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text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iD-m71tVtvI\/YFqe83wjk8I\/AAAAAAAAenw\/8TyRDjvV_SE4N6jXB5uGmgnzPD35G4zhwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1322\/Ann%2BKoger%2B3E.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"744\" data-original-width=\"1322\" height=\"1094\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iD-m71tVtvI\/YFqe83wjk8I\/AAAAAAAAenw\/8TyRDjvV_SE4N6jXB5uGmgnzPD35G4zhwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w1742-h1094\/Ann%2BKoger%2B3E.jpg\" width=\"1742\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ffe599;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E INTERVIEWED BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SHELIA CURRY IN MARCH 2019 (All Rights Reserved)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAnn Koger is one of the most inspirational women that I have had the  opportunity to become acquainted with in my lifetime. She is one of  those invincible human beings that fulfilled her dreams and life  pursuits at a time when segregation and racism were wholly systemic and  acceptable.  The accomplishments achieved by Ann practically appear as if doors for  African-Americans and women were wide open and inviting, when in  actuality they were closed and unwelcoming.  Ann has earned a societal place among the greatest, yet she is not the  least bit interested in the shine that inherently comes with it. She  sees her journey as experiences that were either “not an option,” to “I  just kept going.”  From growing up in segregated Baltimore, Maryland to retiring in 2016  after 35 years as the Head Coach of Women’s Tennis at Haverford  University.  Here are some of Ann’s accomplishments and accolades:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EA four-year letter winner in four of the seven varsity sports  (basketball, field hockey, volleyball and tennis) she competed in while  at Morgan State University and was inducted into the school's Athletic  Hall of Fame in 1982. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe second female member of Morgan State’s tennis men’s team,  ranking second in singles between 1969-1972 and first in doubles. In  1971\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EOne of the country’s first African American women to play in the Virginia Slims Tennis Circuit, competing from 1973 to 1977\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EIs a certified USPTR teaching professional and a member of the  Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). Her educational background  includes B.S. and M.S. degrees from Morgan State University, and an  Ed.D. in Sports Administration from Temple University.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EOfficiated at many levels of basketball for 25 years, and in 1985,  she became the first woman to officiate an NCAA Division I men’s  basketball game.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe First Vice President of the American Tennis Association, Koger  was the co-director of the 1985 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis  Championships.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EHonored by many organizations throughout her career, Koger received a  national community service award from USTA\/Volvo\/ITA in 1989 and  another from USTA for Division III in 1996.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EIn February 2000, Ann Koger cancelled the Haverford College women’s  tennis team training in Hilton Head, South Carolina to join the national  boycott over the Confederate flag that flies over the state’s Capitol  Building.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EHonored as part of the 2007 International Tennis Hall of Fame  Exhibit ‘Breaking the Barriers’ at the 2007 US Open in New York, N.Y. as  an accomplished and pioneering professional tennis player and as a  contributor to the exhibit through artifacts and oral history.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ESelected as a member of the Black Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2010  and was inducted into the Hall of Achievement at the Philadelphia  Association of Black Sports and Culture\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EDevotion to tennis has earned her a spot in the United States Tennis  Association (USTA) Middle States Hall of Fame Class of 2010.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EServed as 2015 Coach of the United States Tennis Association Middle States Girls 18 National Team Championship.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAlso In 2015, Koger was elected and appointed to a second term of  the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Board of Directors and  serves as a member of the ITA Small College Operating Committee\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ENamed the 2016 Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Coach of the Year\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch2 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EYou have no clue, or perhaps you do, how encouraging  your life experience is to those of us who read it – especially given  the time in which you grew up. You have set so many standards in life,  across the board. You are a paradigm in sports and in society because of  living a life without walls that could not be stopped by the design of  American society.