Staff Information

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Pro Staff

Our staff has more than 250 years combined competitive playing and teaching experience.  Our Pros are PTR/USPTA certified instructors and the majority of our staff is trained to coach special populations.  All of our staff enjoys working with children, and are dedicated to helping tennis players reach their full potential. Our world-class exposure and experience enhance the quality of each players’ understanding of the game of tennis. (To read the Pro's Bios, click on their name below.)

Administrative Staff

Arlene Brown, Front Desk Staff
Alex Cohen, Pro Shop
Ken McMullen, Front Desk Staff & Maintenance
Brian Roper, Front Desk Staff
Anita Todd, Front Desk Staff
Chris Silverio, Front Desk Staff
Taylor Silverio, Front Desk Staff

Mike Zevitas, Front Desk Staff & Maintenance

Pro Bios

Harold Conway
Harold is the owner and former Director of Tennis at Frog Hollow Racquet Club in Lansdale PA.  With many years of tennis expertise in coaching and playing, Harold has an extenisive background in coaching including:  Director of Tennis at Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis Center in Philadelphia, USTA Area Training Center Head coach, PAD Gold Cup coach, USTA Boys’ & Girls’ Zonal coach for 12’s, 14’s, and 16’s, USTA Schools Program clinician, Philadelphia NJTL coach, Head coach at LaSalle University for Men’s and Women’s program, Varsity Tennis coach at Friends Select School, and St. Hubert’s Catholic High School for Girls in Philadelphia, World Team Tennis Junior National Head Coach for the Middle States section.

Harold Conway is a certified Professional by the PTR, USPTA and USPTR Wheelchair Tennis.  He is also a National Tester for the PTR.  Harold chairs the High Performance committee for the Middle States section and is a graduate of USA High Performance coaching program. Harold sat on the PTR Board middle state section, World Association of Tennis Teachers and Coaches, Philadelphia NJTL Board, and the USTA Minority Participation Committee.  He was also the recipient of the PTR Humanitarian of the Year Award for 1996 and the Philadelphia Area District Special Pro Award for 1996. Harold is a member of Team Head and Team Adidas.  His new position as owner of Frog Hollow Racquet club allows him the opportunity to bring his experiences together and manage an excellent, full service tennis facility!

Andrew Benner
Andrew Benner, a Pennsylvania native, is a USPTR Certified Coach and is certified in wheelchair tennis training.  Andrew has coached at Frog Hollow since 2006.  Before his coaching career started, Andrew played 3 years of varsity tennis at North Penn High School from 2000 – 2003 (played # 2 in ’03) and played #1 at Keystone College from ’03 to ’05.

Libby Chapman
Libby Chapman is a tennis professional with more than 17 years of experience in various tennis instruction methods, coordination and management of both men and women’s leagues, and administrative duties in a tennis club for an accumulation of 20 years.

In addition, Libby has played competitive tennis for 30 years,  playing tournaments, Buxmont, Interclub, and USTA matches.  She has participated in many Sectionals, Regionals, and reached the Nationals at the 4.5 level, in 2001, in beautiful Palm Springs, Ca.

Libby also has a Professional Tennis Registry certification and have been a member of the PTR since 1994.  She has attended many PTR workshops and conferences over the years and completed the Tennis University course with Dennis Van der Meer.   She is also qualified in the USTA/Middle States Tournament Management System (TMS) and recently acquire a certification in wheel chair tennis and is qualified to work with amputees and orthotic wearers.

Chuck Scarlato
Chuck Scarlato, certified PTR instructor, received­­ his Bachelor’s degree in Therapeutic Recreation from Temple University.  He currently works as a Community Relations Liaison for Friends’ Hospital Behavioral Health System.  Chuck is the Co-Director of “A Touch of Tennis” summer clinics for populations with special needs.  He also teaches at a Frog Hollow partner camp, Variety Club Camp & Development Center for children with disabilities.  In addition to his commitment to teaching at Frog Hollow, Chuck also teaches the Hatboro Horsham Evening Tennis program.  

