Meet Reade Snelling, digital assistant for USTA Missouri and USTA St. Louis

Reade Snelling is the new digital assistant for USTA Missouri and USTA St. Louis. His work has already begun, and his stories can be viewed here for USTA Missouri and here for USTA St. Louis.

Snelling is a senior undergraduate journalism student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he focuses on reporting and writing. He spent last fall in Beijing, China, working for the China Open as an official tournament reporter. There, he detailed day-to-day happenings and matches of the WTA-1000- and ATP-500-level event, interviewing some of the biggest names in tennis.

He has been published in the Columbia Missourian for stories covering housing, education and local government. This spring, Snelling is excited to be working on a joint-data journalism project which will explore critical mineral mining in Missouri and surrounding states. He has also worked as an editor and communicator for Toxics Link, a nonprofit environmental research and advocacy team in Delhi, India.

Snelling is a lifelong tennis fan and has been playing the sport since the age of 8. He played for Webster Groves High School in St. Louis and competed in intercollegiate tournaments at the club level while representing Mizzou. Snelling loves nothing more than a sunny, 60-degree day when he and his friends can get out and play.

He is also an avid music lover and while he loves all styles, he’s played jazz trombone for more than 10 years. A former Jazz St. Louis All-Star and Missouri All-State member, he now features for the Mizzou Concert Jazz Band.

Snelling is also very much into soccer. While he supports St. Louis City, he’s truly a Brighton & Hove Albion fan, and dreams of the day he can travel to England to watch his favorite team play.

Other ways that he stays busy are spending time with his dog, Lucie, as well as hiking and reading.

Have a story idea for Reade Snelling? Submit it at communications@movalley.usta.com.