Tammy Anderson
USPTA Certified Teaching Professional, Community Programs Staff
Callee Anderson
Tennis Programs Manager, USPTA Certified Teaching Professional
callee.anderson@innercitytennis.org
Callee Anderson
Tennis Programs Manager, USPTA Certified Teaching Professional
Callee has a long history with InnerCity Tennis serving as a certified tennis pro since 2011. She has extensive experience coaching at all game levels, including Women’s Daytime League teams, adult drills, and every level of the junior pathway. As a player, she is active in USTA league competitions and plays in several tournaments throughout the year. She formally worked at Longview Tennis Club in Duluth and three Park and Rec programs. She played #1 singles, served at Hibbing High School, and played division 1 at UW-Green Bay while finishing her career as St. Scholastica College captain.
Shelby Anderson
Tennis Professional
shelby.anderson@innercitytennis.org
Shelby Anderson
Tennis Professional
Shelby provides leadership for youth pursuing competitive tennis in Cities Academy performance pathway lessons. Shelby loves connecting with youth and helping them progress in their game. She has a lot of experience with the game of tennis and also serves as an assistant coach with the University of St. Thomas Women’s Tennis team.
Roger Boyer
USPTA & PTR Certified Teaching Professional
Kyle Buchmeier
Tennis Professional
kyle.buchmeier@innercitytennis.org
Kyle Buchmeier
Tennis Professional
Kyle has worked at ICT since 2011. He has helped coordinate ICT’s Women’s Daytime League and coaches many adult and junior programs. He formerly served as Head Coach at Woodbury and Winona Cotter High Schools and captained the Winona State Men’s Tennis Team for three years.
John Bussey
Associate Director
john.bussey@innercitytennis.org
John Bussey
Associate Director
John joined InnerCity Tennis as the Director of Development in 2022 and brought to the role significant and varied experience in nonprofit management. He was previously an instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School and the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, ran YMCA Camp St. Croix’s resident camp, oversaw major events, including the 2020 Cross Country Ski World Cup Finals effort, for the Loppet Foundation, and led marketing and fundraising for Life Time Foundation.
His B.S. was earned in Political Science from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, and his M.S. in Natural Resource Management from the University of Minnesota. He loves and competes in both CrossFit and Ultimate and describes tennis as “the vehicle through which I hang out with some of my oldest friends.”
He lives in Minneapolis near the Mississippi River with his wife and son.
Carol Coutinho
Community Programs Staff
Christopher Davis
Customer Experience Team Member
Conner Donley
Customer Experience Team Member
Nick Dunivant
PTR Certified Tennis Professional, Performance Pathways Programs Head Coach
nick.dunivant@innercitytennis.org
Nick Dunivant
PTR Certified Tennis Professional, Performance Pathways Programs Head Coach
Nick began coaching at ICT in August of 2019. Nick lived and played tennis in Hong Kong for 11 years before moving to Minnesota at the start his freshman year in high school. He has appeared in three USTA team tennis sectional finals throughout his junior playing career. He also played 4 years of varsity tennis at Benilde-St. Margarets. Nick is currently working towards a Bachelors Degree in Sports Management. Nick looks forward to using his knowledge of the game to improve the skills of the ICT junior players, as well as share his love of tennis with them.
Alex Exsted
Tennis Professional
Alex Exsted
Tennis Professional
Alex Exsted is a certified USPTA tennis professional with over 10 years of tennis playing experience. He started playing tennis around the age of 9 at InnerCity Tennis’ Super Saturday program. At age 14, Alex won the national NJTL Arthur Ashe Essay award. He has been ranked as high as #2 in the Northern section and top 150 Nationally for the 18 and under USTA boys division. Alex played Division I tennis at the University of Northern Colorado. Alex has two siblings, Isabelle and Max, who play tennis as well.
