Lincoln’s Stacy Pickering Receives Sportsmanship Award

She’s come a long way, playing in numerous adult USTA leagues. Recently, she was nominated for the USTA Sportsmanship award, as a competing team noticed her spirit on the court during a doubles match. She is very humbled by receiving this nomination.

“I have so much fun on the court and yes I want to win, but I also want everyone else to be having as much of a good time as I am,” she said. “There are so many things we can't control while playing tennis, but our attitude and how we interact with others is something in our direct control.”

Stacy is currently a 3.0 rated player and she hopes to move up to 3.5 by the end of the year. She also wants to continue to introduce others to the sport, since it’s never too late to learn, she said.

“I love tennis because it is a perfect mix of competition, exercise, and social opportunities. I had no idea when I first started how impactful the people I would meet at tennis would be in my life.”

The 40-year old Texas native and her husband have two children and a goldendoodle. When she’s not on the tennis court, she is a Regional Manager of Customer Success for Quest Software. Her husband is a professor of photography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.