NEK Tennis
NEK Tennis is coached by Di Holloway.
Di Holloway
Girls Tennis Coach
Diana (Di) Holloway started her love of tennis while growing up in Lindsborg, Kansas. With this Swedish community’s strong tennis heritage and amazing coaches, she was able to collect 4 State tennis titles during her high school career. She received her Math education degree at Washburn University while competing on the Lady Blue’s tennis and basketball teams. In college, she started her coaching career teaching tennis lessons at Kossover Tennis Center and coached basketball and tennis at Topeka West and Highland Park. After graduation, she taught Math and coached tennis, basketball, and track at Topeka High. Di coached JH girls’ homeschool basketball for 12 years starting in 2009. In 2017 she helped start a homeschool tennis clinic and coached the inaugural NEK Girls’ Tennis team in 2021. Since 2007 she has run her church’s weeklong tennis camp in the summers. Di and her husband, Dan, have been blessed to homeschool and coach all six of their children.