ITA All-Stars and Ashe Award Winners Enjoy U.S. Open Festivities

The 2007 Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Star Team and Arthur Ashe Jr. Leadership and Sportsmanship National Award winners at the U.S. Open Arthur Ashe Kids' Day with Mayor David Dinkins, ITA Executive Director David Benjamin, and USTA President Jane Brown Grimes.

The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) and USTA rewarded the 2007 ITA All-Star Team and ITA/Arthur Ashe Jr. Leadership and Sportsmanship Award winners with a weekend in New York and a special visit to the U.S. Open during Arthur Ashe Kids' Day. The ITA All-Star Team is composed of the nation's top ranked NCAA Divisions, I, II and III tennis players along with the winners of the 2006 ITA Indoor Championships and the 2007 NCAA Championships. The ITA/Arthur Ashe, Jr. National Leadership and Sportsmanship Award winners are men's and women's college players who, in addition to displaying leadership and sportsmanship, excel in academic, extracurricular and tennis pursuits.

On August 25 the student-athletes enjoyed a luncheon in their honor at the President's Suite at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center with USTA President Jane Brown Grimes, ITA Executive Director David Benjamin and Mayor David Dinkins presenting awards. They also got an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the tennis complex and there was an additional reception that night in New York City.

The 2007 women's ITA All-Stars are: Sara Andundsen of North Carolina, Liz Bondi of DePauw, Ana Cetnik of TCU, Cohen of Miami, Megan Falcon of LSU, Jenna Long of North Carolina, Megan Moulton-Levy of William & Mary, Lindsey Nelson of USC, Jelena Pandzik of Fresno Pacific, Kasia Siwosz of Cowley County, Iuliia Stupak of Armstrong Atlantic State, Anna Sydorska of TCU and Katarina Zoricic of William & Mary.

The 2007 ITA men's All-Stars are: Marco Born of Middle Tennessee, Lorenzo Cava of Lynn, Gwen Corchers of Laredo, Somdev Devvarman of Virginia, Luis Flores of Georgia, Mislav Hizak of Embry-Riddle, Treat Huey of Virginia, Isner of Georgia, Ben Kohlloeffel of UCLA, Matt Seeberger of UC Santa Cruz and Andreas Siljestrom of Middle Tennessee.

The ITA/Arthur Ashe Jr. Leadership and Sportsmanship Award winners are: Danny Bryan of LSU, Thomas Dohlman of MIT, Lindsey Fischer of Indianapolis, Hizak from Embry-Riddle, Jennifer Le of Oklahoma Christian, Moulton-Levy of William & Mary, Katy Nethery of San Diego City College, Dustin Phillips of Tyler Junior College, Daniel Pollock of Hawaii-Hilo, Laura Stein of Amherst, Maya Vankineni of Oxford College of Emory and Clint Walder of Riverside Community College.

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Education Related Arthur Ashe Legacy Resources

Arthur Ashe Elementary School
Chicago, IL
Located in a mostly Black neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, this elementary school educates over 700 students.

Arthur Ashe Jr. Elementary School
Richmond, VA
http://www.henrico.k12.va.us/es/arthurashe/
A Henrico County Public School located in Richmond, Virginia, Arthur Ashe Elementary has been serving pre-school through 5th graders since 1994.

Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library
Washington, D.C.
http://www.transafricaforum.org/
index.php?page_id=8
The Foreign Policy Library, run by TransAfrica Forum, is a library oriented toward topics relating to Africa and the Caribbean. It is particularly focused on collecting works by authors of African descent and includes many works not readily available elsewhere. Arthur Ashe was a board member of TransAfrica forum and his library now holds more than 10,000 volumes.

P.S. 161, Arthur Ashe School
Queens, NY
http://schools.nyc.gov/OurSchools/Region3/Q161/
default.htm?searchType=school
A New York City Public School under the Department of Education, P.S. 161 is located in Jamaica, Queens.

Arthur Ashe Professorship at Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/home.asp
Created in 1995, this professorship was intended to further the knowledge and practice of medicine while facilitating greater diversity among the faculty of healthcare practitioners.

Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Award
Fairfax, VA
http://www.diverseeducation.com/
ArthurAsheHome.asp
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education has been issuing this award every year since 1995 to one male and one female college student. These students must be athletes who not only excel in sport, but also as students and in campus or community activities. By recognizing students for their academic, athletic and activist commitment the award embodies Arthur's well-rounded ideals.

Education Related Resources

Academic Homepage for High School Students
http://highschoolace.com/ace/ace.cfm
Has general resources on major school topics such as "English,"

Partnership for Reading
http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/
U.S. Department of Education and National Institute for Child Health and Human Development partnership with National Institute for Literacy to provide research about learning to read, information to aid in reading instruction, etc.

United Negro College Fund
http://www.uncf.org/

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

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