Coach Steve Clark PhD Show

welcome to The Coach Steve Clark PhD Show where the aim is to encourage, inspire and equip coaches, players and parents who in turn inspire and equip others to promote tennis, foster sportsmanship, and develop greater players and people. So thanks for joining me and I hope you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the conversation.

In this podcast I talk with Trevor Kronemann, edited from a 2015 conversation a had with him. Trevor is currently the SCTA (Southern California Tennis Association) Director of Junior Tennis but at the time of this conversation was the head coach at UC Irvine where he not only played and made his mark collegiately but took the reigns after I left, post his professional playing days. It was a pleasure to coach him for those years and develop as a collegiate coach and husband/father.

Trevor (UC Irvine, 1990) was an 4x All-American (one of only a few players at the time to have done that), and among many other accolades was as high as 14 nationally in singles, #1 in doubles at one time, was honored with the National ITA Van Nostrand Award, which goes to a promising collegiate player entering the professional circuit and in 1999 was inducted into the UC Irvine Athletics Hall of Fame.

Trevor was top on a doubles tandem on the ATP that was 3 in the world during his 1990-98 span, participated in all Grand Slam Tournaments, garnered six career ATP Tour Doubles titles and was a finalist in five other championships. As a player, he also served as Vice President of the ATP Tour Player Council. He was coach of Newport Beach Breakers of World Team Tennis and previously served as head coach of the Springfield Lasers for seven seasons which he led to the Western Conference title in 2001. He was named Team Tennis Rookie of the Year as a member of the Charlotte Heat in 1990 and was the league's MVP on two occasions. In 2005, Kronemann was named to the World Team Tennis All-Star 30, a group of the best men's and women's players in the 30-year history of the WTT.

We talk about being a college student-athlete, the transition from college to the professional ranks, parenting and junior tennis, the role of doubles in player development and college tennis, and much more. Thanks for listening in.

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The introduction music is “Let it Rip” by Mike and Bob Bryan band and the narrator is Wayne Bryan. Thanks for your continued support.

Hello everyone, welcome to The Coach Steve Clark PhD Show where the aim is to encourage, inspire and equip coaches, players and parents who in turn inspire and equip others to promote tennis, foster sportsmanship, and develop greater players and people. So thanks for joining me and I hope you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the conversation.

Today I will be talking with long time coaching colleague Allen Fox, PhD, former Pepperdine Head Men’s Tennis. He is a leading sports psychologist, author, speaker, and works with numerous levels of players.  As a collegiate champion, world class player, coach of ATP analyst Brad Gilbert, and great collegiate coach, Allen brings a lot to the table as we talk about the mental game of tennis. I guarantee you will thoroughly enjoy this episode and walk away with applicable nuggets.

Be sure to see CoachSteveClarkPhD.Com for other podcasts, blogs, resources and discussions.

The introduction music is “Let it Rip” by Mike and Bob Bryan band and the narrator is Wayne Bryan. Thanks for your continued support.

Hello everyone, welcome to The Coach Steve Clark PhD Show where the aim is to encourage, inspire and equip coaches, players and parents who in turn inspire and equip others to promote tennis, foster sportsmanship, and develop greater players and people. So thanks for joining me and I hope you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the conversation. Today, we delve into tennis with respect to training, biomechanics, technique, injury prevention etc. Whether you are a parent, player (old or young) or a coach I trust you will walk away with something. 

My guest is Dr. Mark Kovacs, is a performance physiologist, researcher, professor, author, speaker and coach with an extensive background training and researching elite athletes. He is known as the go to expert for elite and professional athletes, corporate executives and performance artists looking for science based programming to optimize human performance. 

As the CEO of the Kovacs Institute, he oversees the direction, testing protocols and athlete monitoring programs along with his staff.  He also consults with the United States Tennis Association, the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association and the International Tennis Performance Association among others.  He holds a PhD in exercise physiology, and speaks from first hand experience as an All American at Auburn University and NCAA doubles champion. You can reach him at Kovacs Institute.

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The introduction music is “Let it Rip” by Mike and Bob Bryan band and the narrator is Wayne Bryan. Thanks for your continued support.

