Texas Tech University Athletics
Groce Receives USTA/ITA Campus Recreation Award
November 26, 2007 | Women's Tennis
Nov. 26, 2007
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech women's tennis Head Coach Cari Groce was recognized by the United States Tennis Association and Intercollegiate Tennis Association as the recipient of the their annual Campus Recreation Award for the Texas section. This is the third honor for Groce by the USTA/ITA for the women's tennis team's contributions to the local community.
The Campus Recreation Award honors an ITA coach who has done an outstanding job implementing the USTA's Tennis on Campus program, or similar recreational tennis programs, in an effort to grow tennis participation within the campus community.
In addition to hosting local tennis clinics with Iles Elementary, Groce kicked off her Game, Set, Match Reading Program this fall to help promote excellence in the classroom and character-building through competition. Groce was also selected as a keynote speaker for the fourth consecutive year at the Texas Tennis Coaches Association's annual banquet, and will be doing on-court presentations with strength and conditioning Coach Katie Munger.
This year's national winners were selected from a group of USTA Sectional winners determined this fall. This awards program, which began in 2003, was open to over 2,000 ITA head and assistant coaches at the NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA and Junior/Community College levels.
"The USTA is proud to be associated with these very special coaches," says Glenn Arrington, USTA National Manager, Collegiate Tennis. "We recognize the many challenges varsity tennis coaches face and tip our hat to those that go above and beyond the call of duty like this year's winners have. The extra efforts coaches put into their campus and community activities pay dividends for everyone involved in and around the sport of tennis."
