Hello and thank you for visiting my site.  I consider myself to be a student of the game of tennis with a high level of mastery.

Chuck Cooper gave me my first tennis lesson when I was six years old, but I did not really take up the game until I was eleven.  I played some junior tournaments, mostly in the summers, and competed on two high school teams.  While playing No. 1 singles for Kentucky Country Day, I met my college tennis coach, Jack Ebel, who offered me a scholarship to Transylvania University with a handshake agreement that he could get me accepted to this academically rigorous school.

I began my college career playing No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles with Frank Wolny from Germany.  I made it to the quarterfinals of the singles in our conference and the finals in doubles, which allowed us to be invited to the NAIA national tournament in Kansas City.  In my final two years of college I played No.1 singles and won our conference singles competition individually once and as a team twice.  

After college I decided to travel the world and compete on the Satellite tour.  After about nine months on the tour, I met an older player, Sylvano Simonne, in Asia.  He encouraged me to read Jim Loehr's book The Mental Game of Tennis.  I also entered a Challenger event in Singapore and had my first real tennis-induced altered state of consciousness, otherwise known as "The Zone." From this experience I earned 5 ATP doubles points and a world ranking of 950.  

After about a year and a half of the Satellites, I returned to the United States and moved to Southern California to earn my master's degree in clinical psychology with an emphasis in family and marriage counseling from Pepperdine University.  Since then I have taken advantage of the year-round tennis climate and stiff competition that exists in SoCal.  I have been ranked as high as No. 15 in singles and been to the finals of the Open Sectionals in doubles.  This year I was double match point and serving to be the No. 1 SoCal 35s singles player.  

On the international level, I began traveling again in 1999 after resigning from a two-year stint as the head men's tennis coach at Loyola Marymount University.  I have reclimbed the ATP rankings as high as No. 990 in doubles and am focused on an international singles breakthrough.  I am currently No. 259 in the USTA National Men's Open singles rankings. 

Some of the pros who have shared their knowledge with me are Robert Lansdorp, Frank McDonald, Chris Post, Del Purcell, Daniel Upton, Steve Stefanki, and Susan and Larry Kline, but I attribute much of my success to two coaches, John Hillebrand and Pete Fisher, who have worked with me over the past seven years.  For 14 years John coached Jimmy Pugh, who achieved a career high world ranking of 37 in singles and won eight grand slams in doubles.  Pete was the original mentor of Pete Sampras.  In my mind, Jimmy and Pete are the most successful male players to come out of L.A. in the late 80s and 90s.

Pete Fisher continues to work with me on my serve, and I have recently had a breakthrough about the level of physical strength it takes to make it on the ATP tour. These days I am focused on getting stronger and fitter through Sports Lab technology as well as constantly improving my posture with the Egoscue Method. I have big plans of opening a training facility for posture alignment and fitness training near my home in San Pedro and am looking for a space to do so. 

I am still climbing my own mountains as a player, but I also love teaching others who want to maximize their tennis potential.