Cheryl graduated from Tulane University and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras. She worked in international development after returning from the Peace Corps, is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and has a background in event planning and sales. Cheryl swam competitively from age 6 through college and took up tennis, with her first lesson as a beginner in 2006 at MLTC.

In her free time, Cheryl usually can be found on the tennis courts working on her game. She currently competes on DBH, NWSTL and USTA teams. Cheryl has been the Operations Manager for both The Marcus Lewis Day Camp and The Marcus Lewis Tennis Center since 2006 and lives in Acton with her husband and 3 children.

Email: cheryl@marcuslewisenterprises.com
Phone: 978 264 8349 Ext. 4

Danielle holds a BS Degree in Economics from Penn State University as well as an Accounting Certification from Northwestern University. Her work experiences focused on internal accounting for professional services companies and law firms and consulting for an accounting software start-up.

She enjoys photography, volleyball, knitting and is an avid reader. Danielle joined the sport of tennis just 5 years ago but now competes on teams in the North Shore League, DBH League, Spring League and USTA. She has been a part of the Marcus Lewis family since 2011 and lives with her husband and 3 daughters in Carlisle.

Email: danielle@marcuslewisenterprises.com
Phone: 978 264 8349 Ext. 2

Liz graduated from Connecticut College with a BA in psychology. She continued her education at Simmons Graduate School where she received her Masters in Social Work (MSW). Liz currently has an outpatient mental health practice in Acton. She works with adults in individual and couples counseling.

Liz was the co captain of the Lincoln-Sudbury High School tennis team. She currently plays on North Shore and USTA leagues. In her spare time Liz enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters. Liz also enjoys golf, quilting, stained glass and is a salt water fish tank hobbiest.

Email: liz@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Christi grew up in Chelmsford and still lives there with her husband, daughter and son. She played tennis recreationally as a child and took it back up again later as an adult. She now plays as much as possible, competing on both DBH and North Shore teams.

Christi graduated from UMass Lowell with a degree in biology and worked as a Research Technician. She was in lab in Boston focusing on an AIDS vaccine.

Besides playing tennis, Christi spends her time chauffeuring her kids to their activities.

Email: christi@marcuslewisenterprises.com
Phone: 978 264 8470

A lifelong recreational tennis player, Sally understands the value of acquiring life sports at an early age and looks forward to helping introduce young people to the game of tennis.

Sally has degrees from Colby College and Boston University and worked in the publishing industry and as a professional historical archaeologist before moving with her husband to the Acton area to raise their two now teenage children. Most recently a part-time library technician, she lives in Acton with her husband and when not playing tennis is an avid reader, skier, walker, gardener, and dog person.

Email: sally@marcuslewisenterprises.com
Phone: 978 264 8349 Ext. 3

Susan graduated from Connecticut College and moved to Boston soon after. She began her professional career working at a Boston hotel in the sales department. After a couple of years there, she decided to move to the other side of the business and become a meeting planner. She worked for nine years at an environmental consulting firm planning meetings for the EPA and other government agencies. She has used her organizational skills and attention to detail to plan fundraising events and large corporate sales meetings.

When Susan’s not on the tennis courts or working, she’s hanging out with her husband and the family dog, Nacho, now that their two kids are off in college. Talk to her any time and you’ll find that she’s organizing some social event. She enjoys traveling and has a bucket list goal of attending all four Grand Slam events in her lifetime.

Email: susan@marcuslewisenterprises.com
Phone: 978 795 4028

Marsha worked in Manhattan for 10 years as a bookkeeper. She then started a home business, Beyond Baskets, which lasted for 8 years. After meeting her husband in the Virgin Islands, she moved to Massachusetts and had two beautiful daughters.

She returned to accounting and worked in Framingham for some time before opening her own store, The Forgotten Toy. Eventually she was a distributer for Enesco and Fischer Price.

Marsha ultimately closed her store and worked as a Reception Manager at a few health/tennis clubs before coming to the MLTC.

Email: marsha@marcuslewisenterprises.com
Phone: 978 264 8349 Ext. 7

Susan graduated from Bay Path College and worked in human resources for 10 years before she and her husband settled in the town of Acton to start a family. She has been a Customer Service Manager at Donelan’s since 1999.

Her youngest son is currently serving in the Army Reserves and her older son is a recent college graduate.

In her spare time, Susan enjoys baking, reading and spending quality time with her two sons.

Email: frontdesk@marcuslewisenterprises.com
Phone: 978 264 8349 Ext. 7

George graduated from Assumption College in 2015 with a major in political science and a minor in law & economics. He has spent the last three plus years working in sales. George is in the process of obtaining his MBA and takes classes on a part-time basis.

