A well-known US Open face has been elected USTA President.
The USTA as we speak introduced its new slate of Board of Directors, together with the election of Dr. Brian Hainline as USTA Chairman of the Board and President.
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The new Board has been elected to a two-year time period that begins on January 1, 2023.
The 2023-2024 USTA Board of Directors:
Dr. Brian Hainline of the USTA Midwest Section has been elected to function the USTA Chairman of the Board and President. This is his fifth time period on the USTA Board of Directors, the place he principally not too long ago served because the First Vice President through the 2021-2022 time period. Hainline beforehand served on the USTA Board of Directors as Director at Large in 2007-08, the place he was Board Liaison to the Community Tennis Council. He returned to function Director at Large in 2017-18, the place he was Board Liaison to the Player Development Council; as Vice President in 2019-20, the place he was Vice Chair of the Budget Committee and Board Liaison to the Sectional Associations, and as First Vice President in 2021-22.
Hainline performed No. 1 singles and doubles in his senior yr on the University of Notre Dame, the place he graduated Phi Beta Kappa (philosophy) earlier than occurring to earn his M.D. on the University of Chicago and his neurology specialty at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Hainline was a founding member of the USTA Sport Science Committee and has been a member of the International Tennis Federation Sport Science and Medicine Commission since 1993, serving as chair since 2003.
He was the Chief Medical Officer of the US Open Tennis Championships for 16 years and held the identical title for the USTA for 4 years. Currently, Hainline is the NCAA Senior Vice President, Sport Science Institute and Chief Medical Officer. He is the primary individual to carry this title within the historical past of the NCAA. Hainline is an achieved creator, having authored/edited 9 books (together with Positioning Youth Tennis for Success) in addition to quite a few chapters and peer-reviewed articles. He is actively concerned as a volunteer in sports activities medication organizations, having served as co-chair of the 2016 International Olympic Committee Consensus Meeting on Pain Management in Elite Athletes, and was additionally co-chair of the IOC Consensus Meeting on Mental Health in Elite Athletes. Hainline is also a member of the Expert Panel on the 2022 sixth International Consensus Meeting on Concussion in Sport, and served as chair of the first-ever worldwide sport-specific psychological well being summit (Mental Health in Tennis Summit) in 2022.
Hainline is a member of the WTA Tour Player Development Advisory Panel, is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Academy of Neurology, and is Clinical Professor of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine and NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Brian Vahaly of the USTA Mid-Atlantic Section has been elected to function First Vice President on the USTA Board of Directors. Vahaly has served 4 non-consecutive phrases on the USTA Board, having most not too long ago served as Secretary-Treasurer and Chair of the Budget Committee. Vahaly beforehand served as Chair of the Audit Committee, and as a member of the Investment Committee. He additionally was the Board Liaison on each the Player Development and Youth Tennis Councils. Vahaly performed professionally for seven years, and peaked at a career-best No. 64 on the earth in 2003. He was the one male school graduate within the Top 100 rankings throughout that point, and the one LGBTQ male athlete to return out having performed on the ATP Tour. Vahaly graduated an Academic All-American from the University of Virginia with a double main in finance and business administration, and is a three-time All-American, having reached the NCAA singles remaining in 2001. As a junior participant, he gained the Easter Bowl. After retiring from skilled tennis, Vahaly went on to a profession in personal fairness and enterprise capital, serving because the Chief Operating Officer at Venturehouse Group and NextGen Venture Partners in addition to the CFO of Solidcore. Vahaly is at present the CEO of YouFit Gyms.
Laura F. Canfield of the USTA Middle States Section has been elected to serve her fourth time period on the USTA Board of Directors, her third as Vice President. During her most up-to-date time period, Canfield served as Board Liaison to the Section Presidents and Delegates and on quite a few Task Forces, together with Pickleball (chair), USTA National and USTA Sectional Association Bi-lateral Communication and Transparency (co-chair), Social Justice, Sectional/National Budget subcommittee, Shared Services, Governance, and several other others. Canfield has been lively within the tennis {industry} for greater than 40 years in a variety of areas, together with serving 12 years as govt director of the USTA Middle States Sectional Association; particular liaison to the USTA President; particular initiatives coordinator for the USTA; interim govt director with the USTA Eastern, USTA Mid-Atlantic, and USTA Intermountain Sectional Associations. Her volunteer service contains two phrases on the USTA Nominating Committee, which Canfield chaired from 2013 to 2014, and eight years on the Board of Directors of USTA Middle States Sectional Association. She was inducted into the USTA Middle States Hall of Fame in 2012. Canfield is co-founder and present program director of the Bucks County Tennis Association, which supplies reasonably priced high quality tennis applications to over two dozen parks and recreation companies and colleges all through Bucks County, Pa., servicing greater than 2,000 members yearly. Canfield is a previous president of the Princeton Tennis Program, was a long-term board member of the Eastern Sectional Association’s Junior Tennis Foundation, and served for greater than six years on the Northampton Township (Pa.) Parks and Recreation Board (chair 2016–2017).
