Grant Workman is the Executive Director of CourtBloom Community, Inc. and a USPTA / RSPA Certified Tennis Professional with more than twelve years of experience teaching, coaching, developing players, and building youth tennis programs. His career has been shaped by a commitment to making high-quality instruction and youth development opportunities available not only in established tennis communities, but also in places where children and families have historically had fewer opportunities to participate.
Grant has spent more than a decade teaching and coaching young people across New Hampshire, New England, Texas, and other regions of the United States. His experience spans schools, municipal recreation departments, nonprofit programs, camps, community organizations, private facilities, and individual player development. He has worked with children from their first experience holding a racquet through more advanced stages of development, always emphasizing confidence, effort, resilience, sportsmanship, and a positive relationship with physical activity.
For approximately seven years, Grant served as a Head Tennis Professional with Advantage Kids and became deeply involved in the organization’s work throughout New Hampshire’s Lakes Region. He helped deliver, strengthen, and grow programming in communities including Laconia, Gilford, Tilton, Franklin, and surrounding areas. Through that work, Grant developed longstanding relationships with families, schools, recreation departments, facilities, and community leaders while helping make structured tennis programming available to children who otherwise may not have had consistent access to the sport.
That experience became foundational to Grant’s approach to community tennis. He saw firsthand that access can vary dramatically from one town to the next: some communities have established programs, facilities, and pathways for children to participate, while neighboring communities may have courts but little or no consistent instruction. Grant’s work has increasingly focused on identifying those gaps and building programs around the needs of the community rather than expecting families to travel to places where opportunities already exist.
Grant later served as Director of Player Development with Bad Dawg Tennis, where he maintained a substantial weekly teaching schedule and worked with players across a wide range of ages and skill levels. His broader coaching background also includes work with Gilford Hills Tennis & Fitness, municipal recreation programs, schools, and community-based organizations. Across these roles, he has coached hundreds of young players and built extensive experience designing age-appropriate programming, managing groups, developing individual athletes, and creating environments that keep children engaged over time.
CourtBloom grew out of that accumulated experience. Grant founded the organization to build a model that could serve communities year-round, reduce financial and geographic barriers, and use tennis as a vehicle for broader youth development. Rather than concentrating programming only where demand and infrastructure are already strongest, CourtBloom seeks out communities where additional access can make a meaningful difference and works with schools, municipalities, recreation departments, local businesses, and other organizations to make that access sustainable.
As Executive Director, Grant leads CourtBloom’s program development, community partnerships, fundraising, expansion strategy, technology, and day-to-day operations under the oversight of the Board of Directors. He remains directly involved in teaching and program delivery, keeping CourtBloom’s organizational decisions closely connected to the children, families, coaches, and communities the nonprofit exists to serve.
