Tennis Camp Director

Coach Donald Cook has over 15 years of high school coaching experience as a Varsity Tennis Head Coach, starting on his tenth year as head coach at Carver Center for the Arts. During his impressive coaching career, Coach Cook has taken tennis teams from Westminster HS, Franklin HS and now Carver Center to the state tournament. Overall, he has had his tennis players participate in nine state tournaments during his 15 years of high school tennis coaching, including the last four years at Carver! 

Prior to coaching tennis, Donald Cook earned an undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Baltimore and then Towson University to earn a teaching certification. That then led to a teaching career as a high school math teacher for 15 years. He is currently in sales at ACC Telecom based in Columbia, Maryland and continues to put his educational experience to work as a tutor at Sylvan Learning Center.

In addition to his interest in tennis, Coach Cook has a vast basketball background, coaching at a variety of schools, including most recently assisting with the Carver Center girls’ basketball team. In 2004, he was the assistant coach at CCBC Dundalk winning the Regional Finals and making it as far as the NJCAA Quarterfinals! Additionally, Coach Cook has helped to run basketball camps at Michigan State, Notre Dame, Purdue and more locally, the esteemed Coach Wootten’s Basketball Camp in western Maryland. Let your son or daughter’s tennis game be the next to be positively impacted by Coach Cook’s long and distinguished coaching career.

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Noah Rittenberry has taken his love of working with kids and young athletes and has run with it. He is currently employed by BCPS as a School Safety Assistant (SSA) at Carver Center as well as the Tennis Varsity Assistant Head Coach at Carver Center. As the SSA at Carver Center for the Arts, he focuses on fostering a secure and supportive school environment by working with students, staff, and administrators. This includes vital tasks such as crisis intervention, providing social and emotional support, conflict resolution and visitor screening. Coach Rittenberry plays a variety of sports as he did throughout his high school varsity athletic career. In his spare time Noah enjoys hobbies such as cooking, writing poetry, and watching true crime TV.

Rittenberry has assisted Coach Cook as Assistant Coach for Carver Center’s tennis team for a number of years and no doubt contributes to the success of the Carver Center tennis program as numerous players have gone on to the Maryland Tennis State Finals. Noah has been described by a number of Carver Center teachers and staff as “phenomenal working with kids,” “passionate about tennis,” and “terrific at building rapport with kids and so much fun.”