Reiny Maier has run this camp for 27 years. He played No. 1 for a Wisconsin State University at Whitewater and was a teaching pro at Nick Bollettieri's original junior camp in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He later worked with Harry Hopman, who was one of the co-founders of the original Amherst Camp program. He heads a staff of roughly a dozen pros, a few of whom have been a part of the Amherst program for more than 10 years. Most are or have been college players; a least a few, like Maier, teach school during the rest of the year.
Maier chooses pros based on their ability to communicate and on their people skills, and then works with them to ensure that everyone teaches the same methodology. So you are not going to get the pro on one court telling you something significantly different when your group changes instructors. Maier variously roams from court to court, supplementing his pro's expertise with his own, or takes charge of teaching one of the courts so that several groups get to hear his take on what they need to do to improve.
He has a well-honed ability to quickly find and assess technical problems in strokes.