\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cb\u003EHow do you now see your ability to live your life the way that you  have? Do you find your life’s experience as incredible and encouraging  as I do?\u003C\/b\u003E  Well, some people have asked me that before and to be very  honest, I don’t think of myself in that light.  I think of myself as  someone who has set out to accomplish some things, and a person who has  set out to do something that someone told me I couldn’t do, so I was  determined to do it. And as far as most people around me, teachers and  family, I never got any instruction that I couldn’t do that, because I  was Black, I couldn’t do that because I was a woman. My mother’s  favorite saying when somebody said you can’t do something was, “And why  not?”  She was always pushing back. And also in my family, my immediate  family, my aunts and uncles were very accomplished educationally in  different careers, so I thought nothing of saying, respectfully,  whenever possible, saying what was on my mind, and doing the things that  I thought I should be doing and that were appropriate to do and some  things that nobody else had done, so I thought it would be fun to try to  do it.  But I never thought of it as breaking a barrier and doing something that  no one else would do, and people would gasp and say “wow, that’s  something else there…”, I just never think of it like that. I just think  of doing things and moving forward and helping people who want to do  those same type of things or do some new things, and moving on.  Do you think that perhaps you see it that way because of the design of  American society at the time?  Well, I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland,  where I started my tennis training and we had the old Colored tennis  courts and the White tennis courts, and we had the White clubs that we  couldn’t go into, and we also had Jewish clubs because Baltimore had a  very heavy Jewish population growing up, and it wasn’t so much being a  child, and a young adult saying I have no courts to play on, but I  played on the courts that we were allowed to play on.  I knew it was  something racial, but it was kind of interesting because you had to get  permits to play on the White courts and the orange clay courts, but when  they were done for the day, we could play on them – it was open to us.  But they had first reservations on them.  The other thing that was helpful that I saw and benefitted from was that  when the Jewish people were allowed to be on the court after White  people and then with White people, they would help us by passing the  permits to the adults to play, then when the adults were finished  playing, the kids could come on and play, or if the courts were open we  could play. So, it was never that we didn’t have facilities to play, it  was that you had certain places where you could play.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yZJyvhtU_2w\/YFg1CyfYdlI\/AAAAAAAAenc\/j6GdnTBSqEYAUpuN8rC2yw7oUBjQmlwaACLcBGAsYHQ\/s954\/Ann%2BKoger%2B2021.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"954\" data-original-width=\"949\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yZJyvhtU_2w\/YFg1CyfYdlI\/AAAAAAAAenc\/j6GdnTBSqEYAUpuN8rC2yw7oUBjQmlwaACLcBGAsYHQ\/w636-h640\/Ann%2BKoger%2B2021.jpg\" width=\"636\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBut had to go through changes to play there.\u003C\/b\u003E  Yeah. They now  have a monument near where the clay courts used to stand near the Flower  House in Baltimore where a group of players from the two prominent  Black tennis clubs, one of which was the Baltimore Tennis Club which was  the outgrowth of the Monumental City Tennis Club who hosted the first  American Tennis Association (ATA) Nationals in Baltimore in 1917, were  arrested for trying to get onto the tennis courts and had to go to  court, and I assume probably had to pay a fine for being disrespectful.  Later on, a memorial came in its place, but after that trial, in the mid  to late 1950s, that’s when barriers were beginning to be broken.  By their actions, it opened up a lot of things, not just in tennis, but  for integration. And growing up, I saw those things as a kid. It wasn’t  made a big deal to me, but I saw that happening and I knew that when the  adults could do things, then that meant that I could do something.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESo, as a child, you didn’t feel inundated with segregation.\u003C\/b\u003E   Well, I didn’t, because I was a kid - I was born in 1950, when you had  all of those landmark cases getting ready to occur when I was young. I  had an older cousin who was involved in the NAACP, aunts and uncles who  were involved in a lot of the court actions as lawyers and teachers who  were very community minded.  I wasn’t not educated about it, but because I had a family, along with  their friends, who were so involved in it, I felt covered and protected  in that, these people were going to make things happen for the people  who couldn’t do them.  Growing up in Baltimore had its issues, the neighborhoods were  challenged. Of course, in some neighborhoods we had a higher  concentration of different racial groups and we as Black people tended  to start to move behind Caucasian people in their neighborhoods, and  even moreso, the Jewish people. We moved from a predominately  African-American neighborhood into a predominately Jewish neighborhood.  