Now in his fifth season, head coach Nick Mueller has established a winning program at the University of Evansville. After the graduation of one of the top classes in program history in the spring of 2012, Mueller kept the consistency of the program headed in the right direction, going 10-11 with one of the youngest teams in the country while coaching Marketa Trousilova to a 15-3 singles record while seeing her team with Natasha James to win seven doubles contests. Trousilova was named to the MVC All-Select Team while the duo of James and Trousilova were named All-Conference at No. 1 doubles.
As a first-year head coach, Mueller led the Aces to a third place tie in the Missouri Valley Conference regular season standings, and a number four seed in the State Farm MVC Tournament. Both were UE's highest rankings since the Aces joined the MVC in 1995. Mueller continued to lead the program in the right direction as UE posted a 13-9 mark in 2011-12 while going 5-2 in home matches. The Aces also earned the ITA All-Academic Team Award for the 15th consecutive season, compiling a team grade point average of 3.2 or better.
On top of the statistical success, his squad earned a record amount of MVC recognition as Aleks Dzakula, Jess Raatz and Dora Kotsiou each received postseason MVC honors.
"Work ethic, commitment, and a desire to become a better and smarter player are what our program is all about," says Mueller, who came to Evansville from Virginia Tech, where he was assistant coach and helped make the Hokies an Intercollegiate Tennis Association Top 50 Team for three consecutive seasons.
Mueller is a 2002 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he was team captain for three seasons and played number one singles for two years. Mueller assisted with the nationally ranked William & Mary women's tennis team in the spring of 2002. He served as volunteer assistant women’s tennis coach at Wisconsin-Madison in 2002-03, and then spent nearly three years as assistant men’s and women’s tennis coach at Longwood University in Farmville, Va. before taking the Virginia Tech coaching position in 2007. The Hokies were ranked as high as 37th nationally by the ITA in 2009. Virginia Tech earned the ITA All-Academic Team Award each of the past two seasons.
