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writing skills to author Proud Parents’ Guide to Raising Athletic, Balanced, and Coordinated Kids, which won 34 publishing awards. As a player, Ronney received an NCAA All-Conference singles and doubles honors from California State University Northridge. She is currently the Director of Marketing for SCTA Foundation. Karen is honored to present the ROG Pathway in this USPTA California Conference.

A Compass of Competencies in the Red-Orange-Green Pathway

Developing a tennis player is not a race to the yellow ball but more like a long distance marathon. Ever wonder about the steps from moving a student through each milestone of tennis fundamentals from Red to Orange Ball, Orange to Green, and Green to Yellow? It’s something many pros ponder. For example, when should you introduce the various grips, spins, footwork, swinging volleys and slice serves? When should kids start competing? How do you teach a positive competitive mindset while developing strokes in the ROG Pathway? This workshop will help you with guidelines to structure your lessons in a game based methodology while paving the road to your students’ tennis success.

John Embree

John began as CEO/Executive Director of the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) in October, 2012. Prior to joining the USPTA, Embree has held a wide variety of influential tennis industry roles for more than 40 years. They include serving as President of Prince Sports, The Americas; President of Balle de Match LLC; and spent 17 years at Wilson Sporting Goods Co. where he held a variety of positions including Vice President/General Manager, Racquet Sports Division. In addition, he launched a tennis consulting practice in 2010 to assist endemic brands, associations and new corporate entities in maximizing their impact in the tennis marketplace. His client list included the USTA, Intercollegiate Tennis Association, Peter Burwash International (PBI), OTG (Off the Grid) Technologies, and Donnay USA. In April, 2014, Embree was named to be on the Board of Directors of the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI and served as the Membership Committee Chair from 2016- 2018 while also serving on the Revenue and Development Committee for the ITHF. He was recently