Kevin Schmidt
Kevin Schmidt, originally from Ocean City, N.J., is the New Tennis Director at Frog Hollow Racquet Club. He is a PTR Certified Professional.  As a junior player, he attained a high sectional ranking in the Middle States section.  At Towson University, he played singles and doubles on the men’s tennis team, while honing his physical and mental tennis skills.  After graduating from Rutgers University, with a sociology major and anthropology minor, he began his tennis-teaching career at Kinetix Racquet and Sports club.

Kevin’s joy and desire to transmit expert tennis knowledge to each student--whether beginner or advanced--is expressed in his enthusiasm and commitment to his craft.  Each student, according to Kevin, deserves to be taught sound techniques and strategies that are important to learning tennis in addition to having fun and learning life lessons.

That said, Kevin wants every student and player to enjoy and learn this wonderful sport: a sport of a lifetime.  Regardless of your experience and knowledge tennis is a way to develop a mutual communication with yourself and others simultaneously.  His goal, to the members and participants at Frog Hollow, is to offer a solid, interactive and fun tennis program. 

Denard McLendon
PTR USTA High Performance coach
Denard was the founder/director of Maximum Tennis Academy in Winston Salem, North Carolina (2001-2007). He created at high-level tennis program and developed three players that gained top 80 national USTA rankings, over 20 players ranked in the USTA Southern section, and several students have received scholarships to NCAA Division I colleges/universities: UNC-Charlotte, Furman University, Columbia University, and Pacific University. Denard also led Forsyth Country Day School to three straight North Carolina Independent School Athletic Association private high school state championships (2004, 2005, 2006). Denard was named Piedmont Area Independent School Conference Coach of the Year three years. As a player Denard had a stellar junior career competing on the national level and playing tennis legends Jim Courier and Murphy Jensen. His collegiate career was played at NCAA Division I Delaware State University. Denard's program will consist of high-level fitness training, fundamentally sound strokes, mental training, point building/consistency, and a controlled//aggressive match play style. 

Ricardo Saad
Ricardo Saad is a USTA High Performance Coach, born in Argentina where he was a Davis Cup Coach for the match Argentina vs. Uruguay in 1986. In his native country he was a top ten player in every age group as a junior. He played many Satellites, Challengers and money tournaments all over the world. He was also a national coach for Argentina between 1990 and 1996, getting to train and travel with promising juniors from this country that became stars on the ATP tour like Coria, Canas, Calleri, Puerta and Nalbandian. He also produced, from his own academy, many players between 150 and 250 in both tours. The highlights of his coaching career was a Grand Slam semifinal in doubles (coaching his brother Roberto in 1986), and making Mercedez Paz a top 30 player on WTA tour, helping her to reach the masters in doubles. He also coached  Samantha Reeves (former top 60 WTA tour) for many years, and Laura Granville (top 25 WTA tour). Ricardo was the Racquet Sports Director at Tucuman Lawn Tennis and Country Club in Tucuman, Argentina where he ran tournaments, instituted and coordinated year round programs, trips and various other competitive programs.  Under Ricardo’s guidance, his players became State, Sectional, National and Internationally ranked.  In 1997 Ricardo left Tucuman, Argentina to become the Crandon Park Tennis Center’s Head Tennis Professional.  Crandon Park was the host to multiple tournaments, including the Orange Bowl, Sunshine and Continental cups (premier Junior events in the world), as well as the Sony-Ericson Open.  In 2003, Ricardo became the owner and manager of the Ace Tennis Center in Fort Myers, Florida along side of his brother Roberto.  While at the Ace Tennis Center, Ricardo’s was the Director and Manager STEP (Saad Tennis Excellence Program).  This program was oriented to develop competitive junior tennis players with a focus on college and satellite tour placement. Ricardo still travels on tour between the months of April and June, mainly in Europe, with a group of players. While maintaining part ownership of the Ace Tennis Center, Ricardo now resides in the Philadelphia area where he is Frog Hollow Racquet Club’s Touring Pro Coach.  His experience with junior and adult players alike is a welcome addition to our team!

