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Team ChallengeJanuary 29, 2025Started over a year ago to introduce “tennis competition in a low-pressure team environment for children of all ages to develop their skills through level-based play, without an emphasis on instruction or results,” Net Generation Team Challenges have been able to achieve just that. Read More -
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H.I.T.S. Program SpotlightDecember 14, 2021The Riverbank Project A.C.T.I.O.N is a community-recognized after school education, enrichment, and recreation program serving approximately 30% of the youth attending the Riverbank Unified School District. The goal is to provide a safe and healthy environment that promotes academic enrichment and student involvement in the school and community through a variety of opportunities that help students build and develop a well-rounded character. Read More -
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Committee Chair SpotlightDecember 14, 2021From playing in USTA Adult Tournaments and Leagues since her late twenties and captaining close to 50 teams to serving on numerous USTA committees, Christine Costamagna has dedicated her time for over 20 years to make a difference in the Northern California tennis community and the sport itself. Read More -
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H.I.T.S. Program SpotlightNovember 29, 2021While many view tennis as a great sport for exercise, its benefits reach far beyond health. And that could not be more true for Madison Elementary School in Fresno, CA. For the past seven years, Madison Elementary School has been offering USTA NorCal’s H.I.T.S. programming as a pathway to expose their students to tennis, a sport they typically might never have access to, and promote their personal development both on and off the court. Read More -
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NorCal Tennis ChampionsNovember 22, 2021To all of us in the USTA family, tennis is more than just a sport. It’s a way to stay healthy, connect people and communities, and be an activity for a lifetime. That’s why USTA created a new program called Tennis Champions that educates, connects, and inspires people with a passion for tennis to help us grow tennis in their local communities. Read More -
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A New Spin on Tennis BallsNovember 03, 2021Did you know that it takes 400 years for a tennis ball to break down naturally? According to the nonprofit Recycle Balls, tennis players in the United States alone trash 125 million balls into landfills every year. That is enough to stack 625,000 recycling bins of 200 balls each, 60 miles high! Read More -
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Facility Feature: WTCOctober 15, 2021The pandemic was a challenging time for everyone, but amid all of the uncertainty, one local Northern California tennis club was able to restore a sense of community throughout. Woodland Tennis Club had a full treasury and was one of the only clubs to have open courts, so they decided to establish the Woodland Tennis Club Youth Scholarship Committee to offer scholarships to the youth of Woodland to increase the number of student-age kids that are exposed to tennis and develop their skills. Read More -
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BOD Spotlight: Pam SloanSeptember 16, 2021I love volunteering with the USTA. There are so many valuable resources that help a community and its residents get engaged in tennis—one of the healthiest and most fun activities. As a certified park & recreation professional, I’ve seen firsthand how the USTA has for many years been a terrific platform to help me introduce tennis into the community. Read More -
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H.I.T.S. Program FeatureSeptember 14, 2021What started as a way to give kids in the community a structured opportunity to play and promote their well-being, has now flourished into an annual tennis experience for the youth in the City of Merced. Led by Lam Kindavong, the City of Merced Parks and Recreation Department just wrapped its fifth year of offering a free tennis summer program using NorCal’s H.I.T.S. programming that focuses on teaching kids both tennis and life enrichment skills. Read More -
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GLTF Brings Tennis to AllSeptember 14, 2021The Gay & Lesbian Tennis Federation (GLTF) is on a mission – organize tennis that is inclusive and offer a dedicated safe space for all members of the community to play. And since their start in 1980, they’ve been doing that and more. Read More -
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H.I.T.S. Program SpotlightAugust 19, 2021The Wave Program was first created in 2016 to fulfill a need in the small Pacific Grove community – encourage the development and support of recreational programs for the youth of Pacific Grove. The program opened in the summer of 2017 and is a free two-week summer day camp for girls and boys, ages 10, 11, and 12 to experience athletics, the arts, and education in health, nutrition, and fitness in harmony with activities and classes with Pacific Grove High School (PGHS). Read More -
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NorCal Volunteer SpotlightJuly 02, 2021Linda Glassel has a long history with tennis that began as a 10-year-old and has led to careers with Wilson and Prince, and now, a volunteer with the Tennis Coalition of San Francisco. “I was connected to the Tennis Coalition through a colleague that was on the Advisory Board of a nonprofit I was running in San Francisco,” she said. “He connected me to a board member that he knew, and I was hooked on getting involved.” Read More -
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H.I.T.S. Debuts at GGPJuly 01, 2021The gleaming new exterior of the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Tennis Center at Golden Gate Park is what catches many eyes but not everyone might know everything that’s happening inside it. One of those buildings is the Koret Teaching and Learning Center classroom which recently welcomed its first middle school students as part of the San Francisco Parks and Recreation department’s Tennis and Learning Center program. Read More -
