David Meyer, the boys tennis coach at Cedar Rapids Washington High School, has died.

"It was last night or this morning," Paul James, Washington's activities director, said Saturday morning.

Meyer was a special education teacher at the school. His death apparently was sudden and unexpected.

"I just talked to him for 10 minutes yesterday," said Dennis Goettel, who previously served as Washington's activities director. "I hired him."

James and Goettel said Meyer was diabetic, but they did not know if that contributed to his death. "I'm not sure of any of the details," said James.

Meyer was starting his sixth year as Washington's boys tennis coach, according to James.

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