Staff Information

Harold Conway, Owner/Senior Staff Professional

Harold is an owner of Frog Hollow Racquet Club and is a certified Professional by the PTR, USPTA and USPTR Wheelchair Tennis. He is also a National Tester for the PTR, chairs the High Performance committee for the Middle States section and is a graduate of USTA High Performance coaching program. Harold was the Director of Tennis at the Arthur Ashe Tennis center and Philadelphia N.J.T.L. which had over 8,000 juniors (the second largest program in the country and recognized as the best program in the country at the U.S open 2004).

Harold has coached players that attended Brown University, LaSalle University, Penn, Cabrini, Gwynedd Mercy, Lehigh University, Florida State and Florida A.M., LSU, Delaware, Bucknell, Mulinburg (D-1 D-2 and D-3 schools). Harold coached LaSalle University boys and girls teams in the A-10 Division 1, the Friends Selects boys team, the St. Huberts Girls School team. Additionally, Harold has coached players who have won the Easter Bowl and have played in National Championships such as the National indoors, National Clay Courts, National Hard courts and other national championships. Harold enjoys coaching players at all levels of the game and taking them to the next level!

Denard McLendon, Director of Tennis, Senior Staff Professional

Denard is the Director of Tennis at Frog Hollow. He is a PTR junior and adult certified instructor and has successfully completed the USTA High Performance Program in 2001. Denard served on the USTA/North Carolina Tennis Association Junior Development Committee 2002-2005, served as a USTA Zonal Coach Boys and Girls 12's and 16's and under - Southern and Middle States Sections 2000-2004.

He was a USTA Competitive Training Center Coach at Wake Forest University in 2003 and at Frog Hollow Racquet Club from 2008 - 2010. He was named North Carolina Independence School Athletics Association Coach of the Year 2003 - 2005 while coaching Forsyth Country Day School High School Boys to three straight North Carolina Independent School 3-A State High School Championships. Denard has also helped over 30 junior tennis players obtain college scholarships (both academic and tennis) to NCAA Division I Schools - Wake Forest, Furman University, Pacific University, Yale University, Princeton University and more. Denard's goal is to help players become leaders on and off court. He has designed a program to help players develop fundamentals: consistency, technical development, shot selection, mental toughness, and high level physical fitness. Denard wants both adults and juniors at Frog Hollow to receive the highest quality tennis experience.

Michael Esz, Head Pro,
Staff Professional

Michael Esz began his professional tennis teaching and coaching career in 1994. During that time, he was professionally certified as an instructor via USPTA, PTR, and USTA High Performance. In addition, Michael is USTA Sports Science Level 1 certified. Michael has served as a national travel coach for the Middle States USTA division, as well as a national travel coach for the prestigious Nike Junior Tour where he coached his student to a national title enroute to qualifying for the international phase of the competition. Most recently, Michael has developed and implemented trackmytennis.net. Track My Tennis is an on-line tennis application that assists athletes in developing their game through specific guided journaling, tournament tracking, training management, and goal setting.

Michael believes that instilling a strong work ethic balanced with enjoyment of the game will help his students excel on the court, as well as develop sound character off the court. His attention to detail emphasizes a strong biomechanical foundation of stroke production accompanied by tennis specific footwork. Michael enjoys working with all levels of junior and adult players.

Arsenio Culver, Staff Professional

Arsenio Culver is a PTR Certified Professional who graduated from Norfolk State University with a B.S. degree in Elementary Education, minoring in History. Here he earned three times all MEAC Conference, three times Team MVP, two times top 20 in the Atlantic Region in final Campbell/ ITA Regional tennis rankings. He also competed in the Fall 2011 & 2012 NCAA D-1 Singles Championship. During his four year tenure, he played #1 for three consecutive years, and in his fourth year he had win streaks of 6, 8, 10, and 11 in both singles and doubles against top NCAA opponents. Arsenio ended his collegiate career with a 70% wining percentage in singles and 71% wining percentage in doubles.

Arsenio also has years of teaching experience from working for Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis Center (Legacy) and Althea Gibson Youth Tennis with many top pros, juniors and college players in the State of PA. Arsenio enjoys working with all age groups but has a love and passion for doubles play and competition. He had the opportunity to watch and study Pete Sampras train in 2000 for 2 days, attended Dennis Van Der Meer in S.C. in 2002 as a player, and was the 2007 assistant Coach of the Benedict College Tigers in S.C

Jack McClurkin, Staff Professional
Jack@Frogtennis.com

Jack is a PTR certified professional. Jack played Division 2 tennis at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and locally played #1 singles in high school tennis at Spring-ford High School. Jack loves teaching all levels of players but specifically focuses on junior players ages 10 and under. With players ages 10 and under, Jack can help develop their game skills from an early age.

