DAC Tennis

Chuck Kuhle

Director of Tennis

Our goal at the DAC is to provide you with enjoyable tennis programs for all abilities

Cory Sandgren

Tennis Professional

Chuck has been the Director of Tennis at the Decatur Athletic Club since 1980. He has trained numerous sectional and national level juniors, as well as four Illinois high school champions. He currently serves as Head Coach of the Middle and Southern Illinois USTA Competition Training Center, President of the Decatur Community Tennis Foundation as well as tournament director of the USTA Men's $10,000 Futures stop in Decatur, Illinois.  In 2006, Chuck was named Illinois State Professional of the Year by the USPTA.

In 2007 he was named a member of the USTA Pro Circuit Committe

Chuck has a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Human Behavior at U.S. International University, San Diego 1980

Through his career he has earned many certifications including:

As a player, he played professionally on U.S. and Swiss satellite circuits. In 1998, he was a finalist at the USTA Men's 40 National Hardcourt Championships held in Tucson, Arizona, and was ranked #5 nationally in that division. 

Cory started teaching tennis at Gustavus Adolphus College by teaching summers at the highly touted Tennis and Life Camps from 1989-1991.  He Then was the varsity and Junior Varsity girl's assistant coach for LeSeur High School in Minnesota in 1991. Since then, Cory has been working at the Decatur Athletic club as a tennis professional, where he has worked with kids and adults of all ages and levels. He has worked with the Park District since 1993 with summer lessons and had been the tournament director for the CI adult and Junior tournaments for many years.  He was the men's and women's head tennis coach at Millikin University for the 2000\2001 year.  He has been the tennis director at the Country Club of Decatur since 2001.  Cory was MITA board member from 1999-2004 as well as the MITA Winter Grand Prix Chairman from 1993-present.  He has also had the privilege of being the tennis director of the Illinois State Special Olympics in 2001.  Cory is also the racquet stringer for the Decatur Athletic Club having strung thousands of tennis racquet.

As a player: Cory has played tennis for the Hutchinson High School and lettered three years.  He went  to state in 1986.  He played for the nationally ranked Gustavus Adolphus College and lettered three years.