Ezequiel Gils

Ezequiel Gils is currently the Assistant Coach of Men's Tennis at The University of Alabama. Gils served as the head coach of the UAB Blazers for the 2023-24 season. Their 2024-25 recruiting class ranked No. 15 nationally among mid-majors. He coached the doubles pairing of Carlos Gimenez Perez and Juan Pablo Valdez at the ITA Fall National Championships. They concluded the regular season with three-straight wins

Gils served as a volunteer assistant coach at Alabama for three seasons (2020-23)

• Alabama recorded 35 wins during his time as a volunteer assistant coach
• Helped coach Filip Planinsek to ITA Rookie of the Year honors in 2022 as Planinsek finished the season as the second-highest ranked freshman in the country at No. 27 and the only freshman from the SEC to hold an end-of-year ranking
• Planinsek also earned SEC Freshman of the Year honors, first honoree in program history, as he put together a team-leading 22 singles wins and team-leading 22 doubles wins
• Alabama totaled four All-SEC honorees during his first three years with the Tide
• Patrick Kaukovalta and Riccardo Roberto advanced to the 2021 NCAA Doubles Tournament, while Edson Ortiz qualified for the singles draw

2019-20: Volunteer Assistant Coach at Rice

2015-19: Cedar Bluff Racquet Club

• Recruited and trained junior players at the Knoxville, Tennessee club
• Led an 18A Junior Team Tennis team that finished seventh at nationals

2015: Tennessee Wesleyan

• Began his college coaching career with the Bulldogs
• There, he assisted with match coaching, led practices, and recruited players, including an NAIA All-American athlete

2012-15: As a Collegiate Athlete

• Began his collegiate career at Tennessee Tech where he was a member of the 2012 OVC regular season champions before transferring to Tennessee Wesleyan in 2014
• Was a two-time NAIA All-American at Tennessee Wesleyan, earning back-to-back All-America honors
• Finished senior season with a 17-0 mark in singles and an 18-2 record in doubles, and was named the AAC Men's Tennis Player of the Year in 2015
• A two-time team captain, Gils was named to the Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athlete Team as a senior and named Tennessee Wesleyan's Most Representative Male Student.
• While in college, he coached at the Hugo Armando Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida where he worked with a number of players, including 2018 Australian Open junior champion Sebastian Korda