Coach Profile

Tyler Faulkner

Michigan State University

Team:women

Tyler Faulkner enters his seventh year with the Michigan State women's tennis team. During the 2016-17 season he was honored with the Midwest Region's Assistant Coach of the Year Award from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). He also helped lead the Spartans to a 17-8 overall record and a 7-4 Big Ten record, with the seven wins in the Big Ten being the most since 1991.
Faulkner came to Michigan State after having served three seasons as the men's and women's assistant tennis coach at Troy University. Before Troy, Faulkner was a volunteer assistant coach for the men's team at the University of Alabama, where he helped lead the Crimson Tide to a top-25 national ranking and an NCAA Tournament berth. Prior to that position, Faulkner was an assistant coach for men's and women's tennis at his alma mater Berry College from 2006-08. Berry was a perennial NAIA top-10 team during his stint. Faulkner started his coaching career at Colby College in Waterville, Maine during the 2005-06 season, where he helped lead the team to its first ever national ranking.

Michigan State University

Michigan State University, founded in 1855, is a comprehensive, land-grant, public university. It has earned national recognition for cancer research and the development of the magnetic resonance imager (MRI). Michigan State has the largest residence hall system of any university in the nation, and it also houses the world's most powerful superconducting cyclotron. It is the only university in the nation with three medical schools on one campus: human, osteopathic and veterinary. Programs are offered through the Colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Arts and Letters, Communication Arts and Sciences, Education, Engineering, Human Ecology, Natural Science, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, Social Science, and Veterinary Medicine; Eli Broad College of Business; and the James Madison College. Its 5,200-acre campus is located in East Lansing, 80 miles northwest of Detroit.

College Website Online Application

Phone5173551855

Fax517-432-1047

Conference: Big Ten

Division: NCAA 1

Cost of Attendance: 51068

Average amount of grant and scholarship aid awarded, 2016-17: $11850

Average net cost-students awarded grant or scholarship aid, 2016-17: $16655

Characteristics

Degree of urbanization:
City: Small

Institution size category:
20,000 and above

Student-to-faculty ratio:
17/1

Highest degree offered:
Doctor's degree

Advanced placement (AP) credits:
Yes

Full-time retention rate (2017):
89%

Religious affiliation:
-2.0

Provides on-campus housing
Charge for room and board: $10522

Admission

Acceptance Rate: 0.88%

Admission test scores: Required

TOEFL: Required

SAT Read Write: Min: 580 Max: 670 Avg: 625

SAT Math: Min: 580 Max: 690 Avg: 635

ACT Average: 28 WSJ Rank: 60 UTR Women: 9.37 UTR Men: 12.97 WTN Women: 16.22 WTN Men: 6.34