And the Jewish people moved out of town – they called it running (they  were running from us).  The dynamics of being in school when I was in the African-American  neighborhood that I grew up in, Madison Park\/Bolton Hill where the  Caucasian people had vacated, then we moved into the neighborhood that  was Jewish, we were the 5th or 6th family that moved onto the block, and  eventually they were waiting for their houses to be built in  Pikesville, outside of Baltimore, and as their house were completed,  they would move out and more Black families would move in.  And the same dynamic occurred in schools. The school I transferred from  was all Black, all Black teachers – I didn’t know any White teachers.  I  moved to a school, when I was in the fifth grade that had predominately  Jewish teachers - that was something different.  My physical education  teacher happened to be someone who grew up and went to college with my  mother, and she was the only Black person in the school.  When there was a Jewish holiday, there was one 5th grade class left in  the school, because all the Jewish kids were on holiday – it was just  amazing, it threw me off. And our substitute would be a Black person. I  could see things changing that way.  How it impacted tennis and my career, when I started playing tournaments  in Baltimore, there were only a few junior tournaments, a few of us  junior players which at that time were 17 and under (now it’s 18 and  under), so it was only about four or five of us that played and we were  in the junior development program of The Baltimore Tennis Club. We would  play in tournaments and we’d all be in the same bracket, by coincidence  we were told – over, and over again.  By the time this happened for the second or third time, even as kids we  knew that if anybody came through, it could only be one. It could only  be one person of Color that could come through.  That occurred, coming  from junior tennis, with me.  At first I felt as though I wanted to win  because I was playing in the sport and I’d honed my skills and I wanted  to win the tournament. But I also knew that I had the burden of being or  surviving through the draw as the only Black person to get to the  finals.  And then I knew that I was subject to being cheated, either by  the person across the net, and sometimes the official, I had to learn  how to handle that.  The first time that happened to me, I tried to  appeal to the desk, and they wouldn’t even come down and help. I was  taught that in sports you had to be fair.  I went back down to the  court, and the young lady that I was playing against, started cheating  even more. So, when the match was over, I had been taught that you had  to shake hands, I went up there and shook her hand, and I told her, “I’m  gonna keep playing tennis until I meet you again, and I’m gonna beat  you.”  She looked at me like I was from outer space.  Then, of course,  being a 12-year-old, I go up and sit down under a tree and boo hoo’d and  made up my mind that either I was going to play this sport and overcome  this mess – or quit.  So, I just kept going.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003EAfter that, what pushed you forward? Were you driven to succeed in the sport because you loved it, or because of what happened?\u003C\/b\u003E    Well, it was that and a lot of other things.  It was also because it  was fun, and not a lot of people do it. Me and my sisters, on the block  that we lived on, we were the only kids that played tennis – nobody  else played, so that made us kind of unique.  My mother played tennis,  and eventually two people moved across the street, they played a little.  And then, I started getting better and better at it, I was like “Oh  wow!” \u003Cspan id=\"fullpost\"\u003EThen people started coming to my attention, such as Althea Gibson and  Arthur Ashe and Dr. Johnson’s troop that he took around to play tennis  matches – mostly in tournaments that were just starting to accept Black  people in tournaments, because there were still some that we couldn’t  play in because they were on courts that we weren’t allowed on.   It was a lot of those different feelings that, I’m going to stick with  this, and I’m gonna keep playing until “I” decide that I don’t want to  play anymore. I wasn’t gonna let somebody decide for me what I wasn’t  going to do anymore.  \u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"fullpost\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EGiven the  circumstances within which you grew up, how do you look at tennis today,  with specific regard to how Black children are allowed into the sport  and what’s available to them.\u003C\/b\u003E  \u003Cb\u003EDo you see it as particularly evolved, or still needing some evolution?\u003C\/b\u003E  Well, I think there could be a whole lot more of an evolution. In  coaching for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) middle states, I  was coaching some junior teens, and when I started out coaching, of  course I knew that there would be few to none youth that would qualify  to go to national championship play. And over the years, I started  seeing a few more, and a few more and it was…\u0026nbsp; I’m not a person to cry  like that, but if I was, it was like “Wow!” There are more kids out here  that are getting to the level where they can qualify for nationals and  special teams.  