Central Texas earns NJTL Chapter of the Year
January 15, 2012 01:04 PM
Sarah Pernell of the Central Texas Tennis Association based in Austin, Texas accepts the 2011 USTA NJTL of the Year for budgets of less than $50K. CTTA was one of three NJTL of the Year award winners at the Community Tennis Development Workshop held on Jan. 14 in New Orleans. - Photo by D. Hackett / USTA Texas
NEW ORLEANS, LA. - The USTA recognized the Central Texas Tennis Association (Austin, Texas) as one of its three National Junior Tennis & Learning of the Year Award winners for 2011. USTA recognizes NJTL programs that reflect the vision of its founder Arthur Ashe, Charlie Pasarell and Sheridan Snyder at is 2012 Awards Program held in New Orleans on Jan. 14 as part of the Community Tennis Development Workshop.
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National Junior Tennis & Learning (NJTL) Chapters of the Year Awards is bestowed upon chapters and programs at three different budget levels to reward those organizations that are able to more with less. Founded in 1969 by Ashe, Pasarell and Snyder, the program as Ashe envisioned NJTL as "a way to gain and hold the attention of young people in the inner cities and their poor environments so that we can teach them about matters more important than tennis."
Since its inception, NJTL has grown to more than 550 chapters across the country, serving more than 225,000 youth each year, making it one of the USTA's largest community - based offerings.
More information can be found about the Central Texas Tennis Association at
www.cttatennis.org/.