Kathleen Francis of the USTA Eastern Section has been elected to function a Vice President on the USTA Board of Directors. Francis has greater than 30 years of expertise main the event and implementation of high-impact advertising and youth improvement applications. Her skilled profession spans company, skilled sports activities league, venue, and not-for-profit sectors. Francis has created and executed distinctive, multi-faceted sports activities advertising and inclusion methods for organizations together with Major League Baseball, the Meadowlands Sports Complex and the USTA, the place she served as Managing Director, Community Tennis Marketing and Development. Currently, she is President of Oasis Sports Ventures, a consulting and grass-roots improvement company. She is also Chair and President of Women in Sports and Events, a global group centered on accelerating the development of ladies within the business of sports activities. She served two phrases on the USTA Nominating Committee. This is her second time period on the USTA Board. Francis holds a BA from Xavier University of Louisiana and a MBA from Rutgers University, Graduate School of Management.
J. Christopher Lewis of the USTA Southern California Section (SCTA) has been elected to function Secretary-Treasurer on the USTA Board of Directors. Lewis at present is serving his first time period as a Director at Large of the USTA. Previously, he served two phrases because the President of the SCTA. At the University of Southern California, he earned each an undergraduate diploma in Finance and Accounting and a grasp’s diploma in Business Administration. As an undergraduate at USC he was a three-time tennis All-American, was a member of the 1976 group which gained the NCAA Team Championship and gained the NCAA doubles title in 1977. At USC he additionally obtained an NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship which acknowledges student-athletes who excel in each athletics and lecturers. In 1982 Lewis joined RLH Equity Partners, a non-public funding agency which companions with excessive progress middle-market service corporations. He now serves because the agency’s chairman.
Jeffrey M. Baill of the USTA Northern Section has been elected to serve his fourth time period as Director at Large on the USTA Board of Directors. Last time period, he served because the Board Liaison to the Adult Tennis Leadership Council, Chair of the Audit Committee, and in addition chaired a Social Justice Task Force. He was beforehand a member of the Strategic and Creative Planning Committee. Baill has served in lots of roles as a USTA nationwide volunteer, together with two phrases on the Learning and Leadership Development Committee, the place he led subcommittees in growing finest practices for volunteers and board orientation procedures for the USTA Sectional Association. He has been a member of a number of governance-related job forces and served a time period on the USTA Nominating Committee. He additionally was chair of the President’s Committee, a member of the Delegates Committee and vice chair of the Grievance Committee. He was the inaugural recipient of the USTA Volunteer Exceptional Service Award in 2016. In the USTA Northern Sectional Association, Baill has served as board member, Vice President, President and Delegate. He additionally served as the primary normal counsel for USTA Northern. Baill is a accomplice on the Yost & Baill legislation agency in Minneapolis, the place he has practiced for the final 40 years. He is at present the Past President of the Hennepin County Bar Association Board of Directors. He has been named a “Super Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters publications and is named one of many main authorities on insurance coverage subrogation. He was designated lead subrogation counsel on the I-35W Bridge Collapse case by the District Court in Minnesota and has been concerned in a number of different well-known nationwide legislation fits involving disasters. He is also licensed as a skilled mediator and arbitrator. Baill has a protracted historical past of involvement on not-for-profit boards. He has served as president of 4 separate boards of administrators and was the founding father of the National Association of Subrogation Professionals, a global commerce affiliation with greater than 3,000 members.
