James Anthony Harrell
Director, Junior Development

Qualifications
  Certified USPTR Instructor
  Seventeen years of Instruction
  Group and Private Instruction
  Summer Camp Instruction
  Boys Club of America Instruction

Accomplishments
  Lead twenty-six ALTA teams to the City Championships
  Won Sixteen USTA team Championships

Experience
  ADMINISTRATIVE PARTNER, FIRST SERVE INC., Atlanta , GA. (2003 – present)
    Participated in overseeing operating budget
    Instructed coaching and administrative staff in their daily duties
    Director of Junior Development
    Director of First Serve Academy ’s year long program
    Instructed Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced students
    Conducted USTA tournaments

Marcus L. Vickers, Esq.,
Chief Financial Officer

As an Atlanta native, Marcus Vickers ranked among the nations most talented junior tennis players. While attending Banneker High School in College Park, Vickers lost only five singles matches for the Trojans. He was selected the first seed in his region’s post-season finals during his final two seasons of high school competition (‘89, ’90).

Riding a successful high school and junior tennis career, Vickers enrolled at Florida A&M University (FAMU) with a full tuition tennis scholarship. Upon receiving his bachelor’s degree in criminology from FAMU, he also helped champion four Division-I collegiate tennis titles along the way. Adding to his accolades as a competitor, Vickers was named the youngest Assistant Director of tennis operations by the city of Tallahassee, and during the same period, coached FAMU’s men’s team to its fifth straight conference title. In recognition of his service to the college tennis community, FAMU has honored Vickers twice with nominations for the Rolex Achievement Award.

After graduating from FAMU, Vickers was accepted into the Pepperdine School of Law and the Pepperdine Graduate School of Business where he earned both a Juris Doctorate (Law) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA). As a law student, Vickers was elected President of the Student Bar Association (SBA) and became the first African-American student to hold such a prestigious office. Under Vickers the SBA pioneered the law school’s first childcare listing program and brought a Street Law program, a practical law course taught to high school students by law students working with social science teachers, to its final stages.

Vickers was given a Dean’s Award and a Silver Key award as recognition nationally for his outstanding work as a law student from the American Bar Association’s Law Student Division (Ninth Circuit). A Silver Key award is the highest national honor awarded in each circuit. Through Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business and Management Mentor Program, Vickers established relationship with Johnnie Cochran, nationally renowned attorney, and Norman Nixon, former pro basketball star and president of Nixon and Associates, where Vickers has worked as a sports agent. As an agent, Vickers has represented a number of professional tennis players including Steve Campbell (former ATP Men’s Tour top 100) and Mashona Washington (former WTA Tour top 50). The grind towards success has not been an easy one nor has it stopped for Vickers since moving back to Georgia in 1999. After passing Georgia’s bar examination, Vickers immediately opened his own practice, Vickers & Associates, LLC specializing in sports, entertainment and real-estate law.

When he’s not at his law office or on the tennis court, Vickers loves reading and doing homework with his daughters Myia and Madison and spending quality time with his wife, Felice.