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Greg Hiers,
USPTA(Pro 1), coaches 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 Stillwater 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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