Alumni Spotlight

Dear Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Tennis Team: Tennis was not an easy sport to play in my hometown of Seattle, Washington when I was a kid. Seattle is a rainy town so much of the year outdoor tennis is not possible and...

Recent alums of the Penn State men’s tennis program have more than just a nine-to-five, vacation days, and happy hours to look forward to after graduation. For Nittany Lions, graduation also means being added to the alum group chat.  The...

While Billie Jean King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, she makes a resurgence as she enters the inductee class of 2021 as a member of the first group to be inducted by the...

From the former President and CEO of the United States Tennis Association—the first black woman and youngest person ever to hold the position—comes a behind-the-scenes look at the leadership skills involved in hosting the U.S. Open, the largest and...

By Arthur Kapetanakis Jermaine and Jarmere Jenkins grew up among eight other siblings as tennis-obsessed kids, watching Venus and Serena Williams on TV. In their professional careers, the brothers have had a much closer vantage point—from about 78 feet across...

Dear Stanford Women's Tennis: When deciding on colleges, academics were even more important to me than tennis. My father, a Greek immigrant, and mother instilled in us the value of education along with a love of tennis. My sister, Stacy,...

Dear Northwestern Tennis: Thank you so much for the best year of tennis I could have ever imagined and for giving me the opportunity to finish my competitive tennis career where it began.  I was 8 years old when I...

In honor of National Girls and Women in Sport Day, the ITA is featuring some of the outstanding women who make up college tennis. Kristina Minor competed for the University of Illinois for four years and was a three-time...

I began playing tennis at the age of four. Growing up in Croatia, a war-torn country in the 90s, I dreamed about playing professionally; I saw it as a vessel to a better life with more opportunity, and the...

By Binghamton Athletics At his lab at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University (Ga.), noted professor and researcher Adam Marcus '98, PhD, is working vigorously to understand the biology behind cancer - what's happening at the molecular level – in...