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Broadcast October 29, 2014; Coach Chuck Kriese and American Tennis discusses the ongoing situation with Top-Down management of tennis in the USA on multiple fronts. Mandates have been made by the top governing organizations in Junior Tennis and Collegiate tennis over the past 2 years. These have been met with tremendous resistance during this period from players, coaches and traditionalists of tennis who hope for our governing bodies to fight the war of ideas instead of continuing to issue directives. Their Call is that 'We first must Honor the Game, if it is to honor Us' Kriese discusses how the 'American Way' has been built on the initiating of good ideas into competitive arenas that ultimately allow the 'cream' of excellence to rise. He points out that we have a definite split between Ideologies of 'Entertainment vs. Education' driven objectives in our culture that has spawned the divide in Philosophies. He states, "Entertainment driven Participation will not breed Excellence, but Educational Driven Excellence will always breed Participation."

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American Tennis with Chuck Kriese; October 22, 2014. Louisiana State Representative Steve Carter is Coach Chuck Kriese's guest on American Tennis. Steve was the tennis coach and an Athletic Director at LSU in the late 70s and early 80s. He is the chairman of the House Education committee in Louisiana. He talks in great depth about solutions to the problems of underachievement and the lack of motivation of our youth. He parallels these same problems with many shortcomings we see in the motivation levels of sports and tennis. A passionate leader and motivator, Carter is on the cutting edge of identifying and solving some of the deep rooted problems of our youth.

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Program of Oct. 15, 2015; Let's Honor the Sport so that it will Honor us all. American Tennis with Chuck Kriese; the interview is with 3 collegiate coaches and they talk candidly about the ITA agenda to Abbreviate the Traditional scoring system for our sport. The majority of the program is the discussion between and 'Educational approach' to the game vs. the attempt to make collegiate tennis an 'Entertainment driven' sport. As Coach Larry Hubbard, and Coach Evan Schreiner stand up for their DIII perspective; coach Bill Simpson also includes the perspective for DII programs that have a different objective than do their DIII Programs. This is a very in-depth interview that concludes that the proper compromise might be to have a TV-entertainment format when needed, but traditional tennis scoring should be honored and maintained as the precious heirloom of our sport that it has been for over 100 years.

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'A Tribute to Vic Braden - October 8, 2014; Today's program of 'American Tennis with Chuck Kriese' celebrates the great Teacher, Coach and Tennis Innovator Vic Braden. In the past 50 years of tennis, Braden ranks among the top 5 of most influential teachers in the game of tennis. His down to earth demeanor and his creative innovations of the game have spread the world over. He will go down in history as one of the greatest teaching legends ever. Vic Braden Died this week at the Age of 85. His posterity was great and the lessons that he taught were as well.

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American Tennis October 1, 2014 - Coach Chuck Kriese speaks directly to Current issues in Collegiate tennis. There has been an ongoing battle between traditional and novel scoring systems for collegiate tennis. He speaks to the importance of this time for Players to speak up and to stand up for 'Honoring the Game of Tennis' through its traditions and heritages. The ongoing battle between 'Educational goals and Entertainment goals' are hi-lited. The complete history of the struggle to preserve traditional scoring for tennis are discussed..