Justin
P. Clark has an extensive record of accomplishment in tennis, as a player and
coach in the U.S. Tennis Association and U.S. Professional Tennis Association
& Professional Tennis Registry; he has been certified by the governing
instructor's association [USPTA and USPTR] since 1996. He has been educated from Sierra Nevada
College, Incline Village, Nevada, receiving a Master of Arts in Teaching
Education, July 2011, and an AB in Economics and Minor in Philosophy from Elon
College in North Carolina, in 1996. He
has continued his education through the USPTA, USPTR, NCAA, and the USTA.
Mr. Clark successfully obtained a
NCAA National Team Ranking as high as 5th while on Elon's tennis
team. He acted as the Director of Tennis
Operations, and Division I coach, at the University of Wyoming, Laramie,
Wyoming in 2002-2003. Prior to that, in
2000-2002, he was employed at Washington & Lee University, in Lexington,
Virginia, as the Assistant Director, Duchossios Tennis Center, and Assistant
Women's Tennis Coach, successfully obtaining Division III National Ranking as
high as 2nd and 5th.
In 1998-2000 he was at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.,
as the Assistant Men's Tennis Coach, Division I, gaining ITA National Ranking
as high as 24. In 1997-1998 Justin Clark
served as the Assistant Men's and Women's Tennis Coach at High Point
University, High Point, N.C. and as Assistant Coach, Division II, successfully
gaining National Ranking 8th.
As a post-college-graduate Mr. Clark
has worked professionally for Dennis Ralston, a Tennis Hall of Fame Member and
Director of Tennis at the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado and CopperWynd Resort in
Arizona; Rod Ishida, Hometown High
School Tennis Coach and USTA Grass Roots Community Tennis Director; Larry Karageanas, USPTA National
Speaker; Oscar Blacutt, Bolivian Davis
Cup Player and Junior coach of John Isner;
Cinda Rankin, Division III National Coach of the Year; Eric Hayes, Division I Men's Tennis Coach and
Palmer Tennis Academy Tour Coach; and
Pat Fagen, Tahoe Tennis Academy and Nevada State Tennis Hall of Fame
Member. He has also served as an
Administrator/tennis coach for the Southwest Virginia Area Training Center.
As a player, Mr. Clark has excelled
at tennis for well over 20 years. He was
an NCAA ITA National Collegiate Team Member and Coach from 1991-1996 and
1997-2003, and traveled and played in the USTA National Junior Circuit in the
late 1980's. He competed on the Elon
College team, participating in National Rankings as high as 5th, and
was recognized as the Most Improved Collegiate Player his senior year and
undefeated in singles and doubles for the team in National Championship
Tournaments. Moving on to the USTA
Satellite Circuit, he played and defeated Former NCAA National Ranked Players
as high as 71st, and ATP World-Ranked players as high as #450. In 1989 he received the Sportsmanship Award
from the Western Tennis Association, and in 1995 he was awarded the Scholarship
Award for Most Improved College Player.
In 2002 he was the Honorary Coach of
the Year for the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. His Extensive experience in the industry has
led to his being published, including as a contributor to the prestigious
primary journal, Tennis Magazine (e.g. see "Drill Seekers", May, 2004
issue), and he is the author of Quick Feet and other published tennis-related
advisory materials. He has coached in
the prestigious Blue/Grey Tennis Classic, in Montgomery, Alabama, and has been
in all variety of other prestigious tournaments since he was a young teenager.
Mr. Clark has coached over ten
All-American level Collegiate student-athletes, and four college teams, all
with national rankings; in addition local, sectional and national junior
players during his coaching tenure. He
is now the Director of South Tahoe High School Tennis and the Boy's Tennis
Coach at South Lake Tahoe High School (Jeannine his wife is the Girls Tennis
Coach) where their teams have been the finalists in the Northern Nevada Region
in 2009 and the Nevada Regional Team Finalist qualifying for the 2010 State
Tennis Championship for the first time in the school’s 40 year history; also in
2010 the Girl’s Team Qualified for the Nevada State Tournament for the first
time in history and were Nevada Academic State Champions; and have added three
more with the girls in 2011 & 2012 and the boys with a runner up in 2011
and a state qualifier in 2012. During
the past 8 years he has developed seven doubles teams and 6 singles Nevada
State Qualifiers. They both have continued State Team Qualifications with a second girl’s team and a first boy’s team to
qualify in 2012. Overall, his teams have
won the regional team championships 2 times, runner-up 6 times, qualified
for Nevada State Team Championships 6 times, won 5 Nevada Academic State Championships
(Highest Team GPA in Nevada), and qualified over 20 players to top 8 in Nevada
Interscholastic Athletic Association while working with the South Lake Tahoe
High School tennis teams since 2007.
He is also the Owner and Director of
the Tahoe Tennis Academy in South Lake Tahoe, California, and started the first
South Tahoe Middle School after school tennis program in 2009, and holds an
adjunct faculty position teaching Lake Tahoe Community College tennis (2008 –
2013) and badminton courses in 2010. He
has also been working for the Carson City School District as a teacher. Currently, Justin is a 3rd grade
teacher and looking forward to teaching the youth in the area life skills
through hard work and dedication and perseverance; developing players to learn
how to win and lose like a champion, but understanding individual skills and
happiness!