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(Lesson Rates and Email Link Below)
Greg Hiers, a USPTA(Pro 1) certified teaching pro, is
the Director of Tennis Programs at Fred Wells Tennis & Education Center fall through spring. During the summer months,
Greg serves as Tennis Director at the historic St. Paul Tennis Club.
A "P1" rating is the highest ranking
attainable of the three levels within the tennis teaching association (excluding "Master Pro" classification). Greg
is also a certified USTA High Performance Coach. He has also attained the USTA's Level I Competency for Sport Science and
has attended several tennis coaching workshops across the country. Greg currently coaches numerous high school varsity players,
sectionally ranked players as well adults of all ability levels.
During the summer, Greg is Tournament Director
for the "Men's Open Clay Court Sectional Championships" and runs "Play the Clay" Tennis Camps for adults
and juniors. Every winter he goes to Florida and observes coaching at the top junior tennis academies to study the latest
training techniques and trends in the game. Greg lives in St. Paul with his wife, Joele; son, Cason and daughter, Josie.
Greg was born and raised in Florida, living in Tampa through junior high school then moving to Boca Raton. These
cities are two of the "hot-beds" of professional tennis in this country. This certainly had an effect on his early
love of the sport and his desire to make a career out of it (this being the only job he has really ever had!).
Prior
to arriving in Minnesota in 1996, Greg was employed at the San Francisco Tennis Club. There he served as Assistant then Head
Coach for Northern California's Area Training Center, the training program for the nation's top junior players. Greg graduated
from Ferris State University in Michigan with a B.S. in Marketing degree combined with a major in "Professional Tennis
Management" (PTM), a unique program that prepares its students for careers in the tennis industry. He played for Webber
College in Florida for one year before suffering a shoulder injury which cut short his collegiate play, but did not deter
his desire to continue working in the tennis industry.
During his senior year in college, Greg served as Assistant
Coach for the Div. II nationally ranked FSU Women's Team. He spent his summers during college working as the Assistant Head
Pro at clubs in Boca Raton, Florida (for one full year prior to college); Greenwich, Connecticut; Louisville, Kentucky; and
Honolulu, Hawaii.
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