Our 2023 District Presidents

Indiana

Northern Indiana District President, Jay Gosselin

Location/District: South Bend, Indiana, Northern Indiana District

Term: First year of two-year term. In the Northern Indiana District, a President is eligible for three consecutive two-year terms.

What is your day job? What do you do on a day-to-day basis: I work for Indiana Trust Wealth Management as an Investment Advisor and Retirement Specialist. I have worked in Financial Services for almost 30 years and I enjoy helping people save for retirement and other financial goals.

Experience with the USTA?

• President of the Northern Indiana District 2022-present
• Vice-President of the Northern Indiana District 2019-2022
• Finance Committee Chairman 2019-present
• USTA Midwest Volunteer Recognition Committee 2019-2022
• Coached Junior Team Tennis 2015-2022
• Played USTA League 
• Played NELTA tournaments as a kid
• I volunteer as an official and tournament director

Anything in particular you want to address this term?

• NTRP for aging players
• Adopt a WTT/Impact Team Tennis/Tennis On Campus format for players aged 18-30
• Make tennis affordable for everyone

Hobbies outside of tennis: I enjoy fishing, golf and spending quality time with my family.

Michigan

Northeastern Michigan District President, David Foster

Location/District: Northeastern Michigan District

Term: This will be my seventh term as District President.

What is your day job? What do you do on a day-to-day basis: Financial Advisor, Vice President, Wells Fargo Advisors

Experience with the USTA: Last term served as a Delegate-At-Large. I have also served as Midwest League Committee Chair. 

Hobbies outside of tennis: My other hobbies are golf, fishing and coaching my two boys hockey teams.

Northern Michigan District President, Sue Smith

Location/District: Northern Michigan District

Term: The President is limited to two terms.

What is your day job? What do you do on a day-to-day basis:  I am a retired attorney previously employed by the federal government in Washington, D.C.

Experience with the USTA:

• Team captain and women's league participant
• Three years VP of the Alpine Regional Tennis Association

Hobbies outside of tennis: I enjoy reading and have significant involvement in many charitable organizations organized around homelessness and literacy.

Southeastern Michigan District President, Tim Crouson

Location/District: Brighton, Michigan, Southeastern Michigan District

Term: First year of two-year term, first term as President. Southeastern Michigan is limited to two consecutive two-year terms.

What is your day job? What do you do on a day-to-day basis: I am a CRM Administrator at Destination Ann Arbor. In this role, I maintain our sales database and work with our different clients and local partners to promote Washtenaw County, Michigan. I also maintain our relationships with different data providers. Additionally, I run our membership, tourism ambassador program and organize our Annual Meeting. I am currently a Master’s Student in Business Analytics.

Experience with the USTA:

• President, USTA Southeastern Michigan Board of Directors 2023-present
• Midwest Junior Team Play Committee 2023-present
• National League Committee 2023-present
• Vice President, USTA Southeastern Michigan 2020-2023
• USTA Southeastern Michigan Treasurer 2018-2020
• Locally have chaired: Junior Team Tennis, Budget/Finance, Human Resources
• USTA League player since 2013, captain since 2015
• Formerly served as a facility representative, JTT Coach and Tournament Director
• Volunteer at numerous district championship events

Anything in particular you want to address this term?

• Competitive opportunities for 18-39 age group
• Pathway/transition program for tournament and JTT players to find league teams
• Facility relationships and incentives to run USTA programming, especially in the junior space

Hobbies outside of tennis: I am a dog dad to a nearly 4-year-old Schnauzer. Another sport I enjoy is curling and I’m a wannabe reader, but I get distracted easily.

Western Michigan District President, Erik Anderson

Location/District: Western Michigan District

Term: Western Michigan is three-year terms. I am in my second year as President and eighth year on the board.

What is your day job? What do you do on a day-to-day basis: I am the Association Tennis Director at the YMCA of Greater Kalamazoo. I oversee seven indoor tennis courts at two locations (Maple and Portage) along with four outdoor clay tennis courts. As of 2023, I am becoming certified in Pickleball. I have the certification of multi-team leader within the YMCA of USA education track which meets the credentials to run and operate a facility or branch within a YMCA association.

Experience with the USTA: I started as an official and tournament site director, then became a player, and finally a certified coach through USPTA for the past 14 years. I have served on numerous committees through USTA Western Michigan and worked through the board to become President for 2022-2024.

Anything in particular you want to address this term? I want to accomplish greater collaborations between club owners and USTA programs and educate them on win-win opportunities. I want to gain knowledge of what is working and what is not working at facilities, broken down by size.

