Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Greg Couch, a nationally regarded tennis coach and teaching professional, enters his second year as head men's and women's tennis coach at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology for the upcoming 2023-24 academic year.

Couch led the Fightin' Engineers to a pair of 3rd place finishes in his first year on the job. The men's team has a 10-10 record under Couch with the women's team sporting a 7-13 record overall.

Couch came to Rose-Hulman with five years of head coaching experience at NAIA Roosevelt University in Chicago from 2017-22.  He helped produce the first winning seasons in both men's and women's program history at Roosevelt, highlighted by a 10-2 record in the COVID shortened 2019-20 season. He also was named the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference's women's coach of the year.
 
Couch's men's squads combined for a 31-18 overall record in his last four seasons at Roosevelt.  On the women's side, the team produced consecutive double-digit wins in a season twice for a program that had never previously won more than six matches in a season.
 
Couch's tennis background also includes serving as a tennis club teaching pro at teaching academies in Aurora, Hanover Park and Naperville, Illinois, since 2015.  He has run high-performance drills for eventual college players and has worked with top-level junior players in the suburban Chicago area.  As a player, he was ranked in the top five in the state of Kansas, top 10 in the state of Colorado and played for both the ITA Championships and in tournaments on the Penn Pro circuit.
 
Off the court, Couch is an award-winning sports journalist who has written for newspapers and websites across the nation, including the Chicago Sun-Times, The New York Times, FoxSports.com, the Guardian, Vice and Rolling Stone. He was twice named Chicago's best sports columnist and twice anthologized in the book series Best American Sports Writing.
 
Couch has traveled the world to cover nearly every major sporting event, including five Olympics. He also was the nation's only tennis writer one year to go to all four majors and all three masters level events in the U.S.  He has had a chance to analyze the game up close and talk with the world's top players, including Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. The U.S. Tennis Writers Association named him America's best tennis columnist.
 
Couch earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Colorado.