Michael Esz
Michael is a certified teaching professional registered with the USPTA and PTR teaching commissions.  His teaching career began in 1988 in his hometown of Boyertown, Pa. Since that time Michael has become a USTA High Performance coach, a national travel coach for the Nike USA Masters Junior Tour, as well as the USTA/Middle States Zonals travel coach for the 14’s division.  In 2004, as a coach Michael captured his first national title in Palo Alto, Ca.

As a player, Michael developed his game in the Philadelphia area and had quickly gained recognition at the national level.  Michael believes in developing a solid stroke foundation so every player will have the opportunity to become the player they envision themselves being, yet also for a non-limiting ability to evolve as an all-court player with options.  In addition, Michael emphasizes the mental aspects of the game by drawing out a more conscious aptitude for each player.  Michael is USTA sports science certified.

Yomi Adesubokan
Yomi Adesubokan began playing tennis at the age of nine and was formerly ranked in the top ten, as an adult USTA/MS Tennis player.

He is a certified PTR Tennis Instructor. Certified for Tennis Coaching at Van Der Meer Tennis University, Hilton Head, Sc. Certified Tennis Clinician. Certified USTA Sports Science, Level 1. Certified Level 3 Verifier, Middle States Section. Certified PTR High School Tennis Coach. Attended several USTA, Sports Psychology Workshops, Nutrition Workshops, High Performance Workshops, Effective use of Sports Management Skills workshops and Multicultural Tennis Clinician Training Workshops.

In 1999, Yomi was fortunate to secure a part-time employment at the Arthur Ashe Youth Center. There, he serves as a Teaching Coach with the Traveling Team, Team Tennis Competition Coach, National Junior Tennis League Coach, USTA/MS C.T.C and Gold Cup Coach. Coach High School Girls Tennis for three consecutive years.

He is presently the Head Coach of the Philadelphia area CTC program and a member of the Tennis Teaching Pros at the Frog Hallow Racquet Club.

Kareem Bryant
Kareem Bryant was born in Philadelphia and grew up playing tennis on the public courts throughout the city.  He played his first tennis tournament at the age of eight years old that sparked a flame that has not died.  Kareem had on illustrious junior career reaching the top 5 in his age group three different years.

Kareem graduated from Cardinal Dougherty High School in 1994 and received a full scholarship to Central Connecticut State University, a Division I school located in New Britain CT, where he played #1 singles, doubles and was captain his final two years, graduating in December 1999.

In 2001 Kareem returned to Philadelphia as the assistant director of junior tennis at the Arthur Ashe youth and Education Program.  After leaving AAYTEC he became the coach of the William Penn Charter, for three successful seasons, full time Professional at the Upper Dublin Sports Center, Manufactures’ Golf Club, and Middle States Zonals Coach for Boys and Girls 14’s and 16’s.

He is now a School Administrator and working part-time at the Frog Hollow Racquet Club.

Rondy Williams
Rondy Williams 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.  Rondy’s previous experience includes his work at Magarity Tennis Club as Head Tennis Professional for six years, Philadelphia Tennis Club for four years, Cedarbrook Country Club for two years and Arthur Ahse Youth Tennis center as a Staff Pro and Community Tennis Coordinator.  Rondy is now a staff pro at Frog Hollow Racquet Club where he has taught for five years.  He is happy to be back in the area where he went to school at Montgomery County Community College.  A “Tennis Doctor” of sorts, Rondy will examine your game and repair or modify your strokes as needed.  Not everyone has the attitude of a champion but Rondy can help you find it!

Frog Hollow Racquet Club is located on 11.5 acres of land in Lansdale Pennsylvania.  The club has 6 total indoor courts, 3 are Hydro-Har-Tru and the other 3 are hard courts.  We also have 5 outdoor Har-Tru courts.  We are a year-round tennis facility with something for everyone!

The Club House, originally.constructed in the early 1800’s as a barn, gives way to a rustic and friendly atmosphere.  We have a great family tennis environment

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    Kevin Schmidt, Head Tennis Professional &
      Tournament Director, Senior Staff Professional