Margery Krieger Slonaker, founder of Best Foot Forward, grew up in a family of eight children in which gender was neither a reason for winning nor an excuse for poor play. She played tennis and field hockey at Manhattanville College where she earned her degree in government. Margery was also a ranked tennis player in the United States Tennis Association and a national champion in platform tennis. The mother of three girls, she guided their athletic endeavors in swimming, tennis and lacrosse, which led to successful careers at Division I schools – two at Princeton University and one at the University of Virginia. She has coached tennis at the high school level and has been a platform tennis coach for more than 20 years. Margery’s personal history and lifelong involvement with sports make her uniquely qualified to offer a high school athlete the individual attention to the college recruiting and application process that will enable her to put her best foot forward.

Sarah Slonaker Reed, co-founder of Best Foot Forward, understands first-hand what it takes to be a student-athlete. Like her mother, she was a national platform tennis champion and a ranked tennis player in the United States Tennis Association. An All-State tennis and lacrosse player in high school, Sarah went on to play tennis at Princeton University, where she was also an editor of the Daily Princetonian and a writer for the Princeton Alumni Weekly magazine. After graduating in 1998, Sarah taught English at Oak Knoll School in Summit, New Jersey. During this time, she coached tennis and lacrosse at the high school and college level and tutored students in verbal and math skills for the PSAT, SAT and SAT II. She earned a Masters degree in English from Columbia University in 2003 and moved to San Francisco to become head of the English Department at Stuart Hall High School. Sarah now lives in Seattle where she’s currently working full time for Best Foot Forward.