"If it wasn't for my mom I would not be the person or tennis player I am today"

When she was 16 her parents bought a 60 ft. sailboat and set out circumnavigating the Pacific Ocean, ending up in the Marshall Islands in 1972.

The Marshall Islands is a sprawling chain of volcanic islands near the Equator in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the Philippines. It is a sovereign state in “free association” with the United States, meaning the United States provides defense, funding grants, and access to U.S. social services for citizens of these areas.

Pamela and her mom started a tennis shop and called it “Seven Degrees North.” The 7th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 7 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane and passes through just south of the Marshall Islands.

In 1980 Pamela moved to the Pacific Northwest for a short while and then joined her mother in the Palm Springs area of the Southern California desert. But Pamela wasn’t quite done traveling yet. In 1990 she moved to Boise, Idaho and started her own Interior Design business. She continued to play USTA and was ranked #1 doubles and #2 singles at level 4.0 in the state. She also bought a cattle ranch and was able to sell it in 2006 for a hefty profit, enabling her to retire from her business and travel the world with her mom for a year.

Back in the California desert Pam found her tennis calling and was hired as a hitting coach at Morningside Country Club. Morningside is a relatively small but very exclusive country club. Rod Laver is member here. The member owned equity club features 363 homes, about 1,800 full members and approximately 270 social members (includes tennis and gym only).

When Pamela got married to her husband Dana Mailloux he wasn’t into tennis at all.

The Vietnam Veteran and ex-Long Beach firefighter was exposed to Agent Orange during the war in South East Asia and that exposure finally took its tall late in life. He lost use of his legs and became wheelchair bound.

Pamela started introducing Dana to Wheelchair Tennis and he loved it. He actually became quite good at it. Pamela is currently working on becoming Wheelchair Tennis certified.

Today, Pamela’s activities at Morningside Country Club include

• Mostly private lessons (20% kids, 80% adults)
• PTR Workshops for Senior Development
• Planning and running of events
• Organizing of the club’s annual BNP Paribas Open Suite
• Volunteering twice a week teaching for two different wheelchair tennis organizations in the desert
• Filling in at ladies’ doubles, men's doubles and mixed matches, as needed

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