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Greg Hiers, a USPTA(Pro 1) certified teaching pro, is
the Tennis Center Director at Fred Wells Tennis & Education Center. 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 "Edgilent
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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