 Nick Bollettieri
President and Founder
Bollettieri Tennis Academy and Bollettieri Campus
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In 1978, Nick Bollettieri founded the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, a
full-time tennis boarding school dedicated to preparing students for college
within an environment that combined intense tennis training with a specially
designed academic curriculum. In addition it offered short term and holiday/summer camp sessions
which made the “Academy” environment available to students of all
ages and abilities. By combining specialized performance (fitness) training
and sports psychology programming with the technical training on court the Bollettieri
team built athletes who thrived in the competitive arena. Over the next
two decades, the NBTA became world famous as players like Agassi, Courier, Seles,
Becker, Hingis, Kournikova, Haas, The Williams sisters, and countless more trained
with Bollettieri at the NBTA.
In 1987, Bollettieri co-founded with Arthur Ashe the Ashe-Bollettieri ‘Cities’ Tennis
program that provided tennis lessons, academic tutoring, health education and
collegiate financial aid to 15,000 inner city youngsters across the United States. In
1999, he was named the United States Olympic Committee National Coach of the
Year for Tennis, received the International Tennis Hall of Fame Tennis Education
Merit Award and was listed as one of the 25 people who have influenced tennis
in the past century in The Sporting Life magazine. In 2000, Tennis Magazine
listed him as #16 out of the 50 most influential people in Tennis.
Through his International clinic services and corporate events, Bollettieri
has experience with corporate clients such as Credit Suisse First Boston, Merrill
Lynch, Fidelity, AIG, MFA and FILA. In addition, Bollettieri is Founder
of the Fun for Kids Foundation, past Board Member of the Panda Foundation, Inc.
and Member USTA Advisory Committee USA Tennis Coaching Education Program.
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