Staff & Jobs

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.

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.

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 is a certified USPTA tennis professional with over 10 years of tennis-playing experience. He started playing tennis around 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 also play tennis.

Please contact Alex directly regarding 8U, 10U, and 12U advanced City Academy youth tennis classes.

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.

Grahamm was born and raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. After graduating from St. Louis Park High School his passion for tennis led him to Gustavus Adolphus, where he competed for 4 years on the tennis team. Grahamm earned a degree in Political Science; he also minored in Spanish and is fluent in Spanish. His passion for tennis propelled him to seek a job teaching the game he loves.

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.

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.

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.

“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.