When I started coaching the Girls’ 18s National Teen  Championship, each year I saw more and more and then one year I came, I  almost did cry, because as I looked over the field of play I could see  all the different kinds of juniors of Color, Chinese kids,  African-Americans, kids that had come to this country and grown up from  Haiti, East Indian players, and they looked like they were the  predominant group that year – I just stood there in awe. I knew that we  had finally come to a point where we had some participation over the one  or two, and that they were out there playing national level of tennis.  Now as far as the other side of evolution, we still don’t have enough –  tennis is an expensive sport. When I came up, they said it would cost  upwards of $10,000 a year to be able to go out and play all of the  tournaments that I needed to play to be nationally ranked, so I knew  that figure had jumped up. That meant that those kids had come from  affluent families, or they had some level of sponsorship either through  their tennis section, their clubs, their families, their communities,  and that they had places to train that had coaches that knew how to take  them to the next level of skill accomplishment. In that area, I think  we’ve done better, but I still think we have a ways to go, because under  the president for the past two years of the USTA, Katrina Adams, I  think she has made a great contribution, not just in face, people seeing  her face, but because she’s on the inside and she knew those challenges  growing up in Chicago playing tennis, that there was more work to be  done and that work is not over.    But I think that we still need to find a way to get down to bringing  tennis to the neighborhoods and keeping those kids in the sport of  tennis. I think we can start to attract them, and mostly because the  generation we’re dealing with, unfortunately, Althea Gibson is somebody  they don’t know, and Arthur Ashe is somebody that they might know, but  maybe because they’re older to them. They look at Venus and Serena  Williams and they’re more realistic to them and are their heroes, coming  from Compton and the family bringing them up and striving to make them  champions under the father’s methods of teaching them tennis. They can  look at them and actually relate.   Now of course those kids have another draw where they have basketball  where it’s easier to get to the top in basketball and there’s always  teams and somebody sponsoring them and they can earn their reputation of  excellence right in their little community and hometown – with tennis,  you have to travel to do that. Football the same thing, soccer has  become the same kind of thing, tennis is not necessarily the  neighborhood sport where somebody can help you financially get to the  top.  You have a few pros now who are teaching at the community level,  but you actually need to have coaches with the knowledge of each level  on the ladder that you climb to get you to the next level and beyond,  and you might have to get a new coach… well, they cost money. Coaches  cost money, tennis courts aren’t cheap, and they’re not cheap to  maintain.  There are a lot of variables out here that have helped the  juniors and kids who have gravitated to tennis, but we have to find a  way, and it’s mostly financially, to keep them in tennis.    \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blacktennishalloffame.com\/feeds\/7344399570166858903\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blacktennishalloffame.com\/2021\/03\/womens-history-month-exclusive.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8123599335000350018\/posts\/default\/7344399570166858903"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8123599335000350018\/posts\/default\/7344399570166858903"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blacktennishalloffame.com\/2021\/03\/womens-history-month-exclusive.html","title":"WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH:  Exclusive Conversation With Ann Koger - The Life Experience Of An African-American Woman Who Would Not Be Denied"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Shelia"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00280487267612661372"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bQEE7-AF2xA\/XFORbDCAxJI\/AAAAAAAAcKI\/T17w1dWzS2shMJqL24nNCkpPsAnoKbwqACK4BGAYYCw\/s1600\/fash003.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iD-m71tVtvI\/YFqe83wjk8I\/AAAAAAAAenw\/8TyRDjvV_SE4N6jXB5uGmgnzPD35G4zhwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w1742-h1094-c\/Ann%2BKoger%2B3E.