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The
Texan
The Official Publication of the USPTA Texas Division Spring 2011 Edition
Are you up for the
INSIDE:
One-Clinic Challenge....................................5
2010 Annual Conference ......................8-11
USPTA Update .....................................12-13
Healthy Habits .........................................16
Challenge?
One hour, one clinic, fight childhood obesity.

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Texas Division
President
Charlotte Wylie
7111 N.E. Loop 820
North Richland Hills, Texas 76180
817-427-6680
cwylie@richland-tennis-center.com
Regional Vice President
Jim Sciarro
6700 Hollytree Blvd.
Tyler, Texas 75023
903-581-7788
jim@hollytreeclub.com
1st Vice President
Guillaume Gauthier
320 Shiloh Road
Tyler, Texas 75703
903-561-3014
gauthierguillaume@hotmail.com
2nd Vice President
David Webb
500 Trophy Club
Trophy Club, Texas 76262
817-491-9586
David.D.Webb@ourclub.com
3rd Vice President
Jenny Gray
1200 S. Shary Road
Mission, Texas 78572
956-581-7401
gray.jenny@hotmail.com
Secretary
Nancy Vivero
3911 N. Sandy Ct.
Missouri City, Texas 77459
713-205-1568
NANCYMV243@aol.com
Treasurer
Craig Bell
5201 Westgrove Drive
Dallas, Texas 75248
972-931-7326 ext. 2121
CBell1360@aol.com
Executive Director
Christy Sobey
6027 Trinity Fork Drive, #827
Fort Worth, Texas 76116
1-888-445-0505 Toll Free
682-365-4325 Cell
christysobey@gmail.com
Fortunately this year’s Annual Conference and Southwest Buying Show was not hampered as much by the
weather as our conference in 2010. We survived some cold temperatures on Thursday and Friday and a little
ice on the back of the courts on Saturday. Other than that it was another great weekend of educational
opportunities and networking.
I would like to thank everyone who made this year’s conference and buying show such a success. Special
thanks to Craig Bell for lining up such a great group of speakers and presenters and to Jenny Gray for once
again organizing a phenomenal buying show. As always Christy Sobey does a great job keeping us organized
and on track for all the events during the course of the weekend. Thanks to Loyce Woods for helping at the
registration desk. I think everyone would agree the conference would not be the same if we did not see her
smiling face behind the registration table!
I would also like to recognize all our wonderful sponsors. HEAD/Penn Racquet Sports sponsored our Friday
night dinner and casino night, as well as Feisal Hassan’s specialty course and on court doubles seminar. Our
general membership meeting and lunch was cosponsored by the Fort Worth Professional Tennis Association
and the Dallas Professional Tennis Association. Nick Bollettieri’s session was courtesy of Prince Sports and
Wilson sponsored MaliVai Washington as the keynote speaker for our annual Texas Hall of Fame Awards
Banquet. It is these partnerships and our strong partnership with USTA Texas that continues to keep the
USPTA Texas Division in the forefront of our organization.
April promises to be an active month for Texas tennis. I hope many of you have an opportunity to go to the US
Men’s Clay Court Championships held at River Oaks Country Club in Houston April 4 – 10, 2011. Co-tournament
chairs Ron Woods and Jenny Gray have planned a fun Champion of Champions event during the professional
tournament. USPTA Texas will be busy this whole week; not only with the tournament but also offering a
specialty course on Thursday, April 7 and hosting the USPTA Executive Committee members at the tournament
Thursday afternoon.
I hope you all are looking forward to the change in location from Houston to the Hyatt Hill Country August 25
– 27, 2011. I know I am! The weekend promises something for the whole family. Board member David Webb
is planning our golf outing; there will be educational opportunities, the Southwest Buying Show and even a
lazy river for the kids. Hope to see many of you in August!
I would like to remind everyone to register your Tennis Across America events and join the One-Clinic Challenge
to raise awareness of one of society’s biggest problems today: childhood obesity. The USPTA has issued a
challenge to all the divisions and they will reward the division that hosts the most events per capita and
increases the number of events from 2010. USPTA Texas wants to win this contest not only for the $1000 for
the divisional party in Saddlebrook but for bragging rights! If you have any questions please contact Karen
Crumpton, TAA Committee Chair.
