Carl Brodnax

Tennis Coach

“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”

- Arthur Ashe

Samantha Hayes

Operations Manager/Development Associate

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

                                                 -Howard Thurman

betsy mcneil

Executive Director

"We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jayanne Perkins

Youth Development Specialist

(Americorps Up2Us Coach)

"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love"

                                                     - Maya Angelou

Ritu Duenwald

Accounting Manager

“The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.”

- Maya Angelou

David Kimani

Senior Director of Tennis

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit”

– Ancient Greek proverb

Kristi Miller

Director of Education

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”

- Paulo Coelho

Jonathyn Young

Program Coordinator/Coach

“Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

- Marv Levy