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Athena Camp - HITS PartnerJuly 01, 2021Aby Ryan first conceived the idea for Athena Camps when her daughter started kindergarten. The year her daughter started coincided with class sizes going up from 20 kids to 30. Ryan was shocked to see groups of five-year olds already running around in cliques and separated in groups at such a young age. Read More -
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Celebrating Val SwanJune 24, 2021At the start of 2020, Adult League player Val Swan was the healthiest she’d ever been. After suffering from autoimmune diseases for much of her life, she finally felt like she was past them and living. She’d rediscovered tennis after a nearly 20-year absence, which was also doing wonders for her health. She was in the best shape of her life and had even inadvertently lost weight. Read More -
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Meet Chrissie CostamagnaJune 11, 2021A common thread throughout the USTA NorCal Adult Leagues Committee is the wealth of playing experience each member brings. ALC Chair Chrissie Costamagna is no different, taking 20 years of captaining with close to 50 teams to her post on the committee. Read More -
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Dogs Get Old Tennis BallsJune 11, 2021Not much goes to waste at Rohnert Park Tennis Club - and that includes tennis balls. It’s no secret that with every hit from a racquet, balls become a little bit less effective and lose a little bit more bounce. Rohnert Park runs numerous leagues at three different levels and they were generating a high volume of balls without the ability to reuse them. Read More -
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Meet Mark FairchildsJune 03, 2021Mark Fairchilds can see it every time he’s on the courts at the Laguna Creek Racquet Club these days. “I think we have so many tennis players who are chomping at the bit for tournaments and leagues to start,” he said. “I think you can feel the excitement level.” Read More -
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Pride MonthJune 02, 2021Celebrating Pride Month at USTA NorCal. We are proud to recognize our LBGT community members, coaches, players, parents, and/or volunteers who bring tremendous value, insight, and richness to out sport and share the great impact they have on tennis in Northern California. Read More -
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Board Member Josh ConlinMay 27, 2021It’s difficult to get to know people virtually. Whether over the phone or on Zoom or Google Meet, everyone has had to adapt to getting to know people through different mediums. However, Josh Conlin is not one of these people. Read More -
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Nancy BatyMay 17, 2021Name a pro and Nancy Baty has probably presided over their match at some point in her officiating career. Read More -
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WHM: Tiffany FongMarch 31, 2021You could be forgiven for assuming tennis is the priority in Tiffany Fong’s house. Read More -
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NorCal Pro Talks YouthMarch 25, 2021Lisa Berg herself is surprised by the number. 34 years ago, she moved to California from Maui, a year and a half later a job opened up at Rafael Racquet Club in San Rafael and Berg, now the Director of Tennis has been there ever since. Read More -
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Honoring The Driver FamilyFebruary 23, 2021February marks Black History Month, an annual celebration that recognizes the remarkable contributions African Americans have made to our country in the face of extraordinary obstacles. Read More -
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BHM: Brad DriverFebruary 22, 2021When Brad Driver was a child growing up in the East Bay, his father would tell him stories about the legendary Althea Gibson. Arthur Ashe would even stay at the family home when competition brought him to Berkeley. Read More -
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BHM: Wendy GuinnFebruary 18, 2021As part of our recognition of Black History Month, we recently featured the story of the Driver family - a Northern California tennis family that tackled many firsts in tennis and life spanning generations. Read More -
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In MemoriamFebruary 03, 2021This page was created in remembrance of those who were a great contributor to the USTA NorCal tennis family, but who are sadly no longer with us. Read More -
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Chase Return The ServeNovember 27, 2019Although it started cloudily, the Chase Return The Serve event turned out to be a beautiful sunny day. Taking place at the famous Mission Dolores Park, in San Francisco, CA, on July 12, 2019, it was a full day of celebration. Over 150 kids age 5 to 14 years old, showed up for a fun day of tennis, dancing, along with doing arts and crafts Read More -
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2019 Wheelchair ChallengeNovember 26, 2019For the 2nd year in a row, NorCal retains the trophy for the North/South Wheelchair Tennis Challenge! Read More -
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A Family AffairOctober 04, 2019Giuliana Olmos is a professional tennis player ranked 349 in the world in singles and 65 in the world doubles. A 26 years old Fremont native, Giuliana played for the University of Southern California in college before going on the pro circuit for the last four years. The oldest of three girls, tennis has been a common thread as both her sisters, Sarah and Zoe also play tennis. A common ground for the family, the sisters talk about what tennis has meant to them and how tennis fits in their lives. Read More -
The USTA’s US Open Series event, Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic, scorched through San Jose in a hot week, both on and off the courts. Our Membership booth was set up all week where spectators could stop for information about programming, get an autograph from an awesome player, test their serve’ speed or do some cool social media stunts. Read More
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