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123599335000350018.post-6193547032026930016"},"published":{"$t":"2021-03-02T01:05:00.007-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-16T21:15:46.694-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"BTHOF"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pioneer"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Player Contributor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Regional Legend"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Women's History Month"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH:  The Women of Black Tennis Hall of Fame"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; 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font-size: x-large;\"\u003EOra Washington, Pioneer\/Player\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EBonnie Logan, Player\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EZina Lynn Garrison, Player \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ECLASS OF 2010\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAnn Koger, Player\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003ELeslie Allen, Player \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ECLASS OF 2011\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EIsadore Channels (Izzy), Pioneer\/Player\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EFlora Lomax Bray, Pioneer\/Player\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003ELulu Ballard, Pioneer\/Player\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003ELori McNeil, Player\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ECLASS 2012\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EKatrina Adams, Player \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EMargaret \"Pete\" Peters and\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Matilda Roumania \"Repeat\" Peters,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Player\/Pioneers\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ECLASS OF 2013\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EVirginia Glass, Pioneer\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EBessie Stockard, Pioneer\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003ELucille Freeman, Pioneer\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ECLASS OF 2014\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EMary Etta Fine and Eva Belle Bracy, Pioneers\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ECLASS OF 2015\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAngela Buxton, Contributor\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ECLASS OF 2018\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003ECamille Riggs Mosley, Regional Legend\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;\"\u003ECora Masters Barry, Regional Legend\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ECLASS OF 2019\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #010000;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; 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Davis As A PTR ACE Hero!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RaAK-dQ0QMk\/YDsxcy--eEI\/AAAAAAAAelU\/1z61OI6Fd1IJMRcrzVSpcn7iAez35DK7ACLcBGAsYHQ\/s1080\/Bob%2BDavis%2BPTR%2BACE%2BHERO%2B2021.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1080\" data-original-width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RaAK-dQ0QMk\/YDsxcy--eEI\/AAAAAAAAelU\/1z61OI6Fd1IJMRcrzVSpcn7iAez35DK7ACLcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h400\/Bob%2BDavis%2BPTR%2BACE%2BHERO%2B2021.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a\" data-ad-comet-preview=\"message\" data-ad-preview=\"message\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EPTR is proud to present Bob Davis as a PTR ACE Hero!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ESome of Bob's Achievements:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m\" dir=\"auto\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EPresident \u0026amp; 2014 inductee in the Black Tennis Hall of Fame \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ENational Program Director of the Ashe-Bollettieri Program\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Hosted PTR ACE workshops\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ESupported several inner-city tennis initiatives including the Panda Foundation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blacktennishalloffame.com\/feeds\/6944127146175679014\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blacktennishalloffame.com\/2021\/02\/professional-tennis-registry-ptr-is.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8123599335000350018\/posts\/default\/6944127146175679014"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8123599335000350018\/posts\/default\/6944127146175679014"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blacktennishalloffame.com\/2021\/02\/professional-tennis-registry-ptr-is.html","title":"Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Is Proud To Present Black Tennis Hall of Fame President Robert \"Bob\" C. Davis As A PTR ACE Hero!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Shelia"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00280487267612661372"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bQEE7-AF2xA\/XFORbDCAxJI\/AAAAAAAAcKI\/T17w1dWzS2shMJqL24nNCkpPsAnoKbwqACK4BGAYYCw\/s1600\/fash003.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RaAK-dQ0QMk\/YDsxcy--eEI\/AAAAAAAAelU\/1z61OI6Fd1IJMRcrzVSpcn7iAez35DK7ACLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w400-h400-c\/Bob%2BDavis%2BPTR%2BACE%2BHERO%2B2021.