In closing, I would like to thank both Joe Snailum and Barry Mills for all their hard work for USPTA Texas and
for serving on the board. I would also like to welcome new board members Craig Bell and Nancy Vivero. As
a board we are looking forward to more member involvement at the committee levels. The Membership
Committee chaired by Jory Erikson is already involved with sending out new member welcome packets. So if
you have any interest in becoming involved please do not hesitate to contact any board member. I look
forward to this year as your division president and hope we all can work together to keep USPTA Texas at the
forefront of our organization.

2011 USPTA Texas
Committee Chairpersons
Awards Ron Woods
Awards Co-Chair David Gloger
Buying Show Chair Jenny Gray
Division Conference Craig Bell
Education Jack Foster
Ethics/Legal Tommy Connell
Diversity Nancy Vivero
Finance Barry Mills
Jr. Development Charlotte Wylie
USPTA Little Tennis Charlotte Wylie
Lessons For Life Tommy Connell
Long-Range Planning Randy Mattingley
Membership Jory Ereckson
National Convention Jim Sciarro
Nominating Dennis Reblin
Public Relations Van Barry
Regional Directors Jim Sciarro
Scrapbook Ron Woods
Sport Science Bob Haugen
Tennis Across America Karen Crumpton
Testing/Certification Tom Ingram
Tournaments/Division Guillaume Gauthier
USPTA Adult Leagues Jim Sciarro
USTA Liaison Ken McAllister
Regional Directors
Austin
Tosha Smith
512-443-1334
Bryan/College Station
Brad Bradham
979-361-7239
Central Texas
Julien Curatella
254-753-7675
East Texas
Karen Crumpton
936-631-1529
Fort Worth
Ernie Abraham
817-473-1311
Dallas
Ray Majors
214-670-6622
North Texas
Bobby Hagerman
940-322-7700
San Antonio
Barry Mills
210-698-2288
South Texas
Gerald Tjon-A-Joe
361-949-8228
Valley
Jenny Gray
956-581-7401
West Texas
David Mendez
432-272-4520
Saturday
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Alerts
USPTA Events, Education,
Certification & Testing
April
4-10 US Men’s Clay Court Championships, Houston
7 USPTA specialty course Building & Repairing the
Fundamentals, Houston
20-21 Certification and Testing Exam (Tyler)
May
14 USPTA Tennis Across America Day
June
5 Certification and Testing Exam (Austin)
24-25 Certification and Testing Exam (Houston)
July
22-23 Certification and Testing Exam (Houston)
August
7 Certification and Testing Exam (Dallas)
13 Texas QuickStart Championship, Kingwood
25-27 USPTA Texas Summer Retreat, San Antonio
September
16-17 USPTA Texas Junior Gran Prix, New Braunfels
19-24 USPTA World Conference on Tennis, Florida
October
9 Certification and Testing Exam (Fort Worth)
14-15 Certification and Testing Exam (Houston)
21-23 USPTA Hard Court Championships, Tyler
November
18-19 Certification and Testing Exam (Houston)
December
11 Certification and Testing Exam (San Antonio)
9-10 Certification and Testing Exam (Houston)
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2011 USPTA Texas Adult League Championships
The USPTA Texas Division Adult League Championship tournament was held in Houston, January 21-23, 2011. Fourteen
regions in Texas plus one team from Denver, Colo., participated in the three-day event. Each team consisted of
a minimum of 16 players and competed in round robin team format playing two lines of doubles at each level from
3.0 through 4.5. Matches consisted of a total of 16 games with each game won earning one point for the team.
A Texas-sized THANK YOU goes to the USPTA Texas pros who donated three days of their time to run the event; Jim
Sciarro, Jenny Gray, Karen Crumpton, Charlotte Wylie, James Daly, Hamish MacKay, Dencil Johnson and Frankie
Vignikpo.
2011 Women’s Champions
Fort Worth
2011 Men’s Champions
College Station
Flight I
Abilene 301
Fort Worth 297
Georgetown 255
College Station 233
Houston 219
Flight III
Lubbock 300
Valley 290
Tyler 282
Dallas 272
Kingwood 136
Flight I
College Station 319
Tyler 269
Southeast 257
Abilene 243
Fort Worth 186
Flight II
Southeast 285
Austin 271
San Antonio 265
Corpus Christi 232
Colorado 227
Semifinals
Fort Worth def. Lubbock
69 - 59
Southeast def. Abilene
66 - 62
Finals
Fort Worth def. Southeast
64 - 64
Fort Worth wins by 34-30 when
only games won in line #1 final
match counted
Finals
College Station 67
Austin 61
Flight II
Austin 318
Waco 268
San Antonio 262
Dallas 224
Corpus Christi 172

One-Clinic Challenge
are working to fight childhood obesity
one hour, one clinic at a time.
