When Althea Gibson Visited Sportsmen’s…
2 years ago, I had the privilege of traveling to Harlem to speak on behalf of the American Tennis Association. The occasion was the renaming of West 143rd Street [...]
Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center Receives $2 Million Gift From the Yield Giving Open Call
MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving announced Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center as one of the Yield Giving Open Call’s awardees working with people and in places experiencing the greatest need [...]
USTA NEW ENGLAND Player Profile: Halina Nguyen
Halina Nguyen is taking it all in stride. Selected to play at Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center’s second annual UTR College Showcase, the sophomore from Boston Latin School got a [...]
Paving the Way Forward: Honoring Black Changemakers and their Leadership
For over 60 years, STEC, founded as the first African American tennis club in the US, has transformed the lives of thousands of youth from low and moderate-income minority [...]
Sportsmen’s Kyle Denny wins local NAACP ACT-SO award
Each year, high school students across the country start a journey to sharpen their skills through the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO). From visual arts and business [...]
Boston businessman following through on promises made after death of George Floyd
Watch News Video Here Damian Wilmot is on a mission. Just two weeks after the death of George Floyd and during the height of the pandemic, he picked [...]
STEC Member Glynn Lloyd: Eastern Bank Spinoff and Lawrence Nonprofit Team Up to Boost Local Entrepreneurs
When Eastern Bank launched the Foundation for Business Equity in 2017, the eventual goal was to create a nonprofit that could stand on its own. Five years later, FBE [...]
Godamanna Wins Coach of the Year as Beacons Headline 2022 LEC Women’s Tennis All-Conference Awards
When Men's and Women's Head Coach Harshana Godamanna came back to the harbor campus to lead the two collegiate programs, one of his main goals was to bring home the first [...]
Sportsmen’s Tennis Center breaks ground on expansion
The Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center (STEC) joined the upgrade parade along Blue Hill Avenue in celebrating a groundbreaking on Oct. 12 for Phase 1 of their expansion plans [...]
Bulldog tennis star honored with Swardlick Spirit Cup
The Sam Swardlick Spirit Cup was established in memory of the late Sam Swardlick, a star athlete from the Canton High Class of 1936 and an inaugural member of the [...]