In his free time George is an avid hiker, poker player, and most of all tennis player. George plays righty with a single-handed backhand.  He is partial to the drop shot, especially when it bounces back onto his side of the court! His favorite players are Roger Federer and Dominic Thiem. George has been a regular participant in the MLTC Flex League for the past five years and loves the flexible and friendly competition.  George looks forward to seeing you at the front desk or on the courts soon!

Pete is certified by both the USPTA and PTR having earned “Elite Professional” status. During his career of over 25 years and he has been recognized as USPTA “Pro of the Year”. His experienced coaching has led many teams to league or national championships and he has developed the games of countless juniors.

Pete has often volunteered in communities by introducing tennis to many schools and youth organizations. Through his tennis background, he has raised tens of thousands of dollars for charitable causes.

Aside from tennis, Pete is an amateur musician/guitarist performing with local North Shore bands. He enjoys outdoor activities such as cycling, hiking and kayaking while also spending lots of time with his wife and daughters.

Pete is a life-long resident of Massachusetts, a graduate of Merrimack College and currently lives in Merrimac, MA with his wife, Donna, and two daughters, Jenni and Jessi.

Email: pete@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Tara Spaulding, USPTA certified, grew up in the Boston area and been playing tennis since childhood. She has worked at other clubs in the area before joining the Marcus Lewis Tennis Center exclusively in 2011. She was the head coach of the Acton-Boxborough girls’ junior varsity tennis team from 2003-2011. An avid competitor, she still competes in various leagues in the area.

After earning a BA in Business Administration and Political Science she worked for many years in systems development until she began to raise her children full-time. An opportunity to coach one year slowly led to a career as a tennis instructor. She considers herself lucky to now be able to work in a field she loves and is very passionate about. She teaches and coaches players of all ages and levels.

When Tara is not teaching or playing tennis, she is busy raising her three children in Acton.

Emaill: tara@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Domenico Daelli was born in Italy where tennis was one of the dream sports after soccer and motor sports. From a very early age he has been participating and competing in different athletic activities from swimming, tennis, skiing to playing basketball and soccer.

He began playing tennis at the age of 10 and a few years later he started playing in tournaments. For over 30 years, Domenico competed at different levels both in individual events as well as in team tennis competitions in Italy.

Domenico began teaching tennis at the age of 15. It is a passion that he shared with his wife and two daughters, all of whom he helped to develop into accomplished players.

Domenico has made contributions as both player and coach to various clubs in Italy (Milan, Genova and Florence) until he moved to the US in 2012 following his work career.

Domenico is truly in love with tennis and loves to share that passion and knowledge to help others to improve.

Email: domenico@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Carlson grew up nearby in the town of Harvard and has been playing tennis since 2001. He played doubles on the Bromfield tennis team, winning the districts and was a state finalist. He was named to the League All-Star team two years in a row.

Carlson played on the University of Mary Washington club tennis team, and after graduating, joined the MLTC in 2013 to teach full-time.

Carlson’s teaching education began with the MLTC’s Instructor Training Course; however, after being with the MLTC for a number of years, he has continued to expand his background by becoming PTR certified and taking additional classes to stay current with the most contemporary teaching models.  

Email: carlson@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Frank Butera has worked in the tennis industry for the mid ’90s. Although he was born in the U.S., Frank grew up in Italy. He returned to the States where he attended Newton North High School before enrolling in Tyler Junior College. Frank majored in club management as well as tennis instruction where he studied directly under Steve Smith, one of the leading world authorities on stroke development. During that time, Frank also worked and studied under Craig Tiley, the current Australian Open tennis tournament director.

Frank has applied his talents as a tennis director for private clubs over the years and is currently president of Generation Tennis. 

Frank is a Boston College graduate and currently lives in Newton Mass. Biking and the outdoors are what he enjoys when off the court.

Email: frank@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Richard Ryzi is a recent college graduate whose tennis career started in high school playing on the varsity tennis team for Littleton High. Born in the Czech Republic, he moved to the States early in life and started picking up many different sports along his elementary and middle school years. However, after joining the tennis team at Littleton High, his love for the sport very quickly grew, and it became his primary sport. He then went to Gordon College and continued his tennis career by competing for the men’s tennis team, working his way up to eventually playing 3rd singles and 2nd doubles for the school Richard graduated with a mathematics degree from Gordon College. His hobbies outside of tennis are piano, soccer, and hiking.

Nammon grew up and began her interest in tennis in Northern Thailand where she maintains a vacation home. Her university degree is in marketing and she ran her own successful export business in Chiang Mai, Thailand, prior to moving to the Boston area.

