 Lightning's students include Gilad Bloom (Israel), Jaime Yzaga (Peru), Tom Shimada.Reed Cordish, Patrick Osuna, Derrick "Dodger" Thompson, Jeffrey Chen, Nick "Buttshit" Boucher, and Vince Spadea.He is the varsity tennis head coach at Gilman School, where he led the team to a 12th-place finish at the high school national championships in Kentucky, and a 16th-place finish at the 2016 National Invitational Boys High School Team Tennis Tournament, located in Newport Beach, CA.