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VegasTennis.com's Marty Hennessy Junior Tennis Foundation has hired a new Executive Director, Hilliary Heard. The Foundation, a USTA NJTL non profit 501(c)3 Organization, was created to inspire children through tennis, mentoring and education. The Foundation was started in 2002 by Ryan Wolfington and Marty Hennessy with the help of entertainment legend Tony Bennett and well known tennis "dad" and coach Mike Agassi. Since it's inception the Foundation has raised over a million dollars to help children get "Off the streets, onto the courts and into the class room."
"For two years we searched for a very special, unique person to run our Foundation. It's like handing your children over to someone else and you have to make sure they have the same passion, desire and commitment that you have," explained it's founder Ryan Wolfington. "Our board was very impressed with Miss Heard's commitment to take a far less salary, come across the country and most of all she was very genuine in her desire to improve herself, our programs and the children we serve."
Miss Heard will work with the Foundation board to run our two flagship fundraisers; The Nevada Tennis Hall of Fame and Tony Bennett Celebrity Gala, as well as run and oversee our junior tennis, mentoring and education programs day to day. These programs include an after school program, an elite training Academy, a travel team, a tutoring program, SAT and Life Skills course (created by Hilliary this year), national , district, sectional and novice tournaments, an Elite junior league, and a world class East Coast Leadership Tour that takes the children to 15 cities to see 8 colleges, hear daily inspirational speakers including CEO's , Senators and past Presidents of the United States, from Boston to Washington D.C. while playing at a different Country Club each day. For more information about VegasTennis.com's Marty Hennessy Junior Tennis Foundation go to www.lasvegastennis.com
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Stan and Cheryl Tomchin residents of the Stirling club, active tennis players and huge supporters of Vegastenniscom's Marty Henenssy Jr. Tennis foundation sponsored 11 children on an extraordinary venture to Santa Barbara, CA. The foundation has an elite group of children that maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher, have a positive attitude, are ranked in the state and nationally in tennis and demonstrate leadership qualities to peers their age and younger. The children in this group are offered trips like this for their dedication and hard work all year. "Being chosen for this trip was a big deal. We cancelled Facebook and text messaging to show that we are trying to better ourselves, use our time wisely and choose to be better than mediocre," said Kimberly Yee.
The children were exposed to a higher level of education by experiencing historical sites, community arts, fun adventures, positive social life outings and peaceful meditation.
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VegasTennis.com's Marty Hennessy Jr. tennis Foundation hosts and sponsors a tennis ball and awards banquet every year to bring the whole community together to celebrate a child's quest for excellence. This ball includes entertainment, a formal sit down dinner, awards, guest speakers and dancing.
USTA-Nevada is also included with their Jr. Awards banquet teamed up the Indian Open jr tournament party to put together an end of year bash to celebrate the graduating tennis class, this years excellence award winners and special category awards for USTA-Nevada juniors.
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By Sarah Lucas
Las Vegas Junior tennis players took a swing in this year’s Easter Bowl Spring Championships, as well as the Easter Bowl ITF both in Rancho Mirage, California. Las Vegas’ own Kimberly Yee (Easter Bowl Finalist), and Evan Song (Easter Bowl ITF’s Championships semi’s-finalist) both dominated in this years’ Easter Bowl USTA National Spring Championship, and ITF Championship draws.
Entering the Easter Bowl Spring Championships in Rancho Mirage, California as the fourth seed, Kimberly Yee reached the finals by winning a total of 6 matches playing in the Girls 14’s. Kimberly, lost only to Gabrielle F. Andrews in the finals of the tournament with a tight score of 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Kimberly defeated a number of Girls 14’s competitors in the top 25.
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Bryan Brothers and Grammy nominated artist, Adriana Lucia Perform Live
Miami-March 25, 2010-The Bryan Brothers, the #1 ranked tennis team in the world hosted a celebrity-filled exclusive launch party on Wednesday, March 24th to debut the new "TENNIS App," the latest application for everything tennis available for mobile phones.
The Bryan Brothers were joined by a host of friends and celebrity guests at the private ocean front residence of Sean and Ana Wolfington on Key Biscayne, Florida, in celebration of the anticipated release of this ground breaking mobile technology in what many are calling "the new internet." Guests included top 10 ATP ranked men's players in the world Robin Soderling and Fernando Verdasco, WTA #2 ranked woman in the world Caroline Wazniaki and top 50 ranked, up and coming American player John Isner.
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Each year we take the children in the foundation, alumni from the foundation in college and some children from the community to play tennis in Palm Springs right before the winter holiday. This is often a reflective time and we have a tradition if sitting around the fire pit and asking the children important, meaningful questions about their highs and lows for the year and desired areas for improvement. Here are some of their answers.
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