Meet the Woods Tennis Center Staff

General Manager and Head Pro: Kevin Heim

Kevin Heim–WoodsTennis Center–Heim has a total of 14 years experience as a high school tennis coach, and during that time produced nine Wisconsin team state championships, one state runner-up, 12 individual state champs, and 53 first-team all-staters. As the head tennis pro at Koppa-Heim Tennis Academy in Wisconsin, he helped develop a program that began with 60 juniors and grew to more than 600 adults and juniors combined. Heim is currently the head pro and general manager at Woods Tennis Center in Lincoln, and has grown the junior program there from 46 participants in 2007 to 726 in 2008. Coach Heim has experience working with state, sectional and nationally ranked players, over 40 of them playing collegiate or professional tennis in the past several years.

Assistant Head Pro: Talor Wain

Talor began playing tennis when he was just 4 years old, and has been passionate about the game ever since. He played at a high level in the Australian junior ranks, and was lucky enough to travel around the country and overseas to play the game. At the age of 14, Talor began his career as a tennis coach working at the ‘Margaret Court Tennis Academy’ in Albury, Australia. While there he was lucky enough to work under National junior coaches giving him great opportunities and experiences to begin his career. After high school Talor moved to Wollongong where he studied Exercise Science while continuing his coaching. The degree was focused on strength and conditioning, as well as anatomy, biomechanics and physiology. He used this knowledge to create complete training programs for state and nationally ranked juniors. For the past two years Talor worked for the International Tennis Federation in Fiji at one of only three ITF regional training centers across the world. Talor was in charge of the complete program (both on and off court) of the 14 best juniors from the South Pacific. These juniors lived and trained at the centre with the aim of receiving college scholarships to US schools. While there, four of the players gained world junior rankings and had a great deal of success at international tournaments against highly ranked Australian and New Zealand players. Talor arrived in Lincoln in January 2010 and began working at Woods immediately. He is looking forward to continuing the hard work of Woods staff in bringing the sport of tennis to the city and improving the games of everyone who comes in.