Danielle Ganje
Communications Manager
danielle.ganje@innercitytennis.org
Danielle Ganje
Communications Manager
Danielle has over 10 years of youth development program management experience. She comes to us from the University of Minnesota’s 4-H program where she was a leader in communications, social media and design initiatives. Danielle has solid understanding of youth development which gives great insight into ICT’s mission. With her background in non-profit program coordination, she has a lot of small-organization figure-it-out communications management experience with promotion, marketing, social media management, print and digital content creation, and more! Creative & pragmatic, she takes a thoughtful approach to her work. With strengths in ideation and adaptability, Danielle looks forward to serving ICT and delivering high quality comprehensive communications to those ICT touches. Danielle received her bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse in Recreation Management. When time allows, she enjoys being crafty and time outdoors with her husband and three children.
Taylor Hanson
Tennis Professional
Vincent Head
Community Programs Staff
Neil Hill
Tennis Professional
Aislinn Hogoboom
Community Programs Staff
Corey Jones
Community Programs Staff
Spencer Jones
Tennis Professional, Elite USPTA Certified Teaching Professional
spencer.jones@innercitytennis.org
Spencer Jones
Tennis Professional, Elite USPTA Certified Teaching Professional
Spencer Jones is a member of our High Performance coaching staff. Jones brings enthusiasm, leadership and extensive experience to add to ICT’s already strong team of coaches. Jones’ professional coaching experience began at InnerCity Tennis, where he served as a tennis instructor for 5 years from 2006-2011. He served as High Performance Coordinator at Lifetime Bloomington-South for 8 years and as Head Coach of Lakeville South High School boys team for 3 years. His coaching experience also includes leading 17 USTA Junior Team Tennis teams to win their Sectional Championship titles and coaching 1 JTT team to win the 2018 18U Intermediate National Championships.
Jones’ experience also includes serving as Tournament Director of the Bill Van Lieshout Tennis Classic in Oshkosh, WI, which has raised over $100,000 for public tennis courts in Oshkosh since 2011. A top singles and doubles player for the Hamline Pipers in the 1990s, Jones will continue to serve as Hamline University’s head coach of men’s and women’s tennis.
Jones, a native of Oshkosh, Wis., played number one singles for Hamline University and captained the team for three seasons before graduating Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Political Science in 1997. He later earned his MA and PhD in Government/Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jones has remained an active adult player, claiming multiple USTA sectional titles in 4.5 adult play, including several national championship appearances.
Dylan Kelly
Tennis Professional, USPTA Certified Teaching Professional
dylan.kelly@innercitytennis.org
Dylan Kelly
Tennis Professional, USPTA Certified Teaching Professional
Dylan Kelly became a full time employee at InnerCity Tennis in 2015, working part time at the tennis desk and part time as a coach in the Cities Academy program. He started at ICT as a junior coach in the Summer Tennis in the Parks program in 2008 and was promoted to a coordinator position in the summer 2013. Dylan has had an extensive background in tournament play and played four years Division 3 tennis at the College of St. Scholastica. He has coached Southwest Activities Council (SWAC) Minneapolis park and recreation tennis program for seven years and two years at Benilde St. Margaret’s High School as the girls JV coach. He’s a USPTA certified professional and enjoys working with individuals of all abilities.
Elanna Kohner
Customer Experience Team Member
Eli Krause
Customer Experience Team Member
Matthew Ogembo
Community Programs Staff
Isaac Olevson
Customer Experience Team Member
Chris Parker
Customer Experience Team Lead & Tournament Director
chris.parker@innercitytennis.org
Chris Parker
Customer Experience Team Lead & Tournament Director
Chris learned to play tennis as an adolescent in his hometown of Louisville, KY and played all four years of high school. After playing on and off for several years, Chris now competes in a men’s league at ICT, and a rec. league in Minneapolis.
Dilcia Pederson Stromberg
Culture & Human Resources Manager, Elite USPTA Certified Teaching Professional
dilcia.stromberg@innercitytennis.org
Dilcia Pederson Stromberg
Culture & Human Resources Manager, Elite USPTA Certified Teaching Professional
In addition to conducting youth programs each day, Dilcia coordinates scheduling with all of ICT’s Community Outreach programs, registration of our Super Saturday program and the hiring of our Summer Tennis in the Parks instructors each year.
Dilcia, a Minneapolis South High School graduate, began playing tennis in ICT’s Summer Tennis in the Parks Program in the 1990s. “Dil” is now an Elite USPTA pro (ten years plus) and regional tester for aspiring pros. In the fall of 2014, Dil coached the Washburn High School JV Girls team.