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123599335000350018.post-1513762870044445203"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-21T03:00:00.009-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-21T03:29:32.004-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"BTHOF"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Class of 2021"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Colorado Tennis Association"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Donald Hunt"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Frank Adams"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Philadelphia Tribune"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sportsmen's Tennis \u0026 Enrichment Center"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USTA"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"THE PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE:  West Philadelphia Native Frank Adams To Be Inducted Into The Black Tennis Hall Of Fame"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ruihgENpsN8\/YDI3Rjq_9AI\/AAAAAAAAeks\/sOIfuDJt0jkuSi61aOaXjml8e1Zyf1stACLcBGAsYHQ\/s804\/Frank%2BAdams%2BPhily%2BTribune%2BDonald%2BHunt.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"603\" data-original-width=\"804\" height=\"1442\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ruihgENpsN8\/YDI3Rjq_9AI\/AAAAAAAAeks\/sOIfuDJt0jkuSi61aOaXjml8e1Zyf1stACLcBGAsYHQ\/w1464-h1442\/Frank%2BAdams%2BPhily%2BTribune%2BDonald%2BHunt.jpg\" width=\"1464\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003EWriter\/Credits:\u0026nbsp; Mr. Donald Hunt \/ dhunt@phillytrib.com\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EFrank Adams, who grew up playing tennis in West Philadelphia, will be inducted into the Black Tennis Hall of Fame. Adams will be enshrined as a regional legend at the annual induction ceremony for the Classes of 2020 and 2021 July 2-3. The ceremony will take place at the Sportsmen’s Tennis \u0026amp; Enrichment Center in Dorchester, Mass.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EAdams, who was the first African American President of the Colorado Tennis Association, and Intermountain Tennis Association USTA Section, paving the way for Colorado and section leaders. As chair of the Colorado and ITA Minority Participation Committee, he recruited and mentored African Americans to volunteer for the USTA Committees.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EAdams knows the value of getting volunteers involved in the game as well as playing tennis on the grassroots level. That’s here his career took off as a player.\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“I look at it as part of a journey that helped me along,” said Adams, a St. Joseph’s Prep alumnus. “I couldn’t have arrived at this point without all the mentors that helped me out from the times I first started playing tennis.\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“Bill Johnson in Philadelphia at Shepard Recreation Center [57th and Haverford Avenue] all the way through Allen Kiel and here in Colorado who helped me become president of the Intermountain Section, which is Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. It takes up five stats.\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“I lived in West Philly. The background of this was I grew up playing ping pong in the basement of some of my friends in West Philly. One summer I went away and came back at the end of the summer. The tennis courts had been built over at Haddington [now Shepard Recreation Center]. My friends were all playing and they invited me to play. I knew nothing about it. I went over and played with my friends. They left and never came back. I just stayed.”\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EAdams continued to work on his game. Through hard work, practice and good coaching he developed a great deal of interest in the sport. He read several books on tennis. He gained a strong appeal for tennis. Although he ran cross country, indoor and outdoor track at St. Joseph’s Prep, he really enjoyed playing tennis.\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“I just found people that would hit with me every day after school,” Adams said. “Every day I would go over there and knew nothing about what I was doing. I read every book that I could. I read every book at the Philadelphia central Library. Then, I taught myself how to play tennis.\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“Then, one summer about maybe nine months after I first started playing. I came over to the tennis courts and there was coach Bill Johnson. He was a legendary coach in Philadelphia who started many tennis careers for the youth of Philadelphia. Bill Johnson said this guy can play let him try out for the team. That started everything.\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ETwice a week, I would practice over at the tennis courts. In between that, I would spend literally hours from the time the sun came up until the sun went down. I would be on those courts playing with friends.”\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EAdams feels The National Junior Tennis League (NJTL) was a good springboard for many African American kids in Philly. The program created opportunities youngsters to compete in tennis in their own community.\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“I think the important thing was the NJTL,” Adams said. “The National Junior Tennis League started by Arthur Ashe and Charlie Pasarell and Sheridan Snyder. I think that was about ‘69 [1969]. Their mission was to take a country club sport and bring it to the streets.