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Seidenkranz adopts tennis en route to the Transplant Games in San Diego
It doesn’t matter much that Kelly Seidenkranz has never played in a tennis tournament before. When she takes to the courts to compete in the annual 2022 Donate Life Transplant Games in San Diego, what matters more is that Seidenkranz will be playing at all. The 51-year-old from Canyon Country is an example of a…
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This is… University of San Diego’s Nadia Abdala
After eight years as an Assistant Coach at the University of San Diego, Nadia Abdala was named Head Coach of the Toreros in June 2022. The Mexico City native started her career at age four, influenced by her mother who was a huge tennis fan. Despite growing up in soccer crazy Mexico, Nadia defied the…
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This is… San Diego’s Jeffrey Lee
Jeffrey Lee of San Diego County had a twenty-year gap between tennis matches. Having played the sport as a hobby with his wife many years ago, he was unable to pick it up regularly due to his condition of Osteogenesis Imperfecta (O.I.) Many years later, as his condition worsened and Lee made the decision to…
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USTA SoCal echoes messages of LA84 Foundation’s Play Equity Summit
The LA84 Foundation held its annual Play Equity Summit this summer in Los Angeles, welcoming an array of guests including Olympic and professional athletes who helped to amplify the organization’s underlying message of increasing awareness of the power of sport, especially for children from underprivileged and minority backgrounds and neighborhoods in LA. A longtime strategic…
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Fourth of July Drop In
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USTA Foundation supports SoCal NJTL chapters with grant awards
The USTA Foundation, the charitable arm of the United States Tennis Association, has awarded grants totaling nearly $3 million to 155 National Junior Tennis & Learning chapters (NJTL) nationwide, including 14 programs located right here in Southern California. The grants are designated to support under-resourced youth through tennis and education programs designed to improve health,…
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State grant a game-changer for low income communities
Later this year, the trifecta of USTA Southern California, the LA84 Foundation, and the LA City Department of Parks & Recreation will launch a collaboration with the State of California to implement the California Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant, a large step toward increasing access to sports for children of lower income backgrounds. Andy Schwich…
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Fresh off Sectional win, Rivera has greater things in mind
There was never a moment during Hudson Rivera’s recent long three-set quarterfinal match against August Holmgren that he didn’t feel like he had a chance to upset one of the best players in all of college tennis. Just days after winning his first ATP ranking points and two rounds of singles as a wild-card entry…
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USC Trojans Dostanic and Cayetano honored as part of the 2022 USTA Collegiate Summer Team
On June 23rd, 2022, the USTA announced the five male and five female collegiate tennis players that will make up the 2022 Collegiate Summer Team, including Southern California’s own Irvine’s Stefan Dostanic and Eryn Cayetano of Long Beach. Both Dostanic and Cayetano are rising seniors at the University of Southern California and have achieved considerable…
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SoCal Pro Circuit Jack Kramer Club
South Bay’s Brandon Holt & Zachary Svajda Open With First-Round Wins at Kramer Club SoCal Pro Circuit Event June 28, 2022 One was a highly decorated college All-American and former No. 1 player for the USC Trojans, while the other won the USTA Kalamazoo Hardcourt Junior Nationals twice and won a round in the main…