ParentingAces - The Junior Tennis and College Tennis Podcast
Host Lisa Stone discusses the various aspects of developing a tennis player from beginner through the juniors to college and beyond. Her weekly guests include experts in coaching, parenting, mental toughness, fitness & nutrition, technology & equipment, and college recruiting. Stone provides invaluable information for parents, players, and coaches.
Episodes
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 28 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, Jerry Lynch and John O'Sullivan are back to discuss their new book on leadership in youth sports.
Dr. Jerry Lynch, one of the world’s top leadership, performance and team culture specialists, is the founder of Way of Champions, a science-backed, values-based, vision-driven, progressive and pragmatic movement to help leaders, coaches, athletes, and perform...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 27 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, UTR Sports CEO and Senior Vice President, Mark Leschly and Chase Hodges, are back to discuss the latest happenings in ratings, recruiting, and player pathways.
We've seen a lot of news recently about UTR and its elimination from the TennisRecruiting.net website as well as the MatchTennis app. Mark and Chase talk about those relationships as well as their new re...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 26 of the ParentingAces Podcast! In this week's podcast, Danielle McNamara is back to take a deep look at the current college tennis landscape and how the NCAA's proposed rule changes could affect recruits and transfer athletes.
Danielle McNamara was the women’s tennis head coach at Yale from 2006-14, and 2016-21. She was also the head coach at Texas from 2014-15. She played college tennis at...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 25 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, Lisa speaks with high school tennis player, Sid Chalamalasetty, about his new app, MatchGenie.
Sid has been playing competitive tennis while also pursuing a challenging education at The Roxbury Latin School in the Boston area. As he made his way through tournaments, he wished for access to the type of in-depth analytics available to professional players. That l...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 24 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, we compare what is happening in junior tennis development in the US vs Australia with coaches John Thompson and Kelsey Lewis.
John and Kelsey host the Tennis Talk 101 podcast and had me on as a guest in 2024 (click https://open.spotify.com/episode/3MSDPeRxY842W4G3OnNSqs to listen). They are committed to educating coaches, players, and parents about what it take...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 23 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week's guest, Chris Boyer, is a Tennis Parent as well as someone who has worked closely with the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and is here to offer his insights into what makes tennis a hard sport.
Chris's professional background as a nationally award-winning marketing executive for brands including Coca-Cola, The North Face, GEICO, the New York Mets, Bosto...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 22 of the ParentingAces Podcast! The term "high-performance" gets thrown around with abandon in the world of Junior Tennis. This week, we hear from a coach and 2 of his players what a high-performance developmental program truly looks like.
Coach Sukhwa Young grew up in the unlikely-for-tennis-players place of Alaska. When he fell in love with tennis, his family quickly realized it would be difficult to ...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 21 of the ParentingAces Podcast! In this episode, one of the world's leading tennis writers, Joel Drucker, joins me to discuss what's new in the world of junior tennis coaching, instruction, and competition.
Over the last 40 years, Joel's stories have been published in a wide range of media outlets including Tennis.com, Tennis Channel, HBO, CBS, the New York Times, and many more. He's also the Historian-...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 20 of the ParentingAces Podcast. This week, sport psychology professional, Brian Lomax, digs into the work Tennis Parents can do for themselves that will benefit their junior player on and off the court.
Dr. Brian Lomax has been playing tennis for over 45 years and has been ranked in various divisions in New England and at the National level. He has always been a student of the mental game and in 2...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 19 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, we dive into the player data of Division I college tennis with a former DI golf (yes, golf!) coach from Norway, Mikkel Bjerk-Andresen.
A few weeks ago, Coach Todd Widom texted me an article he had read showing the increasing number of international players on Division I college tennis teams. Given that this has been a recurring topic of conversation since Paren...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 18 of the ParentingAces Podcast! In this episode, Lisa is joined by former top junior and college players, Madison Harrison and Natalie Suk.
Both of these young women were raised in very successful tennis families. Madison's father, Pat, was a top junior player who went on to have a successful college career before turning to coaching. Her brothers, Ryan and Christian, both found success on the ATP tour....
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 17 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, Lisa is joined by Randall Scott, author of THE INNER WAY OF TENNIS.
Randy has had an interesting journey through junior and college tennis that led him to high-performance coaching around the world. While he had struggled tremendously with his emotions on court, Randy recognized that existing tennis programs didn't seem to be addressing the training of the ment...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 16 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, former college coach, Hannah Keeling, is back to share with us her new position with BUNKR.
BUNKR is an online platform providing security for a player's, family's, and team's most vulnerable personal and financial information and safeguarding their communications while they travel. .
Several hundred highly ranked professional tennis players and their teams tru...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 15 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, Coach Rod Ray is back to talk about his role as "coach" to Wofford tennis players and what he looks for in recruits.
Rod has been coaching for 26 years, and he's seen so many changes to tennis development and the college recruiting process. Underneath it all, however, wanting "good people" on his team has never changed. Rod explains what that means to him - hin...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 14 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, we learn about a new app to help tennis families find a court any time, whether at home or while traveling to a tournament.
CourtsApp, the first AI-powered marketing andbooking platform built to modernize court marketing and reservations, helps players instantly find and book open courts for tennis, TYPTI, pickleball, padel, and more. Bonus: you can download an...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 13 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, Tennis Parent Greg Gilbert shares his family's tennis journey from the early days through the college recruiting process.
The Junior Tennis Journey is a long and winding road. Greg candidly shares the things his family did well as well as the mistakes they made along the way. Daughter Ariana will be playing college tennis beginning Fall 2026, but her path to co...
Welcome to this Bonus Episode of the ParentingAces Podcast!Y'all should be very familiar with Coach Todd Widom by now and know he is not afraid to speak his mind. In this episode, we discuss Todd's latest social media posts about the Easter Bowl going to a 10-point tiebreaker in lieu of a full 3rd set given the extreme heat during the early days of this year's tournament. Todd and I would both love to hear your thoughts so please s...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 12 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, sport psychology coach, Josh Burger, joins the pod to dig deeper into the mental side of tennis for both players and parents.
Josh is a former Division I tennis coach at Sacred Heart University and also coached at the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He is a sport psychology professional who works with tennis players of different ages and levels, mostly junio...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 11 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, Lisa is joined by Chairman and CEO of TYPTI Inc., founder of the Tennis Channel, former President of Kodak, and fellow Tennis Parent, Steve Bellamy.
**This episode does contain some 4-letter swear words so please use caution before showing to young children**TYPTI is a new racquet sport played on a standard pickleball court with a 22-inch strung racquet, a 3.5-...
Welcome to Season 15 Episode 10 of the ParentingAces Podcast! This week, Lisa is joined by the team behind Winning Parents, a UK-based organization educating tennis parents across The Pond.
Dr. Liya Jacob is a Lifestyle Medicine Physician, Clinical Nutritionist, Health & Life Coach, and a Tennis Parent. After noticing a lack of support for her peers in the Junior Tennis world, she teamed up with Ellie-Rose Griffiths, a former UK...
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