Matt Houser of Vancouver was honored by the Pacific Northwest chapter of the United States Tennis Association as its Assistant Pro of the Year for 2015.
Now a coach at Evergreen Tennis in Camas, Houser was honored in part for helping to save the life of a racquetball player at Vancouver Tennis Center in March of 2015.
Houser performed CPR on a man who collapsed and who had no detectable heartbeat. After about five minutes of CPR, the man regained consciousness and started breathing, Houser said.
“I just reacted,” Houser recalled. “Every second matters in those situations.”
Houser graduated from Evergreen High School in 2007. After playing four years of tennis for the Plainsmen, he played college tennis at Willamette University in Salem, Ore.
