Coach Profile
Laura Isbey
021 0233 0274
Team1 Tennis Director, Senior Coach
OVERVIEW
Laura is a top 20 player in New Zealand for singles and doubles. Experienced in coaching players of all ages and abilities, Laura enjoys improving the players she coaches by focusing on both technical and tactical aspects of the game. Laura has been coaching since she was just 15 years of age, and more recently taking on coaching as a full-time role after choosing to use her passion for tennis to help others.
Laura has experienced playing in New Zealand as a junior through to adult competitions, and has represented Auckland as a junior player, to then playing tennis in the USA on a full 4 year tennis scholarship at West Virginia State University, where she played number 1 on her team.
Passionate about Tennis, Laura thrives on using knowledge and ‘skill sets’ to accomplish objectives and motivate students to achieve their full potential through intensity, discipline and desire.
“Hard work beats talent, if talent doesn’t work hard”
COACHING STYLE
- Technical, mechanics, footwork
- Motivating
- Enthusiastic, Intensive and Fun
QUALIFICATIONS/Experience
- Tennis Coach since 2011
- Experience coaching from 4 year olds to seniors (all ages)
- Previous Coach at Westend Tennis Club
- Previous Coach in USA
- Bachelors in Business Marketing & Economics
Clubs
TOURNAMENTS AND EVENTS MANAGEMENT
- Have run previous Team1 Tennis tournaments