About Brian

Brian was born at Fort Sanders Hospital in Knoxville, TN on April 3, 1973. He is the one and only child of Ken and Jane. Brian spent a lot of time learning to entertain himself when he was young, and even now he is very self-sufficient and wholeheartedly enjoys time spent alone.

Brian went to several different schools growing up, Tate’s School of Discovery, Ball Camp Elementary, Christian Academy of Knoxville, Bearden High School, and then the McCallie School, a boarding school in Chattanooga, TN. He was always active in sports, primarily in soccer and tennis. When he was 12, he decided to focus on tennis, and he began to practice almost every day for the next 12 years. It was tennis and academics that brought him to McCallie, where he helped win a Team State Championship and he was a Doubles State Champion.

For college, Brian attended the University of the South in Sewanee, TN—a Division III Athletics school with 1400 students and a 10,000 acres campus on top of beautiful Monteagle Mountain near Chattanooga. While there he earned a BS in Political Science and attended NCAA Division III Tennis Nationals all four years, as well as earning one Singles All-American and two Doubles All-American titles. He was also a member of the Order of the Gownsmen, a University of the South academic society, after his sophomore year.

Upon graduation, Brian decided to try his hand at professional tennis. He traveled all over the United States and met people from all over the world. But he also found out how incredibly talented many of those people could be! If you ask him if he was really good at tennis, he’ll answer, “It depends on who you compare me to.” Of course, if you challenge him to a game, he’ll beat you still in no time flat!

In March of 1997, Brian moved to Charlotte, NC to “get a job in the real world and start paying off student loans”. He worked for a company called Internet in Fort Mill, SC for four years. Then, he used his Political Science degree as a way to get his foot in the door at the Premier, Inc. Political Advocacy division where he uses his self-taught computer skills to do website coding and design.

Brian is very much looking forward to marrying Barbee.