ITA AWARD WINNERS

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Greg Coache, the third-year head coach of the Southern New Hampshire University women's tennis team, has been named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) East Region Coach of the Year, it was announced recently.

In 2009-10, Coache has guided the Penmen to the best season in program history.  To date, Southern New Hampshire has posted a 19-1 record and is currently on an 18-match win streak.  SNHU's lone loss of the season came to Division I Dartmouth.  The Penmen captured the first Northeast-10 regular season title in program history with a 13-0 league mark, then went on to win their first-ever NE-10 Tournament title with a 5-2 win over Stonehill College.  Coache has already been recognized as the Northeast-10 Coach of the Year.

Over his first three seasons, Coache has compiled a 39-12 record and guided SNHU to at least the NE-10 semifinals each season.  In 2008-09, the Penmen earned the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament berth and advanced to the second round.  This season, Southern New Hampshire has qualified for the NCAAs again as the No. 3 seed in the East Region and will face sixth-seeded Adelphi University Friday at 4:00 at Queens College in Flushing, N.Y.