She has been an assistant coach for the Acton-Boxborough girls’ tennis team and is active as a doubles player in a variety of league programs such as DBH and Working Women’s throughout the year. She particularly enjoys seeing the development of the younger kids and high school players whom she instructs, both here and in Thailand where she continues to spend her summers.

Nammon has successfully completed the MLTC’s Instructor Training Course and she is also certified through the nationally recognized Professional Tennis Registry (PTR).

Email: nammon@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Wai Ling was born in Hong Kong where both tennis and soccer were dream sports for women years ago. Besides a strong gender barrier, only those with financial means had an opportunity to play tennis because of the exorbitant club fees.

She came to the United States back in 1991 and began playing tennis the following year. She has competed since then in both the sports of tennis and soccer. Her passion for soccer brought her to the level of a referee and she now is currently the assistant coach of the Littleton Varsity girls’ tennis team.

Her passion is working with children as is demonstrated by her many volunteer activities:
Volunteering at HGRM, Acton, MA
Soccer coach of ABYS, Acton, MA
Classroom Assistant in Cottage Children’s Center, Marlborough, MA
Member of Hong Kong District Scout Council
Parent Scout Leader of Victoria Nursery and Kindergarten, Hong Kong

Wai Ling successfully completed the MLTC’s Instructor Training Course and she is also certified through the Professional Tennis Registry (PTR).

Email: wailing@marcuslewisenterprises.com

The Marcus Lewis Tennis Center is an organization that is managed and directed by teaching professional, Marcus Lewis.

Marcus was your typical baseball, basketball and football player when he reached high school, but he soon began dropping those sports when he discovered that he could play tennis.  Although he had virtually no tennis experience, by his junior year he quickly rose to play #1 singles for the team, and by the end of his senior season, he had made it to semi-finals of the state tournament.

During his second year of college at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Marcus had walked on to their Division 1 roster which had been in the top 25 of the NCAAs the year before.  Ultimately deciding to leave school to pursue his dream of playing professionally, he spent the next few years training back near his home in Massachusetts before traveling through Europe and Northern Africa to play on the circuit during the mid-90’s.

Upon returning home, a few years later Marcus started the Marcus Lewis Tennis Center in 1997.  The program began as a small seasonal tennis operation in a condo complex in Acton.  It has since grown into the largest and most comprehensive tennis program in the area.   

The Marcus Lewis Tennis Center has inspired other enterprises that can be seen at marcuslewisenterprises.com.

Although Marcus still enjoys playing for fun, he feels the most enjoyment from watching others succeed and giving everyone an opportunity to enjoy the great life-long sport of tennis, hence the tagline “Tennis For EVERYONE”.  For more background on Marcus or Marcus Lewis programs, you can click here.

Email: marcus@marcuslewisenterprises.com 

Holly graduated from Assumption College and has a degree is Elementary Education and Social Rehabilitation. Holly’s interest in working with children and program planning began during the summer months in both high school and college where she developed and directed a summer camp for the Chelmsford Recreation Department.

After graduation, the Town of Chelmsford offered Holly a position as the Director of Recreation. Since that time, Holly has enjoyed 25+ years in the Recreation field working for both the Town of Chelmsford and the Town of Carlisle.

Holly is a life-long resident of Chelmsford and enjoys spending time with family and friends as well as weekend trips and vacations to the Cape.

Email: Holly@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Natalie first had exposure to teaching tennis at a summer tennis camp during her college years. While in college, she also played squash which she says has helped her tennis game. Natalie has played the sport her whole life and has competed in women’s tennis leagues, including DBH and USTA. She is passionate about tennis, thinks it’s fun and healthy and wishes for her students to enjoy it and to exercise. In 2015, she then completed the MLTC Instructor Training Course and began teaching consistently.

Besides teaching tennis, she works at an elementary school in Newton. Natalie’s pastimes include painting with acrylics, yoga, and skiing.

Email: natalie@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Jackie first completed the MLTC instructor training course in 2007 and taught briefly for MLTC before having to return to full-time work as an engineer. Since that time, she continued to play tennis including playing competitively on several USTA and CMITA teams. In 2018, after 32 years in the business, she decided to leave her engineering career, and after taking a refresher MLTC instructor training class is thrilled to be back on court teaching.

Jackie grew up playing tennis in Pennsylvania and played on her high school tennis team. After getting a degree in Electrical Engineering from Penn State, she moved to Maryland where she played for many years on USTA teams and was a USTA League coordinator. After moving to New England, she continued to seek out and participate in various tennis programs.

In addition to teaching tennis, Jackie also teaches high school math and is currently the Math Lab Instructor at Watertown High School. She resides in Chelmsford with her husband and two sons.

