About your pickleball coach

Experienced Pickleball pro focused on growing the sport in Round Rock and Austin. I began playing tennis with my father at the age of 12. After moves to Arkansas and Germany my dad took me to the tennis, racquetball, pickleball, and squash courts to teach me the variety of those fast paced sports including the agony of defeat while our family moved around for the Air Force. He taught me how to play and compete. After learning and competing for a few years, I have had the privilege of passing on the game of tennis to thousands of young people including my younger brother who went on to play in 3 straight state tournaments in Texas along with 35 other high schoolers where 16 state titles were won. I have always taught or coached something but I officially began my tennis pro career at a Country Club as an assistant pro and started my pickleball coaching a few years after that. After a few lessons I was hooked for life. Teaching Pickleball to kids and adults is like not working at all plus the fun of working outside was just too hard to give up. Four years later, I became a Head Pro where I helped develop several state champions and highly ranked junior players. Then a chance to coach basketball came along so I loaded up the truck, with the help of my older brother and moved to the Austin area where I am also able to teach both tennis and Pickleball at Clay Madsen Rec Center while I was coaching track tennis, and Basketball at an inner city school..