Violet Clark of the USTA Midwest Section has been elected to function a Director at Large on the USTA Board of Directors. Clark has served on the USTA Board of Directors for 2 phrases and has volunteered with USTA National on a number of committees together with the Collegiate Committee, Junior Competition Committee, 10 and Under Tennis Committee, Community Tennis Association Committee, and Strategic and Creative Planning Committee. She served with the USTA Midwest Sectional Association from 2007 till the current, together with as Sectional Association President. In addition, throughout that point, she served on many committees of USTA Midwest. Since 2007, Clark has served on the Board of the USTA Midwest Tennis and Education Foundation, together with as Vice President. Clark served on the Chicago District Tennis Association Board from 1997 till 2001, and was its first African-American President. Clark additionally served on the Chicago Tennis Patron’s Board, together with as its President from 2002 till 2012. She was inducted into the CDTA Hall of Fame in 2018. Clark graduated with a B.A. from Brown University and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. She is at present Of Counsel at Laner Muchin, Ltd., representing administration in employment legislation and labor relations issues earlier than the EEOC, the Illinois Human Rights Commission, state and federal courts; wage and hour issues earlier than the Illinois and United States Departments of Labor; affirmative motion issues; in addition to collective bargaining negotiations.
Maggie Chan Jones of the USTA New England Sectionhas been elected to serve her first two-year time period as Director at Large on the USTA Board of Directors. Chan Jonesis a acknowledged govt in business transformation, advertising, and ESG. She has served on the boards of worldwide expertise leaders, together with Open Systems, an EQT Partners firm, as an advisory board member and Sustainability Champion; and most not too long ago at Avast, a UK FTSE 100 firm which merged with NortonLifeLock, as a board director, Chair of Security & Privacy Committee, member of Nomination and Audit & Risk Committees. Long an influential business advocate of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), Chan Jones based Tenshey, Inc. in 2018 and at present serves as CEO. Through Tenshey, Chan Jones focuses on elevating extra girls and underrepresented leaders into management roles. Tenshey is a recipient of Inc. Magazine’s 2021 Best in Business award, and 2020 Innovations in Diversity Award by Diversity Journal. Prior to founding Tenshey, Chan Jones was the primary lady to turn into world chief advertising officer (CMO) at SAP, the world’s largest enterprise software software program supplier, the place she led the worldwide model transformation of SAP to turning into the world’s twenty first most useful model. A highly-collaborative chief, she served as an govt sponsor for D&I and as a member of the SAP Innovation Roundtable. Before that, Chan Jones served because the inaugural North America CMO at Level 3 Communications. Frequently acknowledged as a thought-leader, she was a recipient of {industry} awards together with Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business (2021), Women of the Decade in Marketing, Branding and Communication (2018); Forbes World’s Most Influential CMOs (2017); Woman of the Year (2014). Chan Jones earned her undergraduate diploma in business administration from Binghamton University, holds a MasterofBusiness Administration (MBA) diploma from Cornell University, and obtained The Corporate Director Certificate from Harvard Business School.
William (Bill) McGugin of the USTA Southern Section has been elected to serve his first two-year time period as Director at Large on the USTA Board of Directors. McGugin is President and CEO of Iroquois Capital Group, Inc (ICG), a non-public fairness agency based mostly in Nashville, Tenn. He can be Chairman/President/CEO of REIT Investment Group, LLC (RIG), a portfolio firm of ICG which McGugin based in 2006. McGugin has served on quite a few firm, faculty, and non-profit boards together with Catholic Charities, Dismas House, and Montgomery Bell Academy Alumni Board. Prior to founding RIG/ICG, McGugin was beforehand with Covenant Capital Group, an actual property personal fairness agency based mostly in Nashville. He holds his Series 7, Series 24, Series 27, Series 63 and Series 79 licenses. In addition to his business profession, McGugin is an lively volunteer for tennis, at present serving as USTA Council Chair – Competitive Pathway and USTA Southern Vice President. McGugin additionally served as President of USTA-Tennessee (2016-2017) and has served on a number of USTA Tennessee, Southern, and National committees. In addition to his USTA service, from 2019-2021 McGugin served as a Board Member of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). McGugin graduated from Vanderbilt University (BA in 2000 and M.Ed in 2003) whereas enjoying 4 years on the varsity tennis group. He stays an lively grownup competitor having gained a number of USTA gold balls over the previous 10 years.