Hobbies outside of tennis: I enjoy ice hockey and golf.  I am pursuing my ice hockey goalie coaching certification through USA Hockey and am a volunteer ice hockey coach.

Ohio

Northeastern Ohio District President, Carolyn Cheverine

Location/District: Northeastern Ohio District

What is your day job? What do you do on a day-to-day basis: I recently retired as a corporate finance and governance lawyer for The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Previously, I have been general counsel and/or corporate secretary for several large public manufacturing companies. I was a C.P.A. with PriceWaterhouse early in my career. With respect to committee work, I often have served on governance, finance, investment and audit committees for nonprofit organizations.

Experience with the USTA: I joined the USTA Northeastern Ohio Board of Directors two years ago and served as its Treasurer and on the Governance Committee. I recently became the District President.  Prior to that my only connection to USTA was as an Adult League participant for over 30 years.

Anything in particular you want to address this term?

• Require officials at all levels of playoffs
• Increase playing opportunities for high school and college age students who do not play on their respective schools’ teams but want to play tennis
• Limit the number of self-rated players who can play on each team (or at least on teams that advance)
• NTRP for older players

Hobbies outside of tennis: I enjoy hiking, bicycling, reading and genealogy research.

Northwestern Ohio District President, Doug Rice

Location/District: Sandusky, Ohio, Northwestern Ohio District

Term: First year of two-year term. First term as President.

What is your day job? What do you do on a day-to-day basis: For the last three years I have been working as a Professional Tennis Official on the USTA Pro Circuit. I have been an active tennis official for more than fourteen years in the Midwest and across the country.

Skills or connections that would relate to committee work:

• I would like to think that I can relate to many people at different levels.
• Earlier in my professional background, I spent more than twenty-five years in sales and marketing throughout the Midwest in Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul and Indiana
• I also served various management roles at Verizon, Knight Ridder, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals and Tenneco Automotive
• After relocating back to Ohio, I served for three years as Vice-President of Marketing and Advertising for an Ohio-based newspaper
• I attended the University of Toledo

Experience with the USTA: I came to tennis late as a junior and after a hiatus after school, started playing leagues again and found it to be an important organization within the community.

Anything in particular you want to address this term?

• Helping grow the game of tennis (particularly juniors) in Northwestern Ohio
• Foster collaborative relationships within the district
• Work with new and non-traditional organizations to broaden our base

Hobbies outside of tennis: I like listening to music and watching movies and good programming. I need to rekindle some old hobbies because I don’t have enough to list here.

Ohio Valley District President, Darrin Heinz

Location/District: I live in Dayton, Ohio and represent the Ohio Valley District.

What is your day job? What do you do on a day-to-day basis: My family owns and operates two tennis clubs in the Dayton area, Quail Run Racquet Club and Kettering Tennis Center. The only connections that I have to USTA committee work is that I am around tennis every day, but not in a corporate environment.

Experience with the USTA: I have been a USTA captain for more than 20 years and still play some age group tournaments.

Anything in particular you want to address this term?

• Continue to grow tennis across the district
• Update the Bylaws to reflect the most current state of the association
• Continue to be the leader in innovation across the Midwest Section

Hobbies outside of tennis: I enjoy hiking in the National Parks with my wife and snow skiing any chance I can get.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin District President, Jeff Dittman

Location/District: Shorewood, Wisconsin, Wisconsin District 

Term: First year of two-year term. In the Wisconsin District you’re eligible for two, two-year terms then you must step down for a cycle.

What is your day job? What do you do on a day-to-day basis: I am a Finance Manager at Johnson Controls. I manage financials for our government systems group, budgeting/forecasting and tracking daily/monthly financial goals.

Experience with the USTA:

• Founded/played at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Tennis On Campus (TOC) team 2007-2009
• USTA Midwest TOC Volunteer 2017-2022
• USTA Wisconsin District President 2021-present
• USTA Wisconsin District Vice President 2019-2021
• Organize/run Milwaukee Adult Social League 2018-present
• Play men’s USTA League

Anything in particular you want to address this term?

• Need for volunteer onboarding class/webinar lead by USTA staff
• Build better relationships with USTA Staff/Board and district presidents 
• Get some new people to volunteer in my district

Hobbies outside of tennis: I enjoy indoor and beach volleyball as well as pickleball. I also recently became a father and am trying to train my 4-month-old son, Watson, to play tennis. (: Slow progress so far.