COE'S JANSSEN NAMED IIAC MVP

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA . . . The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) announced today that Coe College senior Greg Janssen (Oshkosh, Wis./West) has been named 2010 IIAC Men’s Tennis Most Valuable Player.

Janssen was named All-Conference in both singles and doubles after winning the Flight A singles title and, with Elliot Rausa, placing second in the Flight A doubles draw at the 2010 Iowa Conference Men’s Tennis Championship. He is the second Coe Flight A singles champion in three years, capturing the title when Dubuque’s Nick Garcia retired after the first set due to illness. Janssen capped his senior season with a 45-18 overall record, including a 21-9 mark in singles. He and Rausa advanced to the final in the doubles draw with a win over Luther’s Utsab Rijal and Scott Martin in the semifinal, then fell to Wartburg’s Mitch Eslick and Tom Koenen in the championship match.

Janssen is the fifth different Coe men's tennis player to be named IIAC Men's Tennis MVP, joining Johnny Watson (1999-2000-01), Nick Barnes (2002-03-04), Ryan Yao (2005), and Tom Jennings (2008). Greg is Coe's 9th IIAC MVP in their 13 years in the Iowa Conference. He finished 6th in Coe Tennis history on the all-time wins list with 157 and helped Coach Rodgers attain his 450th career win on May 6th against Central College.

Greg graduated May 9th, 2010 and is currently back in Oshkosh training his younger brother, Michael, for the Wisconsin State Tennis Tournament in early June. After that he will be doing in-service work in the Caribbean, and then this Fall will be serving a Business Internship in Santiago, Chile. He plans to attend law school in the Fall of 2011.