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KINGSMILL WELCOMES
NEW DIRECTOR OF

RACKET SPORTS

We are pleased to announce Daniel McCain has
joined the Kingsmill team as the new Director of
Racket Sports. McCain comes to us with over 20
years of coaching experience in the tennis industry.
He is the author of How the Tennis Gods Move and
Functional Training for Tennis.

A Graduate of the ITF Junior Tennis School, McCain
is an ATP TOUR Certified Coach through the GPTCA,
a USTA High Performance Certified Coach, an
USPTA Elite Professional and a PTR Tester and
Clinician. He is also certified in technique through
Vic Braden’s Tennis College.

McCain was a USTA Manager of Player
Development and NCAA Division 1 College Coach
for seven years, McCain was the Director of Tennis at
The Higueras-Gorin Tennis Academy and served as
a USTA National Team Coach in 2015 and 2019, and
as a coach for Team USA in 2015 and 2016. McCain
served as the Director of Tennis at the Cavalier Golf
& Yacht Club in Virginia Beach for over eight years
and most recently was the Lead Tennis Professional
at Hollow Rock Racquet & Swim Club in Durham,
North Carolina.

As a player, McCain achieved a junior ITF world
ranking and won both gold and silver balls, winning
the USTA National Indoor championship and
reaching the finals of the USTA National Clay Courts.
He played for the University of Michigan tennis
team on scholarship where he finished his
undergraduate degree with concentrations in
Journalism and Psychology.

He later graduated from Illinois State University with
post-graduate studies in graphic design. He also
studied at the American Board of Sport Psychology
in a masters’ level program focusing on

performance psychology and critical moments in
competition.