Join the One-Clinic Challenge to help fight the health crisis facing our society.
The Tennis Across America section of the USPTA website (www.uspta.com) provides
you with resources and ideas for your TAA events, tips on building local
partnerships, sample materials to help with promoting the events and much,
much more. Tennis Across America can be more than a one-day event; it is also
a tool that can spark interest in other tennis programs. A few event ideas include:
Adult Clinic; Little Tennis Event; Cardio Tennis Clinic; Member/guest
Event; Junior Clinic; 10-and-under tennis featuring QuickStart Tennis Play Format.
Don’t forget to register your event at www.uspta.com and click on the
Tennis Across America logo on the home page.
For more information or questions contact:
Karen Crumpton 936-631-1529 kcrowncolony@yahoo.com
Christy Sobey 888-445-0505 christysobey@gmail.com
ACCEPT the CHALLENGE
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2011 USPTA Texas
Summer Summer Retreat
Retreat
August 25-27, 2011
Make plans now to attend the 2011
USPTA Texas Summer Retreat at the fabulous
Hyatt Hill Country in San Antonio,
Texas. Make your hotel reservation by
August 10, 2011 to receive the USPTA
Texas rate of $109. The weekend promises
to be fun for the whole family with
educational opportunities, the Southwest Buying Show, a golf tournament
and there’s even talk of a beach tennis tournament. The Hyatt
Hill Country offers a lazy river, hike and bike trails, several pools and
nightly smores. Go to www.hillcountry.hyatt.com to view a full list of
hotel activities. For more information please contact Christy at 1-888-
445-0505 or christysobey@gmail.com. See you in San Antonio.

USPTA specialty course
Building & Repairing the Fundamentals
Dennis Ralston
Thursday, April 7, 2011
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
River Oaks Country Club
1600 River Oaks Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77019
$65 USPTA Members $85 Nonmembers
The specialty course package includes the USPTA specialty course, a
ticket to the US Men’s Clay Court Championships afternoon matches on
Thursday and lunch at River Oaks Country Club.
Call Christy at 1-888-445-0505 to sign up (register by March 31 to receive lunch).
DENNIS RALSTON: Elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, former U.S. Davis Cup player
and captain, Dennis Ralston coached the Team from 1968 – 1972. Winner of 27 national singles and doubles titles
and a five-time winner of Grand Slam doubles titles, Ralston began playing tennis at the age of 5. Wimbledon and the
tennis public first heard from him in 1960. As a 17- year- old he joined with his University of Southern California
teammate 21-year-old Rafael Osuna .Together they took the doubles prize. Unseeded, they were the youngest to win
at the Big W, 7-5, 6-3, 10-8 over Mike Davies and Bobby Wilson. It was as a doubles player, in the right court
alongside Chuck McKinley that he made his strongest showing. They won the U.S. title in 1961, 1963 and 1964 and
were in the final in 1962. They pried the punchbowl away from Australia, 3-2 at Adelaide in 1963. After a stellar
playing career, he was the first traveling coach on the pro tour. Chris Evert, Roscoe Tanner, Yannick Noah, Gabriela
Sabatini and John Lloyd were among the tennis greats Dennis coached. Ralston was one of those rare men who were
a Davis Cup winner both as a player and captain. A slim 6’2" tall, Ralston was a stylish stroker with a piercing
forehand, a fine server and excellent volleyer who was in the U.S. Top Ten for seven straight years from 1960. He was
the first to be No. 1 three straight years (1963-65) since Don Budge (1936-38) His career spanned the amateur and
open eras and he made the World Top Ten in both: 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1968 (No. 5 in 1966 when he lost the final at Wimbledon to Manolo
Santana). He was the first of three men to have won U.S. doubles titles on the four surfaces; grass, clay, indoor and hard followed by Stan Smith and
Bob Lutz. Dennis was inducted into the Southern California Hall of Fame in
US Men’s Clay Court Championship
April 4-10, 2011
River Oaks Country Club
For tickets call 713-874-6294 or visit
www.mensclaycourt.com
2007. Since his active playing career, he has made a name as an outstanding
educator and influence in the coaching world while varsity tennis coach at
Southern Methodist University. Between 1968 and 1971 he served as a coach
of winning U.S. teams and in 1972 he became captain for a four year term.