Emily S. Schaefer of the USTA Texas Section has been elected to serve her second time period as a Director at Large on the USTA Board of Directors. Schaefer has been an lively USTA volunteer for greater than 20 years, serving on the native, part and nationwide stage in varied capacities. She served as USTA Texas President, then Delegate, and continues to take part as a part of the USTA Texas Management Committee. In September 2021, Schaefer was named Executive Director of the Houston Tennis Association (HTA), a big umbrella Community Tennis Association (CTA) serving the Houston space. Founded in 1952, HTA supplies leagues, tournaments, outreach applications, and scholarships. From 1999-2021, Schaefer served because the Director of Tennis for the City of Houston Parks and Recreation Department, overseeing three municipal tennis facilities and managing a big, various National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) chapter. Prior to assuming that place, Schaefer performed and coached tennis at each stage—junior, collegiate, skilled, grownup and senior. Once a nationally-ranked junior, Schaefer performed 4 years at Princeton University the place she earned a bachelor’s diploma. After school, she started her profession as a instructing skilled at personal tennis golf equipment and coached at Rice University, earlier than shifting to public parks 10 years later and is now the ED for HTA. Schaefer, an Eve Kraft USTA Community Service Award winner, earned the Gold Slam Award in 2008, when she teamed along with her mom, Bambi Schuette, to seize all 4 USTA National Championships (clay, grass, exhausting and indoor) in Super Senior Mother-Daughter doubles. Schaefer’s different awards and accolades embrace the USPTA Industry Excellence Award, USTA Texas W.T. Caswell Service Award, and the institution of the Emily Schaefer Sportsmanship Award (given yearly to an excellent women’ 12 participant in Texas).
Bobby Sharma of the USTA Eastern Section has been elected to serve his first two-year time period as Director at Large on the USTA Board of Directors. Sharma is a non-public fairness investor, and a sports activities, media, & leisure {industry} chief, with a world track-record of accomplishment throughout finance, legislation, technique, administration, and operations. He is at present Chairman of Blue Devil Holdings, and Special Adviser to the famend Sports & Entertainment Group on the legislation agency Foley & Lardner LLP. Sharma was beforehand a Partner at personal fairness agency GACP Sports, the place he served as Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of portfolio firm Soccerex, the world’s largest organizer of European soccer {industry} conferences. Prior to that, he was Co-Founder & Managing Partner of esports industry-leading advisory agency Electronic Sports Group, and Senior Vice President, Global Head of Basketball & Strategic Initiatives at IMG, the place Sharma led the expansion of a spread of companies worldwide, together with the administration of worldwide sports activities media rights, and the creation, improvement, and oversight of basketball, soccer, and cricket properties – from grassroots applications and academies, to nationwide groups {and professional} leagues – with a deal with main rising markets. Prior to that, Sharma was the Vice President & General Counsel of the NBA Development League for almost a decade, serving to create and function the National Basketball Association’s first minor league. He additionally led the creation of the NBA’s first worldwide league consulting business. Sharma additionally beforehand practiced legislation at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and served on the presidential marketing campaign employees of the previous U.S. Senator and Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Bradley. He is a graduate of Duke University, Duke Law School, and the Harvard Business School govt program on the Business of Entertainment, Media & Sports. Sharma was named one of many “25 Most Influential South Asian Executives in the Media & Entertainment Industry” by Korn Ferry in 2009, one of many “Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business” by the Asian American Business Development Center in June 2014, and a “Sports & Entertainment Industry Power Player” by the Sports Business Journal in January 2021.
Elite Athletes
Liezel H. Huber of the USTA Middle States Section has been elected to serve her fourth time period as an Elite Athlete on the USTA Board of Directors. During her first time period, she was Board Liaison to the Professional Tennis Council. She is the chair of the USTA Athlete Advisory Council (AAC) and is serving a four-year time period on the USOPC because the USTA’s Athlete Advisory Representative. During a 24-year profession in skilled tennis, Huber was the No. 1-ranked WTA doubles participant for 199 weeks and the year-end No. 1 girls’s doubles participant thrice. She gained 53 WTA doubles titles, together with three WTA Finals year-end championships, seven Grand Slam girls’s doubles crowns (three on the US Open; two at Wimbledon, and one every on the Australian Open and Roland Garros) and two Grand Slam blended doubles titles (one every on the US Open and Roland Garros). She competed for the South African Fed Cup (now Billie Jean King Cup) group between 1998 and 2003 and, after turning into a U.S. citizen in 2007, performed for the U.S. Fed Cup group for six consecutive years, serving to the United States to the finals in 2009 and 2010. She was a member of the U.S. Olympic group in 2008 and 2012. Huber, a member of the WTA Player Council from 2006 to 2014, introduced her retirement from skilled tennis and performed her final match on the 2017 US Open. Huber is a PTR-certified skilled and proprietor of Huber Tennis Ranch within the Houston space. She was the Tennis Director on the Club of Houston Oaks previous to shifting to New York to turn into Executive Tennis Director at Cary Leeds Tennis Center for NYJTL. Huber is the Director of Racquets and Sports at Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware.
