Vince Pulupa
Owner and Senior National Coach
A Washington, DC native, Vince has been coaching junior players in the Mid-Atlantic region for more than 20 years. He has coached 8 different Gold Ball winners, 12 players in the Top 10 nationally, and also worked with 5 NCAA Champions. For 20 straight years, Vince has also coached the top-ranked junior girl in G16s and/or G18s in the Mid-Atlantic.
Vince's coaching career took off when he coached Drew Courtney as a junior player from 14s-18s through to his college career at #1-ranked University of Virginia where Courtney was a 3-time All-American. Courtney won the 2010 NCAA Doubles Championship and went on to compete in the 2010 US Open and 2010 & 2012 Citi Open.
Current players Vince coaches:
- Calla McGill, USTA #4 nationally, 2024 Easter Bowl Bronze Ball, 2023 Orange Bowl Semifinalist
- Sylvana Jalbert, USTA #4 nationally, 2024 National Indoors Silver Ball
- Boning Wang, USTA #15 nationally
- Nola Jones, USTA #90 nationally, 2023 Orange Bowl semifinalist
- Jina Cha, USTA #91 nationally, Naval Academy
- Louis Anderson III, USTA #39 (2024)
- Georgia Kulevich, USTA #20 nationally, 2024 Easter Bowl Bronze Ball, 2023 Hardcourts Bronze Ball, 2023 Winter Nationals Bronze Ball, 2022 Claycourts Silver Ball
In recent years, Vince coached Princeton starter Zoé Howard (G18s USTA #2 in the country in 2019), Virginia Tech starter and NCAA #9-ranked Jordan Chrysostom (B18s USTA #20 in singles and #1-ranked doubles player in 2019), Clemson University starter Trey Stinchcomb (B18s USTA #19 in singles and #1-ranked doubles player), Spencer Liang (2017 NCAA Champion at University of Florida), the academy's most decorated girl player, Peggy Porter (2013 US Open and 2017 NCAA Champion at University of Florida), and Caroline Lampl (2016, 2018 and 2019 NCAA Champion at Stanford University) in the junior ranks.
USTA Top 10 Nationally-Ranked Junior Players:
- Brendan Lynch
- Drew Courtney
- Arnav Dhingra
- Kyryl Tsygura
- Jordan Chrysostom*
- Trey Stinchcomb*
- Spencer Liang*
- Peggy Porter*
- Caroline Lampl
- Zoé Howard*
- Sylvana Jalbert
- Calla McGill
- *Reached #1 or #2 in the United States
Vince was added to the adidas National Coaching staff in 2013 and he's also been a Babolat National Coach since 2006.
Vince graduated from High Point University (North Carolina) in 1999 where he was a 3-time All-Conference selection and won Rookie of the Year honors in 1996. Vince and his wife, Rebecca, live in Rockville, Maryland, with their son Dylan.
