Prepared for Bryan Shelton · Team Altitude · September 2026
A national title with women. A national title with men.
Georgia Tech in 2007, Florida in 2021 — the first head coach in Division I history to win both. INTENNSE puts three women and three men on the same court, in the same match, for one team score. Its Atlanta team would like you to be part of it.
Six sections, about four minutes
■ Georgia Tech, 1999–2012
A program that had never reached the tournament. Thirteen straight, and a title.
When you took over the women’s program in 1999 it had never played in the NCAA tournament. It went in every one of your thirteen seasons, and in 2007 won Georgia Tech’s first NCAA team championship in any sport.
“What you accomplish with a team just trumps anything you can do as an individual.”
Bryan Shelton · February 2021
The rest of the record
An ACC singles champion and All-American at Tech as a player, then a 227–108 record as its women’s coach, the 2007 national title in Athens, and National Coach of the Year that season. At Florida, the program’s first men’s national title in 2021.
Inducted into the Southern Tennis Hall of Fame in Atlanta in January 2025. You called 2007 “the best tennis moment I’ve experienced” — “there is nothing quite like being a part of a team that really comes together and operates as one.”
■ Atlanta’s team
Altitude is the one team without a partner.
Eight INTENNSE teams have a Pulse Partner. Altitude, built to be Atlanta’s own, doesn’t yet — and since the city’s ATP event was retired after 2024, the only professional tennis season in Atlanta is ours.
The team today
Altitude trains at Windy Hill Athletic Club in Cobb County. Its head coach, Marcelo Ferreira, directs the club’s high-performance academy after coaching at Pepperdine and Texas Tech, and in 2025 coached Team Atlanta to the INTENNSE title.
For two seasons every INTENNSE team has lived in metro Atlanta. By 2028 each moves to a home market of its own. Altitude’s is this one.
Record live concurrents across the final series.
Nearly 8,000 fans through a 500-seat arena.
Two broadcast, two RSNs, seven FAST, three streaming — 60% of watch time on TV.
Average across forty local airings on Peachtree; the best single Arc drew 116,000.
The Rules of INTENNSE, explained · 2:04
■ Your argument, not ours
“The best option, in my opinion.”
Bryan Shelton, on going to college · 2019
You’ve said playing professional tennis is getting harder, not easier, and that college is the place to develop body, mind and game. INTENNSE is built for what comes after it: a professional team.
How Altitude is built
Players are drafted onto teams and paid a $40,000 base to compete, with total earnings of up to $70,000 over an eight-week season, and league-provided coaching. Altitude’s roster is college-made: Tyler Stice, an Atlanta native, came through Auburn; Ema Burgic through Baylor; Malkia Ngounoue through Kansas.
And the pipeline runs toward your old campus. Mason Taube came through Marcelo’s program and has signed with Georgia Tech. Sadira Ouyang came through our Challenge Series, an open draw whose winners are drafted onto a team coached by a guest professional.
Junior
Entry programs, camps and local leagues in the team format.
School
High-school and collegiate competition on the same rules.
Club
Youth and adult recreational leagues at partner facilities.
Professional
A drafted team place — and, for some, the tour after it.
■ What a Pulse Partner is
Advisors, ambassadors and stakeholders.
That is the league’s own description: people helping shape it, each tied to one team — its identity, its players, its fans. Together they reach more than 8.2 million followers.
What the others have said
“INTENNSE has real energy to it, and that’s what caught my attention right away.” — Terrell Owens, May 2026
“I think it’s faster paced, less formal, and therefore, again, more accessible.” — Shep Rose, March 2026
Altitude’s would be the first coach among them: someone who has built championship teams rather than played on them, and whom the players and coaches would recognise as one of their own.
■ Built around the tour
Designed for the months you’re home.
We know the tour takes you away from June to September. The role is built around the tour calendar, not against it — nothing in it asks you to be in Atlanta in season.
The off-season
A day with Altitude’s players and coaches at Windy Hill; the draft; a Challenge Series weekend.
The staff room
A sounding board for Marcelo and his staff on building a team culture, at whatever distance suits you.
Georgia Tech
The pathway from Atlanta’s junior programs and your old campus to a professional team place.
■ Why we sent this
We’d like you to be Altitude’s Pulse Partner.
Because of the record on this page: two programs built into champions, one of women and one of men, the first of them from Atlanta. That is the team this league is trying to build.
Where an hour could lead
We’ll bring the details of the role and fit them to your year. If it’s worth a second conversation, we’d rather it were at Windy Hill with Marcelo than on a call.