Scott Pennington
Tennis Professional, USPTA Certified Elite Teaching Professional
David Petersen
Tennis Professional, PTR Certified Teaching Professional
david.petersen@innercitytennis.org
David Petersen
Tennis Professional, PTR Certified Teaching Professional
David began teaching at ICT through its Super Saturday and Summer in the Parks programs. Combining his love of teaching kids and his enthusiasm for the game, he is excited to give back to the same community where he learned to play tennis. He also played 5 years of varsity tennis for Minneapolis Washburn and coached the Minneapolis South junior varsity team from 2006-2012.
Natalie Randall
Customer Experience Team Member
Chloe Reyes
Customer Experience Team Member
Tyler Rousslang
Customer Experience Team Member
Funsho Salako
Customer Experience Team Member
Raheem Simmons
Community Programs Manager
simmons@innercitytennis.org
Raheem Simmons
Community Programs Manager
Over the past 20 years Raheem has worked with Columbia Heights, Robbinsdale, and Bloomington Public Schools in roles that blend student support, cultural competence development, and sports, with the Blaisdell YMCA as their sports director, and most recently with Liberty Packaging in their human resource department with a focus on training and culture. He has deep lived experience in the communities that ICT works with, has coached basketball for over a decade ranging from 2nd grade AAU to Varsity level at Robbinsdale Cooper. His experience goes well beyond his professional roles in developing initiatives to support kids and families.
More important than any of the above is Raheem’s passion about the impact he wants to have on the world.
He enjoys time with his family and his pitbull pup Melo.
Beth Stark
Customer Experience Team Member
Bill Stark
Tennis Professional, USPTA Certified Elite Teaching Professional
bill.stark@innercitytennis.org
Bill Stark
Tennis Professional, USPTA Certified Elite Teaching Professional
“I am grateful for all that tennis has given me”.
Bill is a former University of Minnesota Gopher tennis player and has taught tennis for many years. He loves to play the game and his favorite tennis experience was winning the USTA Northern Section father-son championship with his father and a generation later with his son.
Lisa Stockmo
Business and Development Manager
lisa.stockmo@innercitytennis.org
Lisa Stockmo
Business and Development Manager
Lisa joins us from College Possible where she served for the last three years, including most recently as their national Senior Director of Research, Design & Innovation. Prior to that, she spent many years with Thomson Reuters and a period with Osseo Public Schools as well as a number of other organizations in roles that combined strategy, people, product, and process management.
Additionally, Lisa is a tennis enthusiast and serves as a current Board Member of USTA Northern, has served on the USTA National Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and has recently been serving as a volunteer on ICT’s North Minneapolis Facility committee. Lisa spends much of her time here at ICT on the tennis courts as a participant in leagues, drills, lessons, and competitions, she is just about the most well-known player in the ICT community.
Surprise Taylor
Tennis Instructor, Customer Experience Team Member
Keegan Terrone
Customer Experience Team Member
Andre Wallace
Community Programs Staff
Jonah Wendt
Customer Experience Team Member
John Wheaton
Executive Director
john.wheaton@innercitytennis.org
John Wheaton
Executive Director
John Wheaton joined InnerCity Tennis in 2014 as Associate Director, serving mainly as the director of facilities and tennis programming at the tennis center. In 2015, he took over as Executive Director, overseeing all business operations and programming for ICT.
John began his professional career as an Account Executive in the Tennis Division of International Management Group (IMG), where he coached and managed pro tennis players and directed professional tennis events. While at IMG, John also served as Associate Director of the world-renowned IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, where he worked closely with its founder and ICT Board member, Nick Bollettieri.
John formerly owned and directed the Wheaton Tennis Academy, taught as a Professor of Humanities at Crown College, and worked as an independent academic consultant. He earned a BA from the University of Minnesota, where he played on the men’s varsity tennis team, and a JD from the Pepperdine University School of Law. He also served as Director of Tennis at Wayzata Country Club for years. John lives in Deephaven with his wife and four children.
Shiana Xiong
Customer Experience Team Member