Dennis is currently working part time with ATP tour players and also nationally
ranked juniors. Dennis coached the Southern Methodist University Tennis Team
from 1979 through 1993. He was named NCAA Coach of the Year in 1984.
Ralston held the position of Director of Tennis at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado
Springs, CO from 1994 through 2006. His camps were rated #1 teaching staff
by Tennis Magazine while he was Director. Dennis works part time with Dusan Vemic of Serbia, currently ranked 32 in the world in doubles. He coaches
twin boys, 14 year old Ian and Alex Van Cott from Unadilla, New York, currently ranked nationally in the top 10 in Boys’ 14 and under.
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2010 USPTA Texas Annual
Conference & Southwest
Buying Show

THANK YOU to HEAD/Penn for sponsoring
another great HEAD/Penn Casino Party at
the 2010 USPTA Texas Annual Conference
& Southwest Buying Show. A special thank
you to Dave Green and Tom Judson.
Look for information on page 17 about the HEAD String-a-Mile Contest and the
opportunity to win fabulous prizes including a trip for two to the Barclays ATP
World Tour Finals in London.
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USPTA Texas Stars Shine at
the 2011 Texas Tennis Hall
of Fame Awards Banquet Alex O’Brien, Texas Tennis Hall of Fame
Inductee; Chanda Rubin, USTA Board
Member; Mal Washington, Keynote Speaker
Charlotte Wylie, USPTA Texas Pro of the Year Ken McAllister, USPTA Texas Industry
Excellence Award
Jory Ereckson, USPTA Texas
Facility Manager of the Year
Guillaume Gauthier, Texas Proud
Fernando Velasco, USPTA Texas
Lessons for Life Award
Gerry Maingot, USPTA Texas
Charlie McCleary Community
Service Award
Kendall Brooks, USPTA Texas Touring
Coach of the Year
David Denham, USPTA Texas
High School Coach of the Year

TEXAS TALENT
USPTA Texas Player of the Year
Awards: Announced during the USPTA
Texas General Membership Meeting
From left to right:
Guillaume Gauthier Men’s Open Co-Player of the Year
James Daly Men’s Open Co-Player of the Year
Jonas Lundblad Men’s 35 Player of the Year
Micky Navarro Men’s 45 Player of the Year
Fernando Velasco Men’s 65 Player of the Year
Tom Ingram USPTA Texas Tester of the Year
2011 USPTA Texas Division
Board of Directors
Back row from left to right:
Guillaume Gauthier 1st Vice President
Charlotte Wylie President
Nancy Vivero Secretary
Front row from left to right:
Jim Sciarro Regional Vice President
Christy Sobey USPTA Texas Executive Director
David Webb 2nd Vice President
Jenny Gray 3rd Vice President
Craig Bell Treasurer
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Congratulations Jack Newman
USTA Texas Lloyd Sessions
Educational Merit Award Winner
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Award Winners Not Pictured:
Michael Center USPTA Texas College
Coach of the Year
Sheri Norris USPTA Texas Dean Larson
Rep of the Year
Kimm Ketelsen Men’s 55 Player of the Year
Tiffany Tucker Women’s Open Player of the Year
Kathy Vick Women’s 45 Player of the Year
Jonas Lundblad
Cardio Shoot Out
Winner
Join Jonas at the 2011 World
Conference on Tennis as he represents
Texas in the National
Cardio Shoot Out
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USPTA Update
USPTA Tennisresources.com
Tennisresources.com offers thousands of high-quality educational tennis materials,
including technical, tactical and strategic instruction, tips on physical and mental
development of players and information on business and facility management.
Tennisresources.com targets tennis-teaching professionals and coaches and tennis players of all levels. The site provides teaching
professionals with all the tools they need to enhance their lessons and programs from the convenience of their own homes/offices,
whether they teach competitive juniors and adults or Little Tennis players. It allows teaching professionals to enhance their knowledge
and skills and stay on top of teaching methods, drills and techniques. Tennis players will also find the site useful with access to numerous
instructional videos, one-minute video tips and drills from top tennis-teaching professionals to help improve their game. Tennisresources.com
is also iPhone, iPad and Android-compatible.