Today I will be talking with Paul Goldstein, Stanford’s Taube Family Director of Men’s Tennis. Like most players that play for and represent Stanford, Paul had a stellar career at from the juniors through college and into the professional ranks. As a junior he was Top 10 in the World, was the first USTA junior in history to win 3 consecutive national championships in 14,16, and 18s. As a collegian (at Stanford 1994-1998) he Lead the Cardinal to 104-6 record, was the 1st player in NCAA history to start on 4 consecutive NCAA Championship teams. He was a 4-time All American, 2-time Aurthur Ashe JR Sportsmanship, recipient of the Rafael Osuna Sportsmanship award, and inducted into the ITA Collegiate Tennis Hall of fame 2013. In the professional ranks, Paul had an ATP high of 58 singles and 40 doubles with a US Open doubles semifinal appearance in 2005. He had wins over Novak Djokovic, James Blake, Lleyton Hewitt and Patrick Rafter. At the time, he was the highest ranked player with a college degree.

Brandon Coupe is the James and Martha Poppy Associate Head Coach of Men’s Tennis. He played for San Jose State University from 1990-94 where he held the school record for most wins in singles and doubles. Unfortunately one of those wins kept one of my players out of the NCAA’s and while fortunately catapulting Brandon into the NCAA’s and his subsequent professional playing stint (this is always a good story we tell the campers when we do camps together). He was an All American, Arthur Ash Sportsmanship Award recipient as well as a recipient of the Rafael Osuna Senior Player of the year and National Van Nostrum Most Improved Player Award. He was a semifinalist at the 1994 NCAA indoor championships. On the professional tour, Brandon played in 14 Grand Slam events, with a high of the 2002 US Open quarterfinals in doubles. He had the pleasure of playing against the likes of Federer, Roddick, Black, Agassi, Hewitt, and Becker. His highest individual doubles ranking was 61 and as a team he was 20 ATP. As a collegiate coach he joined Stanford in 2007 and in 2014 was the ITA NW Region Asst Coach of the Year.

I know you will enjoy the conversation.

Be sure to see CoachSteveClarkPhD.Com for other podcasts, blogs, resources and discussions.

The introduction music is “Let it Rip” by Mike and Bob Bryan band and the narrator is Wayne Bryan. Thanks for your continued support.

Hello everyone, welcome to The Coach Steve Clark PhD Show where the aim is to encourage, inspire and equip coaches, players and parents who in turn inspire and equip others to promote tennis, foster sportsmanship, and develop greater players and people. So thanks for joining me and I hope you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the conversation.

In this podcast you are in for a treat of Hall of Fame, collegiate-tennis-guru, and bar-setting proportions. My guest is long time friend and colleague Dick Gould, the long time head coach of Stanford Men’s Tennis. Coach Gould set the standard of success in collegiate tennis. As a recruiter, consummate promotor of the game and coach to so many national champions, All-Americans, olympians, world class and Grand Slam players, his handprint is impressive.  

And his influence continues as the John L Hinds Director of Tennis At Stanford where he overseas major events (WTA events), community relations, fundraising, and inner city academic-tennis related programs for youth.  He was the head coach for 38 years (1966-2004) at his Alma Mater (BS 1959, MA 1960) where he set the standard of college tennis in many ways (we will get to that later). He is the winningest tennis coach at the Farm 776-148 (.840), won 17 NCAA Team Championships! But the rest stems from this excellence: 10 NCAA Singles Champions, 7 NCAA Doubles Champions, 50 All Americans, and 9 players in top 15 ATP singles and 14 in top 10 doubles. ETC!

But more importantly, and the reasons actually for all the success, Dick is a contagious leader.  He is habitually friendly, optimistic, congratulatory and makes those around him better and feel important.  No wonder all this success follows.

We delve into great wealth of wisdom on these topics and more: Healthy competition, fundraising (Buck Club), how the game has changed, advice to parents and coaches, great coaches that influenced him, etc.

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Welcome to The Coach Steve Clark PhD Show where the aim is to encourage, inspire and equip coaches, players and parents who in turn inspire and equip others to promote tennis, foster sportsmanship, and develop greater players and people. So thanks for joining me and I hope you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the discussion.

In this podcast I discuss my F.O.C.U.S. © philosophy that I have used as a guideline for some 25 years, transformational coaching, between point management, momentum management, etc.

