Greg Hiers, is a USPTA Elite level certified teaching professional (the highest classification excluding “Master Pro”). He has completed the USTA High-Performance Coaching course and attained the USTA’s Level I Competency for Sport Science. Greg has attended dozens of tennis industry workshops and seminars over the years.

Spring through fall, Greg serves as Tennis Director here at St. Paul Tennis Club. During the winter months, he teaches lessons at Baseline Tennis Center and is a part-time substitute teacher in the public school system. Greg is the Girls Varsity Head Coach at St Paul Central High School. In the spring, he helps coach the Highland Park High School tennis team under his son and Head Coach, Cason. Prior to this, Greg was the Boys Head Coach at North St Paul High School for two seasons.

Greg, his wife Joele, son Cason and daughter Josie lived in Fort Myers, Florida fall through spring from 2013 until 2022. While there Greg served as seasonal Tennis Director at Breckenridge Golf & Tennis and part-time pro at Gulf Harbour Country Club. Each summer, Greg would return to SPTC. Before his move to Florida, Greg was Tennis Director at Fred Wells Tennis & Education Center.

Greg is a native Floridian, having been born in Jacksonville, then living in Tampa through junior high school and finally moving to west Boca Raton.

Prior to arriving in Minnesota in 1996, Greg was employed at the San Francisco Tennis Club. There he served as Assistant then Head Coach for Northern California’s Area Training Center, the training program for the nation’s top junior players. Greg graduated from Ferris State University in Michigan with a B.S. in Marketing degree combined with a major in “Professional Tennis Management” (PTM), a unique program that prepares its students for careers in the tennis industry. He played for Webber College in Florida for one year.  A shoulder injury cut short his collegiate play but did not deter his desire to work in the tennis industry.

During his senior year in college, Greg served as an Assistant Coach for the Div. II nationally ranked, FSU Women’s Team. He spent his summers during college working as the Head Assistant Pro at clubs in Boca Raton, Florida (for one full year prior to college); Greenwich, Connecticut; Louisville, Kentucky; and Honolulu, Hawaii.