John Koepke is in his second season coaching the Hood College men's tennis program and first as women's head coach in 2016-17.
During his first season, Alex Sexton was named All-Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth. The Blazers had five players earn Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete Awards and the team was named as an All-Academic Team.
Koepke coached tennis at Catoctin High School for the past 15 years, winning three conference championships. In 2004, he was named the Frederick News-Post Girls Tennis Coach of the Year.
He taught at Catoctin for 35 years, teaching AP Calculus and starting the statistics program. Koepke chaired the math department for 25 years. In 2014, he was named the Giant Food-Sophie Altman It's Academic Coach of the Year in Maryland.
A 1996 inductee in the Shepherd University Athletic Hall of Fame, he was named the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Year and was an NAIA Academic All-American as a senior. He won three WVIAC singles titles and a pair of doubles championships for the Rams. Koepke was a three-sport standout at Shepherd, scoring over 1,000 career points in basketball and earning all-conference honors in diving.
Koepke earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and science from Shepherd in 1980. He went on to receive a master's degree in math curriculum/instruction from the University of Maryland in 1985. In 2000, he was bestowed with an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Mount Saint Mary's University.
