Tennis
Pro Of The Month September
2015
Frank Giampaolo
(Laguna Beach, California) |
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Playing and
teaching tennis
Frank Giampaolo is a veteran
author who has been coaching tennis since 1987. Born in New York,
Frank grew up in Saudi Arabia because his dad worked there for
the oil companies. And that's where he also started taking tennis
lessons at the age of 13. After returning to the U.S. he played
on his Ohio High School team and became a walk-on player on his
Ohio State college team.
After college, Frank moved to
California and began working for legendary coach Vic Braden at
his Tennis College in Coto de Caza. For the next 15 years he
worked off and on for Vic all over the country and also opened
up Tennis Colleges for him.
The next 4 years Frank worked
as Tennis Operations Manager at Sherwood Country Club in Westlake
Village in the San Fernando Valley. It is there where he met
Sam Querrey for the first time and coached him for two years,
from age 12-14.
Frank Giampaolo pioneered the
Tennis Parents Workshop in 1998 and has conducted seminars throughout
the United States, Mexico, Australia, and Canada.
In 2002 Frank moved to Laguna
Beach in Orange County and became Tennis Director at the Lake
Forest Beach and Tennis Club where he started coaching high performance
nationally ranked players. In 2002 he also founded the Mental-Emotional
Tennis Workshop; since then, participants in the program have
gone on to win more than 75 U.S. national titles. His students
have won ATP and WTA Tour singles and doubles titles.
Giampaolo's innovative approach
has earned him numerous honors, including being named the 2001
USPTA Southern California Tennis Director of the Year and being
voted a top teaching professional in consecutive years by Southern
California Tennis & Golf magazine. |
Eliminating
the disconnect between parents and coaches
The last 3 years Frank Giampaolo
spent writing books about the subjects he had taught for so many
years and traveling all over the country and abroad. Books, seminars,
workshops became his life.
- His Tennis Parents Workshops
have been changing lives since 1998 with seminars throughout
the United States, Mexico, Australia, Israel, New Zealand, and
Canada.
- His Raising Athletic Royalty
Workshop is approved and recommended by the USPTA as a specialty
course. His workshops take place both on and off-court.
- His Mental Emotional Workshops
were introduced in 2002; since then, participants in the program
have gone on to win more than 75 U.S. national titles.
Frank says, "I coach the
coaches to eliminate the disconnect between parents and coaches
in tennis, baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, swimming,
gymnastics." He loves what he's doing and is very passionate
about it, crediting much of his success to providing a customized
plan for kids and their "entourage" (parents, coaches).
"My customized plan includes, for instance, job descriptions
for parents so they know what to do, what to expect, how to behave,
how to support their kids. I have examples of kids improving
from a section ranking of 150 to 10 because of a change in their
entire organizational plan." |
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THE TENNIS PARENTS BIBLE is an organizational manual designed
to assist parents and coaches through the mental and emotional
complexities of raising a world class young adult through the
game of tennis. |
CHAMPIONSHIP TENNIS is an invaluable essential guide to
developing and improving your tennis game. The purpose of this
book is to assist players and coaches in developing every aspect
of the modern game at an accelerated rate. |
Whichever the chosen sport, RAISING
ATHLETIC ROYALTY provides essential insights, motivational
quotes and perfect phrases to assist parents and coaches to inspire
greatness in their children |
Sooner or later, every parent asks:
Is my child good enough to obtain a college sports scholarship?
HOW TO ATTRACT A COLLEGE ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPs intent
is to enlighten athletes and their parents about the college
athletic scholarship search process |
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Frank's plans
Frank Giampaolo can't stand still,
he is always working, writing (from 5 to 7 am each day) and planning
new workshops, such as
- September 18 he'll be holding
a fun workshop with tennis legend Johan Krieg in Charlotte, North
Carolina. The day includes a Mental Emotional Tennis workshop
with high performance players and a Tennis Parents workshop.
- In the near future he'll be
doing workshops at the Marguerite Tennis Center in Mission Viejo,
California.
- Frank is planning more Raising
Athletic Royalty workshops all over the country.
The second edition of his bestselling
book "The Tennis Parent's Bible" will come out in the
fall of 2015. |
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TENNIS CLUB
BUSINESS reviewed Frank
Giampaolo's book The Tennis Parent's Bible in the September
2014 issue.
TENNIS CLUB BUSINESS
reviewed Frank Giampaolo's book Raising Athletic Royalty in the
April
2015 issue.
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Congratulations to Frank Giampaolo
for becoming our Tennis Pro of the Month for September 2015. |
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