ParentingAces - The Junior Tennis and College Tennis Podcast

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 34, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa chats with Fellow Tennis Parent, Hugo Aguirre. When you have multiple children playing the same sport, oftentimes you can simply repeat the developmental process with each child. Tennis, however, is different. What works for one child won't necessarily work for th...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 34, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, we focus on off-court strength and conditioning with certified coach James Shapiro. James grew up playing junior tennis then moved into the coaching realm. He realized there was a missing piece when it came to the off-court training for young players - there were fitne...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 33, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa checks back in with Coach Heath Waters of Match Tennis App about their latest feature upgrades. We all know how challenging it can be to figure out which tournaments your child should be playing. USTA? Universal Tennis? ITF? Pro Circuit? Adult Open? There are so m...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 32, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa has as her guests two coaches who are going against the grain in terms of their approaches to junior tennis development. Todd Widom and JY Aubone grew up training with "old school" coaches who used "old school" methods. Since it served them both so well in terms o...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 31, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa continues her look at life after junior tennis with current college player, Allie McCray. Allie grew up in Marietta, Georgia, the same Atlanta suburb as Lisa's family. Even more coincidentally, Allie trained as a junior player at the same facility where Lisa's son...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 30, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week's episode is a follow-up to our recent podcast with Coach Todd Widom discussing the prevalence of international players in Division I tennis.  In the previous episode, Todd and Lisa talked about some of the factors contributing to DI college coaches recruiting a majority...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 29, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa chats with NAIA Men's and Women's Tennis Coach, Chance Joost. You recently heard Lisa and Todd Widom discuss the prevalence of international players in Division I tennis and some ideas to increase the chances for American players to be recruited successfully. But,...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 28, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa chats with Ryan Redondo, former top junior and college player, coach, and now Grower of Tennis in his home community of San Diego, California. Lisa and Ryan first met when Ryan recruited Lisa's son to play college tennis for him at University of the Pacific in Nort...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 27, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . In this week's episode, Coach Todd Widom joins Lisa to discuss what American junior tennis players need to do to become competitive in the eyes of Division I college coaches. The conversation has been going on for years now - why are there so many international players on US colle...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 26, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . In this week's episode, Lisa talks with Shelia Townsend, former junior and college player, current coach and Tennis Parent, and the creator of 4 the Love . The mission of 4 the Love is to develop the skills of its clients to the status they strive to achieve - whether it be high s...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 25, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa chats with Erik Kortland, former college and professional player and current coach and business person, about his latest venture, RKT Group, Inc. After his playing career, Erik started at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles as Head of Elite Player and Academy D...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 24, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa talks with fellow tennis parent, Lianne Mandelbaum, about keeping our players who have food allergies safe on and off the court. Lianne's son, Josh, has a severe allergy to peanuts which she has taught him to manage well over the years. However, when Josh had to g...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 23, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa's son, Morgan Stone, rejoins the podcast to discuss his life after tennis. The last time we checked in with Morgan, he was working in tech sales in the California Bay area. He had graduated from San Jose State by way of Santa Clara University and Boise State Unive...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 22, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . In this week's episode, Lisa talks with Lavie Sak, a coach who recognized a need for an update to the commonly-used tennis gear currently on the market then started a business to solve for that need. ADV Tennis products have been created by designers and engineers who play, coach...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 21, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . Coach Todd Widom is back for this episode to discuss Old School (or, as he calls it, Proper School) coaching versus New School coaching. Then the conversation segues into how best to utilize the information provided by ratings and rankings. This is a good one! Todd grew up being...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 20, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . In this week's episode, Lisa talks with George Opelka, Tennis Parent to ATP professional, Reilly Opelka, and the Head of Pro Player Relations and Head of Community (Southeast) for SwingVision . For those of you who might be new to our podcast, you may not have heard of SwingVisio...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 19, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . In this week's episode, Lisa talks with Chris Boyer, a fellow Tennis Parent and a founding committee member for the new Southern California Pro Circuit. Per a press release Lisa received: The SoCal Pro Circuit is a transitional tour designed to create a path to the pro ranks for...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 18, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . Coach JY Aubone is back to discuss how junior players and their parents and coaches can best manage both the mental and physical challenges during the course of tournament competition. Both JY and Lisa have been asked numerous times about the best way for a junior player to manag...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 17, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, we've got something a little different on tap. ParentingAces creator and founder, Lisa Stone, does a deep dive into the ParentingAces platform, including ParentingAces.com and its social media channels. Learn how best to use the website, Facebook page and groups, Twitt...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 16, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa chats with coach Todd Widom about how parents should go about selecting a short-term training or camp experience for their junior players. The topic of summer camps and Spring Break training opps comes up pretty regularly in the ParentingAces community. There are...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 15, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa chats with Brett Connors, current producer at the Tennis Channel and son of World Number 1, Jimmy Connors, and his wife, model Patti McGuire. Growing up as the child of world-famous parents can be a pressure cooker. You're always being held up in the world's eye t...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 14, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, the topic is developing great competitors as opposed to simply great ball strikers. Coach Jonathan Stokke, a former college coach and current junior developmental coach, shares his strategies with the ParentingAces audience. Jonathan grew up playing tennis and went on...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 13 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . In this week's episode, Lisa chats with the founder of the Reformed Sports Project , Nick Buonocore. As a former top youth and collegiate baseball player himself, and now as a youth coach and father, Nick Buonocore well knows and understands the challenges facing youth sports deve...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 12, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa chats with Ryan Carney, current head men's and women's coach at Missouri Valley College and director of Collegiate Exposure Camps . Coach Ryan Carney is entering his 19th season as a college head coach. As the Camp Director of Collegiate Exposure Camps, Coach Carn...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 11, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa chats with Marcelo Ferreira, a former college coach ( Texas Tech , Pepperdine ) who is now running his own junior tennis development program in the Atlanta area. After graduating from Georgia College & State University in 2006, Marcelo remained in Milledgevill...