About
Coach Steve
Coach Steve is a USPTA tennis professional with over 30 years of tennis management, junior development, and coaching experience in Colorado, Hawaii, California, and Texas.
Steve spent years coaching with and studying under legendary International Hall of Fame Coach Vic Braden, regarded by many as one of the greatest tennis coaches. Coach Steve’s wife Colleen is a highly experienced tennis and pickleball professional, and water fitness instructor. Their daughter was a two-time Colorado state singles champion and played for D1 Boise State. Steve’s family is a tennis family, they love tennis and improving players.
Coach Steve's coaching philosophy is pretty simple: give detailed instructions anyone can understand, simple is better than complicated, learn from every student you teach, fix the one thing that fixes ten things, the laws of science and the dimensions of the court dictates what happens with the ball, and give everything you have to your students.
Steve spent nine years in Hawaii, with seven years on the Big Island and two years on Maui. On the island of Maui he was the Tennis Director at the world-class tennis resort Kapalua and was the Head Boy's Coach at Maui Preparatory Academy. On the Big Island Steve served the dual role as Tennis Director at another world class resort, the Fairmont Orchid and also directed tennis at the Rutgers Tennis Center, on the campus of the international boarding school at Hawaii Preparatory Academy, at HPA he was the Head Boy’s Tennis Coach leading the boy’s team to five consecutive Hawaii Championships.
Steve has worked with USTA in various positions as a coach: Coach USTA Boys 18s Junior Davis Cup, Coach Boys16 Inter-sectionals, Coach for 14s and 12s USTA Zonals, and Team Colorado and has helped with various high-performance training camps. While teaching in Colorado, Steve served on the USTA Intermountain Junior Competitive Committee and was the Intermountain Sectional Tournament Director. Coach Steve throughout his career has coached numerous juniors that have gone on to compete collegiately as well as several that have played professionally.
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The USPTA is the first, and currently the only, USTA-accredited professional teaching organization. Coach Steve is certified at the highest Elite Professional level.
"Steve and Colleen are amazing not only in their tennis knowledge and teaching, but also how welcoming they are. There is not enough praise for these two."
- M.W., Adv. Int.
"I arranged for my HS son to have a place to practice for a week while on vacation. It turned into much more. Steve talked about how to approach tennis strategically. Suggestions about college tennis, making a tennis video . . . these were extras that Steve provided."
- TB.H., Low Int.
"He makes you feel like improving your game is his highest priority. He sincerely wants to help you improve. He spends a lot of time analyzing your strokes. Not only is the coaching excellent, it's affordable, too."
- A.E., Adv. Int.
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