Mary Pat Faley is a keynote speaker, tennis coach, Tennis Channel celebrity and 25 year USPTA (United States Professional Tennis Association) member. She recently just won the 2010 USPTA California Pro of the Year, and has also won the 2009 USPTA California District 2 Pro of the Year.  She was also one of the premiere speakers at the USPTA World Conference in Palm Springs, Calif. in 2010. In 2009 Mary Pat published a book, “Winning in Tennis and Life” - a personal blue print for healthy living written to help tennis players achieve success on and off the court.  In addition last year, Mary Pat was a featured tennis professional on the Celebrity Tennis series on the Tennis Channel – featuring her Tennis is as Simple as 1-2-3 method of playing tennis.

Mary Pat played tennis at University Of Alabama, Birmingham on a full scholarship and she was sectionally and nationally ranked.  She has coached high school and college tennis – working with hundreds of players 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.

She has developed her own teaching methods, such as:
• Playing tennis is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
• Tennis strategies, both singles and doubles are as easy as 1, 2, 3.
• “Tennis by Numbers,” if you can count, you can play tennis.
• “TNT, which is a program designed for Tennis and Training.”

Mary Pat divides her time between Southern California – where she lives and works as a tennis professional at Calabasas Tennis & Swim Center in Calabasas, California - and the professional tennis speaking circuit where she works as a speaker/consultant.  She is USPTA certified and she is available to speak at your tennis facility and share the “secrets” to her successful 30 year tennis teaching career.  She was a real estate broker, is a professional speaker, is a life coach, and is a NASM certified personal trainer.  Her spirit is one of boundless energy.  She resides in Encino, California with her family.