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 and Wartburg College head coach Matt Tyler has been named 2010 IIAC Men’s Tennis Coach of the Year.

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).

Tyler receives Coach of the Year honors in just his first year at the helm in Waverly. He led Wartburg to a 13-15 record overall, a 5-3 mark in the league, and a third-place finish at the Iowa Conference Championships. He is the first Wartburg men’s tennis coach to receive Coach of the Year honors. Tyler’s squad picked up all-conference honors in both singles and doubles as Eslick advanced to the Flight A singles quarterfinals in addition to picking up the Flight A doubles title with Koenen.