\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“That’s what they were trying to do and give us lessons and give us structure. The code of conduct was very important. It was one of the first things we learned. We played league matches once a week. Rec [Recreation] Centers in West Philly and North Philly that’s where my competition was. We really didn’t have tournament maybe one or two.”\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EAdams got involved with coaching at a young age. It was a great experience for him, which set a good foundation for his career down the road.\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;“I really started off my career teaching tennis than playing tennis and also communicating with other people and sharing ideas,” Adams said. “That was the most important thing. I coached track and field. I did coach at 18 during the Black Olympics. I coached the Philadelphia team in ping pong and in tennis at the 1976 Black Olympics.”\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EToday, Adams, 63, is married and resides in Aurora, CO.. He is the head tennis pro at the Highlands Ranch Community Association in Highlands Ranch, CO. In addition, he has a tennis program titled “Star Search”, which gives opportunities to minorities at a reduced cost in the Intermountain Zonal Team. He’s involved with wheelchair tennis the Professional Tennis Registry to help others with teaching the game.\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“For me the most important thing was I read every book on tennis in the Philadelphia Central Library,” Adams said. “I studied every tennis magazine I could get my hands on. Then, on the weekends I would watch PBS and Vic Braden, a very famous coach on TV. he had a show “Tennis for the Future.\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“I learned so much about teaching tennis and how to play tennis that it was basic for all my experiences in tennis. At an early age, as I was teaching myself how to play. 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Caldwell As He Is Announced As An Inductee Into The Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EswAk0X0t8k\/YC4WOBKb73I\/AAAAAAAAekI\/O3-qD-XudgM5Ie9ptS-daWAKVCihivEMgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s960\/Dale%2BCaldwell%2BJunior%2BTennis%2BFoundation.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"960\" data-original-width=\"789\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EswAk0X0t8k\/YC4WOBKb73I\/AAAAAAAAekI\/O3-qD-XudgM5Ie9ptS-daWAKVCihivEMgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w402-h438\/Dale%2BCaldwell%2BJunior%2BTennis%2BFoundation.jpg\" width=\"402\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ETennis Historian, founder of the Black Tennis Hall of Fame, creator and co-curator of the original \u003Cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/breakingbarriers.tennisfame.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBreaking the Barriers Exhibit\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, now hosted at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and former USTA Eastern President.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EDale Caldwell  is the first of this year's six inductees into the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.juniortennisfoundation.org\/copy-of-hall-of-fame\"\u003EEastern Tennis Hall of Fame\u003C\/a\u003E to be announced. A new inductee will be announced each week.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EA graduate of Princeton University, Dale has tirelessly promoted the history of Black Tennis in the US. He founded the Black Tennis Hall of Fame, and in 2006, he conceived and conjured \u003Cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/breakingbarriers.tennisfame.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBreaking the Barriers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E – currently on exhibition at the International Tennis Hall of Fame – honoring the \u003Cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.yourata.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAmerican Tennis Association\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E and the Black pioneers of tennis.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAlong with fellow Hall of Famer Nancy Gill McShea, Dale is the author of \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ETennis in New York, the History of the Most Influential Sport in the Most Influential City in the World.\u003C\/span\u003E He has served on the Board of Directors of the USTA and was the first Black president of USTA Eastern.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blacktennishalloffame.com\/feeds\/1179734830326458308\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blacktennishalloffame.com\/2021\/02\/black-tennis-hall-of-fame-congratulates.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8123599335000350018\/posts\/default\/1179734830326458308"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8123599335000350018\/posts\/default\/1179734830326458308"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blacktennishalloffame.com\/2021\/02\/black-tennis-hall-of-fame-congratulates.html","title":"Black Tennis Hall of Fame Congratulates Its Founder, Dr. Dale G. 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