Below is just a sampling of the materials that you will find at tennisresources.com:
Slow-motion video footage of professional players’ strokes Drills that will improve your game
One-minute video tips by USPTA Professionals and Master Professionals Interviews with the world’s top professional coaches
Tennis seminars from past USPTA World Conferences Hundreds of informative teaching articles
Hundreds of audio seminars Ready-to-use drill diagrams
Templates for draws, match charts, drills and more Easy lesson planner for teachers and coaches
Access to Tennis Resource Forum to exchange ideas, post questions about tennis
Tennisresources.com is a subscription-based site and paid subscribers have unlimited access to the highest quality educational tennis
material available in the industry. Other benefits available to subscribers include rating media, the opportunity to leave comments about
media, sharing content with others by sending it via e-mail and saving media to a list of personal “Favorites” so that you may quickly find
the content that is most useful to you. USPTA members receive a complimentary basic subscription. There are several subscription rates
available to fit any budget. Visit tennisresources.com today for more information and to view sample clips.
USPTA Professionals raise more than $5 million for charity
In 2010, United States Professional Tennis Association teaching professionals raised more than $5 million for charity through the association’s
Lessons for Life program. Lessons for Life became USPTA’s national charitable program in 1999 and since then the USPTA and its
members have raised more than $45 million in an effort to support various charities. Through this program, the USPTA encourages its
members to use tennis as a vehicle to help others through fundraisers and other activities in their communities. The fundraisers take
many forms including tournaments, pro-ams, auctions, black-tie dinners and clinics. Many of the fundraisers take place at country clubs
and commercial clubs, where the majority of USPTA Professionals direct tennis operations and programming.
In 2009 an additional element was added to the program when the USPTA and Rally for the Cure joined forces to raise awareness in the
fight against breast cancer through tennis and Lessons for Life under the broader Tennis – for the health of it! initiative. Rally for the Cure
has the tools and materials for USPTA tennis-teaching professionals interested in running a Lessons for Life charity tennis event in
support of Rally for the Cure. This is just one more way USPTA teaching professionals can give to important causes through tennis and
Lessons for Life. Lessons for Life is officially celebrated in October, but USPTA members may direct and participate in fundraisers yearround.
Any fundraising that you do for recognized charities – giving free lessons or clinics, organizing tournaments and play in pro-ams,
conducting auctions, and hosting black-tie dinners – can be counted in Lessons for Life numbers. Reporting is easy if you send an e-mail
to your division liaison or to lessonsforlife@uspta.org or send an electronic report via the Lessons for Life section of www.uspta.com.

USPTA accepting nominations for annual awards
USPTA is now accepting nominations for its 2011 National Awards Program until the July 1 deadline. Recipients will be honored during the
annual awards breakfast during the USPTA World Conference Sept. 19 – 24 at the Saddlebrook Resort in Wesley Chapel, Fla. All Professionallevel
USPTA members are eligible. The award categories are: USPTA Stars, USPTA Industry Excellence Award, Alex Gordon Award for
Professional of the Year, Large- and Small-Facility Manager of the Year Award,College Coach of the Year, High School Coach of the
Year, Touring Coach of the Year, George Bacso Tester of the Year, USPTA Lessons for LifeTM Award, USPTA Tennis Across AmericaTM Award and USPTA Diversity Award. Players who have been the most successful at the USPTA International Championships and/or USPTA
national surface tournaments, as well as international, national and sectional competition may apply for the Player of the Year award. The
eight categories for this award are: men’s open, women’s open, men’s 35-and-over, women’s 35-and-over, men’s 45-and-over, women’s
45-and-over, and men’s 55-and-over and women’s 55-and-over. Award nomination forms and guidelines are available at www.uspta.com,
by calling 800-877-8248 or by sending a request to pr@uspta.org.
Courtside USA is the official network of the USPTA
Courtside USA and the United States Professional Tennis Association have joined forces to give USPTA tennis-teaching professionals stateof-the-art
tools to run their tennis programs online. Courtside USA provides tennis teachers and clubs access to a free website to build their
business and connect with their members/players from one central location. The site gives teaching professionals the technology they need
to run leagues, ladders, tournaments, flex leagues and round robins. In addition, they can manage lesson bookings, court bookings and
events, all from the convenience of their computer. Courtside USA also provides players with a free web page with interactive social networking
capabilities, where they have the opportunity to organize their matches and connect with other players. They can also register for leagues,
events and programs at their local club or in the community from their web page.