Email: jackie@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Cindy has been playing and following tennis most of her life, starting with her participation in the National Junior Tennis League (NJTL) program in Stamford, Connecticut.

Cindy played tennis for her varsity high school team in Connecticut, and for the Mount Holyoke College Division 3 varsity tennis team. Cindy was also a member of the Connecticut state championship volleyball team in high school and played varsity volleyball in college.

After moving to Massachusetts, Cindy continued to play tennis recreationally and coached varsity volleyball for several years at Wheaton College. She was also a certified coach for the Acton Boxborough youth soccer league for many years, when her children were younger.

In addition to an undergraduate degree in International Relations, Cindy has an MBA from Babson College. Her professional career includes over 30 years as an environmental consultant, permitting real estate development and energy infrastructure projects throughout the United States. In addition to her love of tennis, she enjoys cycling and travelling, and volunteers on several committees in the town of Boxborough where she resides.

Cindy plays competitive tennis year-round including participation in CMITA, DBH, Northshore and USTA leagues, and serves as a team captain for CMITA and USTA teams. She completed the MLTC’s Instructor Training Course and enjoys providing knowledgeable guidance to players of all ages and backgrounds.

Email: cindy@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Joanne Crawley, an Acton resident, has been passionately involved in the New England tennis community for the last 16 years. She has participated in many USTA & CMITA leagues and continues to compete on woman’s and mixed doubles teams.

She has an extensive administrative and customer service background in the corporate world and tennis has provided her a nice balance with her professional career.

She also held the position as Director of Tennis for the Bedford Bluffs, a private swim and tennis club in Bedford NH. There she hired the staff, oversaw the maintenance of the courts, organized the adult and junior programs and ran the tournaments.

Email: joanne@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Michelle Mafera resides in Shirley, Massachusetts with her little dog Buddha and spends her spare time enjoying the outdoor environment and making crafts with her friends. Michelle has always found enjoyment in making music and has played guitar for ten years.

Before joining the MLTC team she was a bartender and server for the past 5 years, and is excited to see what the future holds for her!

Olga grew up in Russia, and graduated Moscow Math College with a computer science degree. While living in Moscow she worked in a commercial company doing office management, processing graphic data, and representing the company in international exhibitions. After moving to the United States in 1998, Olga volunteered at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and at various art events. Currently she teaches reading and writing in Russian for kids.

Olga lives in Stow with her husband, Aleksey, and two sons, Daniel and Philip. She loves life, people and tennis! In her spare time, besides taking tennis lessons and playing matches, she enjoys biking, kayaking, listening music, reading poetry, traveling, and going to performing arts events. She believes life is too short not to be happy.

Michael is from the Boston area and has been playing tennis since a young age. He grew up playing tennis at the Longfellow Clubs in Wayland and Natick and went on to play for four years at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Michael has also competed in USTA tournaments at the junior and men’s open levels.

Michael began teaching tennis at age 15 and enjoys sharing his love for the game and helping players develop. He has coached players in a range of ages and skill levels, teaching everything from fundamentals to advanced match strategy.

Aside from teaching tennis, Michael lives in Boston and is a recent graduate of Boston College’s MBA program. Michael’s hobbies include running and supporting the New England Revolution MLS soccer team.

Email: michael.glen@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Rachael has lived in Massachusetts for four years with her boyfriend after growing up in Southern California. She graduated from Fitchburg State University with a Communications Media with a concentration in Theatre degree. So when she isn’t at the front desk, she is on the stage, in front of a camera, or on the lookout for her next gig.

Before MLTC, she took multiple nannying jobs and was a full time student.

While she doesn’t play tennis herself, her parents are huge tennis fans so she feels right at home!

Email: frontdesk@marcuslewisenterprises.com
Phone: (978) 264-8349 ext. 7

A native of Marlborough MA, Pete graduated in 2015 with a degree in education from Western New England University where he was a singles and doubles starter for four years; earning all commonwealth cost conference honors as well as the 2015 Determination award. After graduating, Pete continued to coach in central mass. Pete went on to serve as the assistant coach for the Marlborough High school boys tennis team leading the team to a central mass title and state final appearance in 2018.

Today Pete still enjoys grinding it out on the courts, and can be found playing in various different leagues. Off the court Pete enjoys playing guitar in his band and spending time with friends and family.

Email: pete.lefrancois@marcuslewistenniscenter.com

Deepa graduated from Tufts University and, after a brief stint in New York City, moved back to Somerville where she worked as a development editor at Pearson Publishing, created the role of Managing Editor at a local publishing company, and is now a freelance ghost writer, writing everything from memoirs to self-help books behind the curtain. She recently moved to Carlisle with her husband and two sons.

