Ken Alrutz is in his fifth year at Wesleyan in 2008-09.  He came to Wesleyan after three years as the head men's and women's tennis coach at Miami University (Ohio)-Hamilton.  Under Ken's tutelage, Wesleyan tennis was honored by the USTA New England as the Educational Association of the Year in 2007-08.

        Concluding his third year at Miami-Hamilton in 2004 while also acting as a tennis professional at the Riverside Racquet Club in Hamilton, Ohio since 1999, Ken was the head men's tennis coach at Miami University (Ohio) in Oxford, Ohio from 1996 to 1999.  He also is a nine-year veteran head tennis coach at Virginia Military Institute, handling that duty from 1987 through 1996.  In addition to his coaching assignments, Ken taught English at both VMI and Miami.  He received VMI's Distinguished Coaching Award in 1990 and its Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992.  Miami's Associated Student Government presented him with an Honored Professor Award each year from 2000 through 2004.  He also acted as academic advisor to VMI's scholarship athletes during the summer of his final four years there.

        During his 12-year Division I coaching tenure, Ken had a cumulative record of 167-92 with 12 straight winning campaigns.  He led Miami to the Mid-American conference title in 1997, was named Mid-American Conference coach of the year in 1999 and was the Southern Conference coach of the year in 1992.  Ken has coached Davis Cup players from Tunisia and the Bahamas as well as world-ranked junior players from various countries.  A certified member of the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA), Ken was the USPTA Mid-Atlantic collegiate coach of the year in 1995 and the USPTA Midwest collegiate coach of the year in 1999.

        At Miami-Hamilton, Ken won Ohio Regional Campus Conference Championships in both men's and women's play in 2002 and 2004.

        A graduate of California State College in Pennsylvania, Ken did his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania.

        Ken has been on the Prince advisory staff for more than 20 years, an experience highlighted each year by conducting adult and junior clinics with such international tennis stars as Albert Costa, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Guillermo Coria and Xavier Malisse.  The last four summers, Ken conducted the Total Tennis Camp at Wesleyan, a program geared for school-aged boys and girls.

       

       Joining the coaching staff for the first time in Spring, 2009, John Pfeiffer has been the boy's tennis coach at Regional District 18 High School in Old Lyme, Conn. (Old Lyme High School) since 2002.  There he has led his squad to a collective 90-28 record with seven straight winning seasons. Prior to 2002, John coached both boys soccer and boys tennis at the middle-school level as well as handling the junior varsity girls basketball team at Coginchaug High School for a year.
      A graduate of Old Lyme High School and the University of Connecticut (1973), John also has an M.A. in anthropology from Wesleyan (1980) and a Ph.D.from SUNY-Albany (1992).  He has been a social studies teacher at Old Lyme High School since 2001 and served as a visiting lecturer in Wesleyan's GLSP for a dozen years (1984-96).