Justin H.

About Me

My family has been around tennis for more than 55 years, starting with my mom and dad playing for Oakland University in Michigan, and my older brother and I picked up rackets right away, and instantly got attached to the game. I believe I was three years old when I first started doing tennis lessons in Owatonna, Minnesota. At age four I moved to Eden Prairie, MN where I started playing tennis at Northwest Athletic Club - Crosstown (now Lifetime Fitness - Crosstown). I kept playing tennis throughout my youth years and started playing tournaments at eight years oId, and started qualifying for national tournaments at age 11 for boy's 12 & under, and that basically started my junior career for nationals throughout 14's, 16's and 18's. Throughout my junior playing I trained at Flagship Tennis Academy by head coach Ryan Dussalt and the Gopher Tennis Academy by Viet Pham, both in Minnesota.

For high school tennis I started varsity for five years and played for the Eagles at Eden Prairie High School. Throughout the five years I played No. 1 and 2 singles. My freshman year my partner and I place third in doubles and my senior year I placed second in singles of the state tournament.

For college tennis I played for Eastern Illinois my freshman year playing 4, 5, and 6 singles and 1 doubles, behind our number 1 singles player I had the best record on the team. I then got injured and left Eastern Illinois and took a 2 years off of playing but continued to coach. I then decided to go play 1 more year for at Mesa Community College in Arizona since I had some eligibility left. I played number 1, 3, 4, 5 singles and 1 doubles. Being undefeated in the ACCAC we qualified for nationals, I won 1 round of singles, and 1 round of doubles, we finished 10th in the nation.

After playing for MCC, I had other opportunities to play at some NAIA school's since my eligibility was over for NCAA schools, but I decided to stay in the Phoenix area and go to ASU and focus more on coaching and facility management.

Teaching Style

My teaching style varies from player to player and the goals they want to set for themselves. I emphasize having consistency with weapons and my favorites to teach are a killer forehand and a big serve.

Teaching Locations = Travel Radius = Preferred Court

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