Kyle McGee, Staff Professional

Kyle is a PTR certified pro who started playing tennis under the tutelage of Harold Conway and Rondy Williams at Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis Center and is currently a teaching professional at Frog Hollow Racquet Club. Kyle graduated from Lower Merion High School and then moved on to Marywood University. Throughout the course of his collegiate career, Kyle set both singles and doubles wins records and graduated with a degree in business management.

Lupe Prince, Staff Professional

Lupe Prince is a certified PTR professional who has been involved with tennis for over 30 years. She comes from Venezuela sharing with us her unique trait of being bilingual. She is an active player, playing USTA leagues and currently coaches the Gwynedd Mercy Academy School. She graduated from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, Caracas-Venezuela  in Public Accounting.

Vince Giannone,
Staff Professional

Vince comes to Frog Hollow from Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education were he was coaching some of the area's top ranked juniors. Vince has coached juniors who are nationally ranked and have been accepted into the USTA Full Time Player Development program in Flushing Meadows. He has an extensive knowledge of 10 and under training formats. He continues to compete at a high level and plays many Men's Open USTA Sanctioned Tournaments and can be seen training at the club on a regular basis. Vince was also the Assistant Women's Tennis Coach at Swarthmore College for 2011 and 2012.

Sean Monaghan,
Staff Professional

Sean is a USPTA, USPTR Certified Pro and Etcheberry Certified for Tennis. Sean graduation from Bloomsburg University with a BS in Exercise Science with a minor in Cardiac Rehabilitation in 2002 and started teaching tennis professionally as an Assistant Pro at the West Branch Tennis Club in South Williamsport, PA in 1990. In 1992, Sean moved to Hilton Head Island, SC to work for Dennis Van der Meer. At Van der Meer, Sean enjoyed working with adults, juniors, pee-wees, taught a variety of clinics including, singles and doubles strategy and gave private lessons and organized round-robins. Sean’s tennis teaching career continued at Harry Hopman Tennis Academy at Saddlebrook Resort, Wesley Chapel, FL (where he the privilege to observe the training of former No. 1 player in the world Pete Sampras along with other greats such as Jim Courier, Jennifer Capriati, Sanchez- Vicario and Gabriela Sabatini.) and trained and travelled to tournaments with world-class juniors. Sean also worked with Pat Etcheberry and his staff to administer physical fitness training along with mental toughness. Sean has coached college teams (Susquehanna University, Bucknell University) and has become an expert in video taping analysis while at Doylestown Tennis Club. As a player, Sean was ranked in Middle States as well as achieving a National Ranking in the 40’s division. Sean brings experience to the Frog Hollow Racquet Club and is looking forward to working with their members. Sean resides in Quakertown with his wife Jill and their Golden Retriever Riley.

Corey Bowlin, Staff Professional

Originally from Salem, Oregon, Corey is a certified is USPTA Professional at the highest level 1.  Since 1997, Corey has been teaching tennis throughout the United States, from Oregon to Florida and the Caribbean.  He has had great success coaching ladies league teams, including a women’s 3.5 USTA team that placed 4th in nationals in 2010.  Additionally, Corey has taken junior players to the national levels with a USTA league Championship team in 2006.   

From 2003 until May of 2008 Corey was the Director of Tennis at Palmas del Mar Country Club, in Puerto Rico. Before arriving back to Palmas in April of 2000, Corey was the Director of Tennis at Malliouhana Hotel in Anguilla for two years.  While there Corey was in charge of all programs and had the opportunity to teach Kevin Bacon and other celebrities.  In September of 1997, Corey was at Palmas del Mar, actively involved in member events, the junior program, coaching USTA league teams and teaching the daily clinics.

Rondy Williams, Staff Professional

Rondy is a tennis teaching professional who has been in the game for over 22 years. Born and educated in the Philadelphia area, Rondy has worked with some of the best players in the game. Rondy went to Canada to be trained by Dennis Van Dee Meer and Butch Staples to become a PTR certified trainer and has been a PTR member since.

Hopeton Green, Staff professional

Hopeton Green is a PTR Certified Professional whose professional career began in the Colony Resort in Jamaica in 1985. Since then, he has held several key positions including the tennis coach at Notre Dame Academy in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and the assistant Tennis Pro at Overbrook Golf Club in Radnor, Pennsylvania. In addition to teaching, Hopeton is an enthusiastic volunteer and contributor to various U.S. and Jamaican based organizations that benefit children and other worthy causes. Hopeton has a sincere passion and love for tennis which is contagious to the players who he coaches!