ABOUT THIS TM TALK

Lawrence Eyre, the 2009 U.S. Tennis Professionals Association High School Coach of the Year, will discuss the key role the TM® program played in his successful 30+ years of coaching. He will also discuss his experience teaching in a high school where TM practice is part of the daily routine of all students, faculty, and staff.

ABOUT LAWRENCE EYRE

Lawrence Eyre is a teacher, author, and award-winning tennis coach. In 2009, the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA), the global leader in tennis-teacher certification and professional development, named Mr. Eyre High School Coach of the Year.

Mr. Eyre is a native of Moline, Illinois, where he was a high-school tennis champion. At Yale University, he varsity-lettered in his freshman year, taught tennis throughout his B.A. and M.A. programs, and never stopped. After putting competitive tennis on hold to pursue singing, he was selected for the Whiffenpoofs, the world’s oldest collegiate a capella group.

Mr. Eyre is a founding faculty member of Maharishi School in Fairfield, Iowa, where he has taught World History, American Government, and Science of Creative Intelligence, while coaching the tennis team to 20 Iowa state championships. He is also a board member and the interim director of the Carnegie Historical Museum, on the site of the first Carnegie Library west of the Mississippi River, in Fairfield, Iowa.

Mr. Eyre is the author of a 3-DVD set on tennis coaching in the High School Coaching Academy  series. In 2019, he authored a book of poetry, Heartland Haiku.