A native of Santa Barbara, Lance has played on state championship teams at Santa Barbara High and Santa Barbara City College and earned All-American honors twice as a collegiate player. After college, he became head coach of Men’s Tennis at Santa Barbara City College and awarded Coach of the Year honors in 2001. Lance is returning to SBCC this year to coach the Men’s Tennis team. Over 15 years on staff here at SBPRC, Lance has been a great ambassador to the game, helping create a fun and exciting tennis environment for players of all ages and abilities, as well as making it an important place to develop and improve one's game. Lance is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, and is currently being mentored by Dr. Marcus Elliott, MD Harvard and founder of P3 Peak Performance Project (www.P3.md). Dr. Elliott is a world leader in the field of sports science (and an avid tennis player), and has been helping Lance with his understanding of high performance training and injury prevention.

Stephanie Stone has been teaching tennis for over 30 years.  Her experience includes teaching at clubs in Virginia, Arizona and California as well as in Namibia and South Africa.   Stephanie is a certified USPTA Tennis Coach who has worked at SBPRC since 2000.  Prior to that time, she worked as the Director of Tennis at the historic Miramar Hotel in Santa Barbara.  Originally from Virginia, Stephanie played division 1 college tennis at James Madison University where she won her singles conference her senior year.  Stephanie's broad knowledge and enthusiasm for the Sport promises to make your learning experience an wnjoyable one.  Her vast credentials also include the following:

• USPTA certiified for over 25 years
• Competes at national level in her age division
  
• Competed in Windhoek, Namibia and Cape Town, South Africa
• Selected by USTA to represent team USA at the ITF World Championships in Turkey in 2013
• USTA Competitive Training Center Coach for the Central Coast
• Advisory Staff for Wilson Athletics
• USTA Regional Training coach for SCTA
  

Sara Walker Scott was destined to play tennis. She was not only influenced by her brother Scott who went on to play tennis in college at the University of Texas, but also by her family. Her grandfather played Tennis at the University of Texas and her father played for the University of Houston. It was inevitable that Sara would be walking down the same path as her family. In the beginning of Sara's career as a Tennis player she dominated the high school competition. For example, during her freshman and sophomore year, she never lost a high school match. By age 18, she reached Girl's National Clay Court Finals and won the El Paso's $10,000 satellite tournament. Sara went on to play in college at UCLA. All four years as a Bruin, she was the #1 player on the team and her coach was none other than Pete Sampra's sister, Stella Sampras. She ended her freshman year at UCLA ranked number two in the nation in singles. At the peak of her double's career in college, she was ranked number two in the nation with her partner Petya Marinova in 2002.