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Western Illinois
| overall = {{Winning percentage|33|31|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{Winning percentage|19|19|record=y}}
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{{CBB Yearly Record End
| overall = {{Winning percentage|33|31|record=y}}
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=NJCAA=
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Highland Community College Cougars
| conference = Arrowhead Conference
| startyear = 2017
| endyear = 2020
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2017–18
| name = Highland CC
| overall = 26–8
| conference = 10–1
| confstanding = 1st
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2018–19
| name = Highland CC
| overall = 23–6
| conference = 5–0
| confstanding = 1st
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2019–20
| name = Highland CC
| overall = 27–7
| conference = 10–0
| confstanding = 1st
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Highland CC
| overall = {{Winning percentage|76|21|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{Winning percentage|25|1|record=y}}
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{{CBB Yearly Record End
| overall = {{Winning percentage|76|21|record=y}}
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References
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External links
- [https://mkepanthers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/chad-boudreau/21 Milwaukee Panthers profile]
- [https://uwwsports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/chad-boudreau/1622 Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks profile]
- [https://goleathernecks.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/chad-boudreau/2629 Western Illinois Leathernecks profile]
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