Christie Borne is a USPTA certified wheelchair and able-bodied teaching professional who has been creating quality grass-roots family tennis programs since 1996.  She has thirty-five years of broad-based tennis experience encompassing competitive tennis tournament play, seminar speaking, private/public school system instruction focusing on professionalism, teamwork, character, and sportsmanship with quality programming for adults and children.

She has been published in multiple issues of ADDvantage Magazine, and was runner-up for a National Tennis Industry Award.   Christie created Call T' Court Tennis which takes tennis into neighborhood cul-de-sacs, and co-authored The Opportunity to Go to the Next Level, an after-school USTA tennis manual for coaches.

Although Christie doesn't like pickles, especially the sweet ones, she has changed her sport to the "real" dill - pickleball!  While jogging the track above the three empty gymnasiums at the Cypress Creek Family YMCA in Houston, Texas, she envisioned utilizing the space with this new game she knew very little about.  After speaking with Jim Bauser, ambassador from Houston, and Bob Halpin from Arizona, she caught the craze for pickleball.  Her knowledge and skills in tennis have given her the tools to implement beginning-to-advanced pickleball lessons.

After all these years, her vision still remains - developing each player's skills to their highest potential, motivating and challenging players through quality match play and lessons, and initiating and establishing new pickleball facilities around the city.

Great to have you on board, Christie!

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