Lucy M.

I started coaching when I was still in high school, mostly coaching 4-10 year olds. I then moved to coaching middle schoolers and underclassmen. In college I worked with youth in the neighborhood - most of them it was their first exposure to tennis. Since then, I have worked at a tennis program in Boston urban schools named Tenacity, where we empower youth through tennis and literacy.

I was three year varsity captain on the women's tennis at Occidental College in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) - one of the best D3 women's tennis conferences in the country.

I start out with a warmup (that I do with a client as well) and then start with small strokes at the service line - If volleys are the focus that day, then the warmup at the net will reflect that. Then I generally do some drills, and then rallying for the client to practice what we were focusing on.