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ABOUT LUKALO
Christine Lukalo progressed through Nairobi schools to become a top junior, international player,
representing Kenya on tours in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and Germany. She later apprenticed with
Coach Anne Greenwell, at the time the Kenya Lawn Tennis Association’s, (K.L.T.A) national coach,
and United Kingdom Lawn Tennis Association (L.T.A) instructor. She rose through K.L.T.A. travelling
coach, head coach of the junior, national squad and then national coach. By this time, she had
K.L.T.A., advanced level certification, after training with Paul Douglas, of the British L.T.A., the
former coach of British Davis Cup team and author. Placing first nationally led to representing Kenya
in Harare, Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe L.T.A. certification.
Studies in New York (N.Y.), U.S.A, followed, where she played in the number one singles position,
and won the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Conference (I.C.A.C.) for her University’s first such title. She
also assumed the role of assistant coach for the men’s tennis team, declining head coach position
due to studies. Certification from the United States Professional Tennis Registry (U.S.P.T.R), annual
symposia and workshops was next, followed by organising local grass roots programmes such as
Play Tennis America, United States Tennis Association (U.S.T.A) adult leagues, junior development
programmes, junior league tennis and junior team tennis. Following head coach and tennis specialist
positions in Switzerland, Lukalo’s study emphasis moved from engineering to sports science with the
U.S.T.A, U.S.P.T.R, personal and university studies. This included physics, injury prevention, sports
nutrition and conditioning, general psychology and top grades in child development. In between
studies and teaching, she travelled to U.S.T.A. tournaments, earning wins over the Eastern division’s
top three. By 1997, four of her N.Y. students had earned positions on college teams, one of them
with a division one tennis scholarship. To date her teaching and playing experience has covered
Switzerland where she taught in French, Germany, England, the U.S.A, Canada, Eastern and
Southern Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Botswana.
In 1997, back in Kenya, Lukalo continued a tennis and sports programme for underprivileged
children, this time starting with the slums of Kibera. In October of 1998, Lukalo accepted the position
of head coach and manager of the national under-18 team. She also served as director for the
International Tennis Federation (I.T.F.), East African circuit Nairobi leg. She won several titles
including the Kenya National Championships, attended I.T.F. conferences in Sun City and Pretoria,
South Africa, and completed the I.T.F. advanced level course. She also received British council
certification in project management.
Lukalo resumed representation of Kenya on the national women’s tennis team in international
competition. In Portugal for the international Federation Cup 2000, and on East and Southern Africa
circuits, through 2001, the year in which she was ranked number 1 in both the Kenyan and East
African circuits in both singles and doubles. She lost only one match in three years of doubles
competition. In July of 2004, Lukalo accepted the role of manager/coach for the national, under-18
team. This became a triumphant season for Kenyan tennis, as it is the only year a Kenyan won both
legs of the East African, I.T.F. circuit, and yielded several semi-final and quarterfinal placements by
the Kenyan team. Previous years bore pre-quarterfinal placement as Kenya’s best result, with one
quarter-finalist in 1998, another Kenyan best at the time.
In 1997, Lukalo had started the first full tennis camps in Kenya. Since then they have been a
perennial item on her Kenyan schedule, (previously in New York with same association name
P.E.T., through the U.S.T.A.), and also Switzerland. In July 2003, Lukalo officially expanded the
camp experience to include concentrated, professional training in other major sports, namely rugby,
golf, swimming, cricket, soccer and squash. She continues as the director of the newly named All
Sports Camps International (ASCI), which has now had participants travelling from as far afield as
Australia, New York, California and Germany. Through 2006, several students continued to make
their mark on Kenya junior tennis teams. The Kenya number one for 2006, winning the boys’ under
twelve, mirrored her first student to win the girls national championships under 12 when Lukalo
herself was a national, junior squad member of 15 years of age. 2006 also brought an invitation of a
Florida tour for a PET/JET team, through AS Camps, complementing the, South African tour.
May 2007 ushered in the position of manager of the Kenya national tennis team to the 9tth All Africa
Games in Algiers, Algeria. Lukalo also started presenting in I.T.F. workshops on sports science
(energy systems, ethics and drug use in tennis). I.T.F. courses are an aspect of professional
improvement and maintenance in her annual schedule.
Lukalo’s students continue to work their way up the Kenyan rankings, with the latest three-way,
training-partner entries in July-December 2009 into the top ranks of girls’ singles under-10 and 12
and boys’ singles under-10.
PROGRAMME FOR EXCELLENCE IN TENNIS / JUNIOR EXCELLENCE IN TENNIS (P.E.T./J.E.T.)
I.T.F., K.L.T.A., U.S.P.T.R., Z.L.T.A.