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Lee Ingham Bio Continued... | Boys & Girls Tennis Coach 

The boys' team went 8-0 In the conference in 2018, it secured its first WCAC title in 17 years, sweeping all six singles flights and winning two of the three doubles finals. The Falcons also placed second in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019. Thomas Kallarakal lost just one singles match in his four-year career, was named first-team All-Met in 2019, and now plays at Kenyon College.

With the girls winning the WCAC in fall 2017 and the boys claiming it in spring 2018, Ingham achieved a rare coaching feat. “To have two back-to-back championships was pretty special,” she said.

Ingham was twice named Coach of the Year by The Washington Post (boys 2014, girls 2017) and also received the honor from the Montgomery County Gazette (girls 2014). In 2017-18, she earned Good Counsel’s Mark Jankovitz Athletic Department Award for Excellence, and in 2018, she was named Tennis Coach of the Year by the Pigskin Club of Washington. That same year, Falcon standout Tessa Batz was named co-Player of the Year.

The program continues to thrive under Ingham’s leadership. The girls finished 7-1 and won the WCAC Tournament this past season, their third title in the past decade. The boys went 5-4 and have posted one championship and four runner-up finishes over the same span.

“It has been an honor and great pleasure meeting, working with, and challenging the remarkable girls and boys who attend Good Counsel,” Ingham said. “Helping them grow in their understanding of the game and seeing how that influences their lives has been a joy and kept me very much young at heart.”

“The unwavering support from the athletic department and administration helped me immeasurably as I strove to create an innovative, successful, and sought-after tennis program.”

Her coaching philosophy emphasizes fun, strong fundamentals, and a lasting love for the game while striving for championships.

Ingham is a USPTR Certified Professional Tennis Instructor. From 1999 to 2014, she attended the USTA Tennis Teachers Conference annually and was president of the Greater Washington Tennis Association. A competitive player, she has competed in numerous national-level events and won a gold medal in women’s doubles at the 2001 U.S. National Senior Olympics in Baton Rouge, La.

Born at Fort Sill, Okla., Ingham grew up in six states and Germany as the daughter of an Army officer. She attended Punahou School in Hawaii and Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, VA., before playing four years of college tennis at Mary Washington College. She graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science in math and a minor in physics, then earned a master’s in computer science from Johns Hopkins University in 1980.

She worked 13 years as a computer programmer and systems analyst for the Department of the Army and spent another 20 years as an IT specialist for IBM. Ingham lives in Washington Grove, MD.