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Vic Braden is a nationally recognized in expert in the field of sports science and tennis education. Read more about Vic.

VIC BRADEN PROFILE

• Major Personal Goal:
-- To spend more quality time with my family.

• Major Professional Goal:
-- To help each person maximize performance and enjoyment of his/her chosen sport in the shortest period of time.

• Vocational Highlights:
-- Licensed psychologist (California), author, sports educator and researcher, cinematographer, videographer, sports, television commentator.

• Education:
-- Kalamazoo College (Michigan, B.A.); Los Angeles State College, M.A.; Doctoral Studies, USC; additonal graduate studies, University of Toledo and UCLA.

• Television, Principal in Series:
-- Vic Braden's Tennis For the Future....13 shows, three years, PBS Network. Future Sport....13 shows, two years, ESPN...hosted with Dr. Gideon Ariel. Vic's Vacant Lot....26 shows, three years, ESPN...sports show for children. Vic Braden Children's Hospital Championships 1982-1998 Vic Braden's Sports Science Show.

• Book Authored (5 Sports Illustrated, Time/Warner, Little Brown Publisher):

1. Tennis for the Future

2. Teaching Children Tennis The Vic Braden Way

3. Quick Fixes

4. Mental Tennis

5. Laugh and Win At Doubles

6. Tennis 2000

• Television Appearances:
-- NBC Today Show, ABC Good Morning America, CBS Good Morning, ABC Nightline, 20/20, NBC, CBS, ABC Evening News, Hollywood Squares

• Television Commentating:
-- NBC, CBS, ESPN, PBS, and Prime Ticket Network.
• Featured in Print Media:
-- Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, People Magazine, New York Times.

• Awards:
-- Contributing Most to Tennis in America (USTA); Orange County Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award (Sportswriter); Coach of the Year Award (USPTA).