About this speaker
Southern California 2011 USPTA Tennis Pro of the Year…published author…Tennis Channel Celebrity…keynote speaker…tennis entrepreneur…elite member of the Babolat Advisory Team – Mary Pat Faley can be described in five words: A spirit of boundless energy! She is the Director of Tennis at the Riviera Country Club in California.
A “Tennis Pro’s Pro” – Mary Pat is committed to sharing her tennis teaching secrets with tennis pros and players all over the country. After publishing a blueprint for healthy living on and off the court – Winning in Tennis and Life in 2009, Mary Pat went on to produce a series of YouTube videos in 2011 demonstrating the unique, action-packed tennis drills that made her a success on and off the court. The summer of 2013, she launched her new program, Mary Pat’s Force of Three – designed to help tennis professionals run productive, challenging tennis drills for groups of 4-10 players on the tennis court. She was a featured tennis professional on the Tennis Channel series Celebrity Tennis– showcasing her Mary Pat’s Force of III method of playing tennis. She has also been featured in many one-minute clinics on the Tennis Channel. The book, “Winning in Tennis and Life” is now also available on kindle and eBook from Amazon.com, as well as her website.
Mary Pat played tennis at University of Alabama, Birmingham on a full scholarship and she was sectionally and nationally ranked. She has coached middle school, high school and college tennis – working with thousands of players, many who have gone on to receive college scholarships and national rankings. Many of her students have become full time tennis professionals at various clubs around the country.
Mary Pat’s teaching method is deceptively simple – if you can count you can play tennis. She also stresses the importance of physical and mental training and she has developed a TNT program – Tennis…Nutrition…and Training.