CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Iowa
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) announced that Coe
College senior
Greg Janssen (Oshkosh, Wis./West) has
been named the 2010 IIAC Men's Tennis Most Valuable Player. Janssen was named all-conference in both singles and doubles.
Janssen won the Flight A Singles Championship and teamed with junior
Elliot Rausa (Waterloo, Iowa/Columbus) to finish second in the Flight A Doubles tournament.
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).