Adolph "Ade" Butler, Class of 2004

Ade is well known for professionalizing tennis umpiring in Colorado. As the referee and chair umpire of the United Bank Tennis Classic, which began in the 1970s and lasted through the early ‘80s, Ade brought tennis umpiring to a new level in our state. 

Ade also helped to bring fair representation for states at the Intermountain Sectional level.

In the early 1970s, he worked to recruit and organize Colorado tennis clubs and high schools to register with the United States Tennis Association (USTA), thereby strengthening Colorado’s position and bringing about a new era in representative government at the Section.