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After totaling 14 conference championships and 11 NCAA Division III Tournament appearances in 15 seasons as head coach of the Elizabethtown College men and womens tennis programs, Matt Helsel has been hired as the tennis coach for both programs at Millersville University.

Helsel, the winningest coach for both programs at Elizabethtown and a 12-time conference coach of the year award winner, led the womens program to seven consecutive championships, 10 overall and a 188-61 record. Helsel's mens teams won four conference championships while posting a 142-100 record.

Arriving in 2001-02, Helsel led the women Blue Jays to a 14-0 record in his third season on the job. Since then, his womens program finished as one of the top two teams in the league 12 seasons in a row, posting a 77-9 league record and reaching the NCAA Tournament eight times. On the mens side, his program finished as league champs four times, conference runner-up four times, and the team reached the NCAA Tournament in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Helsel won nine coach of the year awards while leading the womens program and three more on the mens side. Eight of his athletes won the Commonwealth Conference Rookie of the Year Award and three men and two women were named Commonwealth Conference Player of the Year. Helsel has coached the top 10 winningest players in Elizabethtown mens and womens tennis history.

In addition to serving as the head coach at Elizabethtown, Helsel was the head tennis professional at Hempfield Sports Complex from 2002-2010.

Helsel began his collegiate career at Millersville in 1992 and completed his bachelors degree in business administration from Elizabethtown in 2007, graduating magna cum laude.