She enjoys watching her elder son play tennis, loves indoor cycling, and is always on the lookout for a good romance novel. When she isn’t driving her kids around, Deepa is helping raise funds for local schools and charities.

Peter’s first tennis memory is sitting with his grandmother in front of her tiny black and white TV watching Eddie Dibbs and Harold Solomon play with Bud Collins and Donald Dell commentating on PBS TV. His grandmother had been a very good player in her youth in Germany, and told him stories about replacing gut strings one row at a time in the 1920’s. After that he was hooked and came of age with names like Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg, Chris Evert, Billie Jean King and John McEnroe.

His father also played and Peter used the old equipment to teach himself by hitting balls against the wall. He asked his father how many times Borg could hit the wall without missing. His father replied by saying 500 strokes! Peter never got close, but he did get very good at climbing the fence to retrieve the balls from the roof above his favorite wall.

Among his top tennis highlights are attending Wimbledon three times and the US Open many times. Attending the Australian Open is on the bucket list.

The best moment of his tennis career came when Bud Collins called him on the home phone in response to a letter that he had sent him. Bud was extremely gracious and helpful in helping Peter to secure a position at the US Open in 1998 in the communications department as a paid staffer. RIP Bud, and thanks!

Most recently he has served as the manager of a local tennis club, loves to follow pro tennis, play as often as he can and participate in several competitive tennis leagues.

When not playing or watching tennis, he is taking care of his twin boys. They are currently in high school and sadly do not share his passion for tennis (although they do play soccer, baseball, and basketball however!).

Email: peter.burhoe@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Originally from Chicago, Elaine graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in biology and a Ph.D. in biological engineering/toxicology. After a dozen years of pharmaceutical research in the Boston area, she became interested in crowdsourcing and continues to work as a Challenge Design Consultant in the field of open innovation. Elaine plays on and is the captain of CMITA, DBH, and USTA teams. In her free time, she enjoys ice hockey, reading, traveling, and watching live tennis (most recently, the Laver Cup). Email: elaine.chin@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Al grew up in Madison Wisconsin and later graduated from the Honors Program at the University of Wisconsin where he obtained degrees in psychology and sociology. After graduating and moving to Mass he worked for 18 years as a Mental Health Counselor and 10 years as a Financial Advisor, all the while teaching tennis part time.
He founded the very successful Jamaica Plain tennis program back in the late 1990s which grew to be the largest outdoor full-time summer tennis camp for kids in Boston. It doubled in size 3 years in a row.
Al has been a USPTA Certified Elite Teaching Pro for 25 yrs and was formerly ranked in the top 30 of the USTA’s Men’s Open Singles division. He has coached all levels of women’s teams in DBH, CMITA, and USTA leagues with numerous teams winning the league and even national championships.
When he’s not on court Al is an avid Patriots and Green Bay Packers fan. He also enjoys going to movies and eating out and spending time with friends.

Email: al.punke@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Kotchawan Iang-im was born and raised in Thailand. She began playing tennis at age 7 and grew up playing with her aunt. She competed at the U14, U16, U18 levels, and then moved into playing for her city and the college team in Thailand (Chonburi).

Kotchawan eventually stopped playing at the competitive level because of school and because of her passion to teach the game instead. Tennis is the reason for her majoring in exercise science and she hopes to apply it to tennis after graduate school.

After receiving her undergraduate degree, Kotchawan coached in Thailand for a couple of years and then moved to Florida in 2018 for another degree in Exercise Science at the University of South Florida.

She is extremely passionate about teaching tennis with all ages and levels and wants to share that passion with everyone she is on the court with.

Email: kotchawan@marcuslewisenterprises.com

He started playing tennis seriously at age 30 and took a few lessons at the Weston Racquet club in Waltham. Peter grew to love the game of tennis and has played at several clubs recreationally, on several teams and in many tournaments. He decided to change careers in 2021 to teach people the wonderful sport of tennis. He feels that tennis and the business world are similar in that in both endeavors you need to focus on “continual improvement”. The basics are the same….attitude, behavior, and technique.

Peter has two wonderful sons and enjoys the great outdoors.

Email: peter.bannon@marcuslewisenterprises.com

Kathleen is a Mom of two with a Master of Public Health in Population Sciences/Health Education. She has worked in various roles within health communications and is a passionate functional medicine coach. Some of her interests include cycling, yoga, tennis, cooking with friends, and exploring new cultures. She volunteers locally at school, church, and at The Village Art Room.

Email: marketing@marcuslewisenterprises.com