Bouchet was born in Martinique, a French island in the Caribbean, but grew up in Miami before returning to France in 2011 to train. Bouchet has a strong resume of junior tennis accomplishments. He won the Monteuil Tennis Energy Men's Open tournament last month. In the summer, Bouchet defeated Leonel Alberti, who had a career-high ATP ranking of 818 in 2007. He is currently training with Arnaud Le Cloerec, the former No. 1 player for VCU (2003-07).
 

He will graduate from Ecole Diagonale high school in Nogent-Sur-Marne, France in the spring and enroll at Binghamton next fall.
 

"Valentin is a very mature young man who has the attention to detail and work ethic that will help our program continue to grow and compete for Mid-American Conference titles," Zieziula said. "He has shown some impressive results and improvements in the last year but we are most excited about the growth that his game will see once he gets into our program."