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Peter Smith--Head Men’s Tennis Coach at USC

Hello everyone, welcome to The Coach Steve Clark PhD Show. Thanks for joining me and I hope you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the conversation.

The podcast available below is with my long time friend and coaching colleague, Peter Smith, Head Men’s Tennis coach of USC. He is not only a 5 time Pac 12 coach of the year and a 2 time ITA National Coach of the year but he seems to have figured out how to create a dynasty by winning 5 NCAA championships in 7 years, 4 of them in a 4-pete.

We will be talking on numerous topics some of which are the collegiate transition to the pros, what is success, changes in the game since his earlier days, characteristics of a champion, what is missing in tennis, etc.

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Hello everyone, welcome to The Coach Steve Clark PhD Show. Thanks for joining me and I hope you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the conversation.

The podcast available below is with my good friend Carol Weyman and Cindy Brinker Simmons, daughter of Maureen Connolly. Cindy Brinker Simmons is president of the Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Foundation since 2007. She was in the public relations business for over 20 years having her own company: Brinker Communications. Carol Weyman is executive vice president of the Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Foundation for 25 years. She was tournament director of the Virginia Slims of Dallas in 1989 and founder of the Road to the Little Mo Nationals and the Little Mo Internationals.

If you are not familiar with Little Mo, you can visit their website at Little Mo but in short they have the classiest opportunity regionally, nationally and internationally for youth to play tennis and experience competition the way it is supposed to be done. All ages can play without restriction or funny soft balls. Matches are played to the full. Doubles are played at every event. Sportsmanship is intentionally rewarded. A Grand Slam is awarded as well.

In this podcast we will discuss Little Mo tournaments, Maureen Connolly as a person and player and why the Little Mo Foundation, what are championship characteristics and much more. It is about 50 minutes long so grab comfortable seat and listen in.

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Hello everyone, welcome to The Coach Steve Clark PhD Show. Thanks for joining me and I hope you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the conversation.

Today I have as my guest a very long time friend and coaching colleague who has been a great voice for NCAA tennis and AMERICAN tennis at large, Dave Fish of Harvard Men’s Tennis. Dave is at his 39th year as the Head coach at Harvard. He was a1972 graduate of Harvard, played on 3 national championship squash teams and one Ivy Champion tennis team with the Crimson. Dave has had an impressive 626-284-1 overall record for a .688 percentage making him the winningest men's tennis coach in Harvard history. He guided Harvard into the NCAA Championships 22 times so far. He has tutored 15 All-Americans including James Blake (singles and doubles)

Now achievements aside, Dave will be the first to tell you that more important is the character and integrity of a person. Dave is a great friend on both counts. He is more interested in the development of tennis than the focus being on him so, with that lets get into some topics for our young players, parents, and coaches regarding the NCAA, USTA, the UTR and more.

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Welcome to The Coach Steve Clark PhD Show. Thanks for joining me and I hope you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the conversation. I know this podcast will be very special to thousands of people because of the guest. This is a replay of my visit with Steve Johnson Senior, coach, father and friend of touring professional Stevie Johnson. Steve Sr. leaves an amazing legacy having touched the lives of thousands in the tennis community not only in Southern California but around the world and on the tour. He was a late comer to tennis and coaching having grown up playing baseball and basketball and attending John Wooden basketball camps. But when tennis took hold of him, his way with people and love for the sport catapulted him into being one of the most loved tennis coaches and club directors in Southern California. Steve was always a pleasure to talk with and had a sense of humor and ease about him.

For context, in this podcast we talk about juniors, college and pro tennis, a few things about his son Stevie and especially with the ATP Tour ramping up again this year tune in and support Stevie. Stevie was one of the top juniors in SoCal his entire junior career. He went to USC, leading the team to 4 straight National Championships from 2009-2012. He won the individual title his junior and senior seasons. Stevie left USC as the most decorated player in college history. As a Pro, he broke into the top 100 his first year on tour. Started at around 350 when he left college. Highest ranking was 37 at the end of 2014. He is currently ranked 48. But what I know those around Stevie and his family would say is that Stevie’s friendliness and genuineness resembles his dad. They had a tremendous bond and it is something any parent-coach/child-player would love to emulate. That relational aspect and the people he touched is a huge legacy that Steve Sr. leaves.

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