• Head men's and women's tennis head coach starting in 2010-11 season
  • Previously served as the men's and women's head tennis coach at UWEC from 2001-04
  • Has been men's tennis head coach since 2001
• Has led the men's team to eight straight winning seasons (2005-12) and accumulated a record of 153-54 during that time
  • Qualified for NCAA Division III Tournament in 2009 (first time since 1996), 2010 and 2011
• With Blugold women's tennis team
  • WIAC Women's Tennis Coach of the Year in 2001
  • WIAC Co-Coach of the Year honors in 2002 and 2011
  • Team won conference championships in 2001 and 2002
• Coaching Experience
  • Assistant coach with former Blugold Scott Nesbit, a boyhood neighbor, at St. Olaf College in 2001
  • Assistant coach at UWRF from 1988-91
  • Successful Red Wing, Minn. High School programs
    • In 15 years with the boy's and girl's teams at Red Wing, the Wingers won 12 Missota Conference championships and four section titles
    • The girls' team won the conference title each of the last four seasons and had an overall record of 72-24 in the last six years
    • 1998 and 2000 boys' teams were state runner-up, the same years in which he was named state Coach of the Year
    • Two of his Red Wing players have earned Division I scholarships
• Playing Experience
  • College standout at UW-Stout where he played on three Wisconsin State University Conference championship teams for head coach Bob Smith in 1983, 1984 and 1985
  • Conference No. 2 singles and No. 2 doubles champion as both a junior and senior and the No. 3 singles runner-up and No. 3 doubles runner-up as a sophomore
• Education
  • Earned bachelor's degree in hotel/restaurant management from UW-Stout in 1985
    • Spent two and a half years with the Marriott Corporation
  • Earned a teaching degree in 1991 from UW-River Falls
• Born in Elyria, Ohio
• Moved to Edina, Minnesota as a youngster
  • State quarterfinalist for Breck High School in 1981
• Married to Theresa. Has two daughters: Lindsay and Katie

Last Updated: 8/13/12