Vanguard University

Mattias Johansson started as the men's coach tennis coach in 1997 and assumed the coaching duties of the women's side in 2000. He soon turned the programs into perenial contenders in the Golden State Athletic Conference and the program as a whole was soon known througout the NAIA world.  His women won three GSAC regular season crowns and took the Tournament trophy in both 2013 and 2014.  The men five regular season titles, highlighted by going 32-0 over the final three years of the program in GSAC play to take three-straight titles.  The men also won the Tournament in those 2013-2015 seasons and the made the NAIA Naitonal Tournament.  

The last 13 seasons as the head coach, he directed the VU men's team to a 200-104 record, earning his 100th win near the end of the 2003 season and his 200th at the NAIA National Tournament last season. Vanguard's men's tennis program has won or co-championed three regular season GSAC Championships (1996, 1999, 2000), two GSAC/Region II Postseason Tournaments (1995, 1998), and have been ranked in the NAIA top 25 every year. Since Johansson's involvement with the program, the VU men's tennis team has advanced to the NAIA National Tournament in 14 of the last 15 seasons. The team's highest finish was in 2000 when the Lions tied for third place. Four of the past five seasons, the Lions made it to the quarterfinals of the NAIA National Tournament before exiting in a tie for fifth place.

Johansson has been actively teaching tennis since he was fourteen and has competed in tennis for well over twenty years. In 1999, he was honored as the GSAC Men's Tennis Coach of the Year and in 2005 he was named the Region II Co-Coach of the Year for the first time in his career. 

Mattias earned a BA in Exercise Sports Science and a BA in Business Administration at Vanguard, graduating in 1996.  While attending the school, Johansson played successfull on the VU team for two years, accumulating a 41-18 record in his two-years as the number one singles player for the Lions. He also attained his Master's degree in Business at National University in 2001.