Vania King of the USTA Southern California Section has been elected to serve a second time period as an Elite Athlete on the USTA Board of Directors. She works because the Community Development Ambassador for WTA Charities, the philanthropic arm of the WTA whose mission includes serving to to develop and handle neighborhood outreach applications and campaigns, facilitating accomplice relationships, rising participant engagement, and educating members. During her skilled profession, King reached profession highs of No. 3 in doubles and No. 50 in singles. She is a two- time Grand Slam doubles champion (US Open and Wimbledon 2010), and gained one WTA singles title, was thrice a singles finalist. King additionally gained 15 WTA doubles titles. King is an eight-time member of the U.S. Fed Cup Team. She served as a consultant on the WTA Player Council from 2010-2012, representing the 21-plus rating group. She is a WTBA Pension Committee Representative, from 2010 to current, which oversees the pension plans of all former and present WTA gamers.
Megan Moulton-Levy of the USTA Mid-Atlantic Section has been elected to serve a second time period as an Elite Athlete on the USTA Board of Directors. She beforehand served one time period on the National Junior Competition Committee. After graduating from the College of William & Mary, the place she holds the report for essentially the most mixed wins in singles and doubles, Moulton-Levy competed on the WTA Tour from 2008-2016. She captured the WTA Monterrey doubles championship in 2014 along with profitable 10 ITF doubles titles. She additionally attained a career-high world singles rating of No. 237 and earned one ITF singles title. Prior to turning skilled, Moulton-Levy earned a B.A. in Sociology from William & Mary in 2007 and accomplished a stellar collegiate profession, rising to the No. 1 NCAA rating in doubles and No. 7 in singles. The six-time All-American reached the semifinal spherical of the 2006 NCAA Singles Championship and the ultimate spherical of the 2007 NCAA Doubles Championship. Moulton-Levy additionally was a two-time recipient of the National ITA/Arthur Ashe, Jr. Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship. Moulton-Levy has been the General Manager of Player Development at Junior Tennis Champion Center in College Park, Maryland since September 2019. She joined JTCC in January 2016 as a Senior Coach, and assumed the Director of Mentoring function in January 2018 earlier than being promoted to her present function.
Immediate Past President
Michael J. McNulty III of the USTA Southern Section will function Immediate Past President on the USTA Board of Directors. McNulty is at present finishing his two-year time period as President, and fourth consecutive two-year time period on the USTA Board of Directors. He is also serving his second consecutive time period on the Strategic and Creative Planning Committee, the place he at present serves as Chair. He serves as Board Liaison to the Adult Tennis Leadership Council and can be a member of the Budget Committee, International Tennis Committee, and the ITF Constitution Committee. He served two consecutive phrases on the Nominating Committee and the Constitution and Rules Committee, the place he served as Vice Chair. McNulty has a protracted historical past of volunteerism on the Section and District ranges. He served as President, First Vice President, Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the USTA Southern, and as USTA Southern’s Delegate to the USTA. He served three consecutive phrases as Chair of the Constitution and Rules Committee, Chair of the Nominating Committee and Board Liaison to a number of Committees. He is former Tournament Director of the BB&T Atlanta Open. He is a recipient of the USTA Southern Jacobs Bowl, the best volunteer service award given by USTA Southern. He is a member of the USTA Southern Tennis Hall of Fame. McNulty was a longtime USTA Louisiana volunteer the place he served as President. He is a member of the Louisiana Tennis Hall of Fame and recipient of the President’s Award. McNulty was a accomplice with the legislation agency of Plauche Smith & Nieset, LLC, and has not too long ago taken Of Counsel standing.
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