Firstballtolast

    BIO My name is Barry Buss, and I’d like to welcome you to my new program, First Ball To Last, an Emotional Intelligence Program for competitive tennis players. Many of you are familiar with my story, which is chronicled in detail in my recent memoir, You Can Get There From Here.   For those who are not, here are the Cliff Notes In the spring of 1983, as an 18-year-old freshman playing for the defending NCAA champion UCLA Bruins, I walked onto the court 22-0. I'd won my first 22 dual matches, tying Jimmy Connors' record for consecutive wins at UCLA. I was on the cusp of breaking every single-season record in UCLA’s storied history. A year later, I quit the team, dropped out of school, gave back my scholarship, and lived in my van, drinking and drugging my life away, wondering what had happened to me.   Well, what happened had been happening all along. I was living the tennis life with undiagnosed and untreated emotional problems that I dangerously began to self-me...