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Tracy Davies goals to raise American tennis as a trailblazer.
Davies has been named as Basic Supervisor USA Tennis, the USTA introduced right this moment. She’s the primary lady to carry the high-performance management position.
On this new position, Davies will oversee an expanded excessive efficiency division that joins Participant Growth, Professional Circuit, Collegiate, Junior Competitors, and Worldwide Staff Occasions right into a single cohesive division.
“Because the strategic enterprise lead for this division, she can be tasked with optimizing the assets and participant pathways for probably the most aggressive juniors {and professional} gamers so as to foster a tradition of transparency, alignment, and innovation, impacting gamers by means of competitors, teaching, and participant assist,” the USTA mentioned in a press release.
“Following an intensive search, I’m thrilled to announce that Tracy Davies will lead our USA Tennis division,” mentioned Lew Sherr, CEO and Govt Director of the USTA. “Tracy brings not solely deep expertise in excessive efficiency and training, but in addition a strategic mindset and enterprise acumen that can improve how we method the aggressive pathway and assist form the way forward for American tennis at each degree.”
On this new position, Davies can be accountable for integrating athlete growth, excessive efficiency, and aggressive pathways, together with collegiate tennis, throughout the USTA.
The USTA mentioned Davies will “be tasked with adopting a holistic method to athlete assist, encompassing efficiency optimization, well-being, and aggressive success in alignment with the USTA’s mission and strategic precedence: rising tennis to encourage more healthy individuals and communities in every single place.”
That’s an enormous task. Davies says she’s embracing it.
“I’m thrilled to be the brand new chief of our USA Tennis Division. With the latest alignment of our participant growth and competitors pathways, we’ve a novel alternative to reimagine a broader extra holistic imaginative and prescient of success for our American athletes,” mentioned Davies. “My precedence is to construct on the group’s robust foundations as we glance to offer elevated high-quality aggressive alternatives and expanded player-centric assist and coaching for our high-performance junior, collegiate {and professional} athletes.
“I’m extraordinarily excited to get began and sit up for working collaboratively with our gamers, their assist groups, and the expanded tennis business to proceed to drive a world-class assist system for our subsequent technology of gamers.”