To find out more about Courtside USA, visit www.courtsideusa.com. Look for e-mails from the World Headquarters with upcoming dates for
webinars or contact Nancy Biggs at nancybiggs@tenniscores.com or by calling 704-806-8116.
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2011 USA Bueno Cup Team (from left to right):
Diane Fishburne, S.C.; Susan Wright, Colo.; Kathy
Vick, Texas; JoAnn Russell, Calif.
USA wins the Bueno Cup in Ashburton,
New Zealand with team captain Kathy
Vick, USPTA Texas member. USA won
their round robin to advance to the semifinals.
In the semifinals they beat Great
Britain 3-0 and then defeated Australia
2-1 in the finals. Congratulations!!
2011 USPTA Texas Junior Gran Prix State Championships
Below you will find important information concerning the 2011 USPTA Texas
Junior Gran Prix State Championships to be held at John Newcombe Tennis
Ranch in New Braunfels, September 16-18, 2011. Please review carefully as
there have been some rule changes.
Texas Talk
Racquet Sports Industry
magazine recognized their
award winners in the January
2011 issue. USPTA Texas
Member, Ron Woods was
named RSI’s USPTA Member
of the Year. “It is a great honor
to be chosen by RSI for USPTA
Member of the Year,” Woods
said. “The work I have done
for many associations locally,
divisionally, setionally and nationally
is the same type of
work and effort that many
USPTA professionals are doing
Ron Woods, RSI’s USPTA
Member of the Year
for our great game and profession on a daily basis. This
award should go to many others as well in the industry.”
Eligibility & Age Requirements:
* Champ and Superchamp qualified players are ineligible to play in the State Championships. Each local
circuit can set their own rules for eligibility but qualified players may not participate in the State
Championships.
* Players who qualify for Champs on August 1, 2011 or later may still participate.
* Players must begin play in their local circuits at the age division appropriate to State eligibility using
September 1, 2011 as the cut off date. Ex: A player who will turn 15 on September 1, 2011 must play in
the 16 age division for their circuit to qualify for State.
State Team Requirements:
* The new age divisions are as follows: 10s Green Ball, 10s Yellow Ball, 12s, 14s, 16s. This is a change
from previous years since so many teams have trouble filling the boys and girls 18s.
* Players are allowed to play “up” one division but never a lower division.
* There is a 12 team maximum at the State Championships.
* Teams playing in the 2010 State Championships will be invited back first to compete in the 2011 State
Championships.
* Teams failing to bring a full roster to the 2011 State Championships will not receive an invitation to play
in the 2012 State Championships.
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HEALTHY HABITS
Is it Baby Fat—or Obesity?
By Sarah Klein
FRIDAY, Feb. 5 (Health.com) — Desani Marshall was never really overweight, but she was always a little big for her age.
During a checkup at age 4, her doctor pointed out to her mother that Desani was gaining weight more rapidly than he
thought was normal. Six months later, she was still putting on pounds at a rapid pace—a strong predictor of future obesity.
“I didn’t take it seriously; I didn’t think it was that bad,” says Desani’s mother, Caryl Marshall, of New York City. “But then he
showed me the growth chart. At the rate she was gaining, what really made me take it more seriously was what the future
could be.” Now 7, Desani is gaining weight at a normal pace, thanks in part to dietary changes—such as cutting out soda—
that Marshall has implemented. “Everybody would look at her and say, ‘She’s so skinny. Why?’” Marshall says of her
daughter’s regimen.
In some ways, Desani’s success story is an exception. Across the country, childhood obesity has only gotten worse. More
than 20 years after it was first described as an epidemic, 17% of American children and adolescents are obese—triple the
rate in 1980—and nearly one-third are overweight, according to the latest government data. Alarming statistics such as
these have prompted government agencies, schools, and nonprofit organizations to launch a barrage of anti-obesity programs
in recent years.
Their sense of urgency is not shared by all parents, however. In fact, studies have consistently shown that parents tend to
underestimate their child’s weight and the health risks associated with being too heavy. In a 2006 study that surveyed the
parents of obese children, only one-half recognized that their child was overweight, and less than one-third said they were
“worried” about their child’s weight. In another survey, only 38% of parents had taken steps, or were planning to take
them, to help their obese child lose weight.
Several factors may be contributing to this indifference among parents, experts say. Some parents believe their child’s
excess weight is just “baby fat,” for instance, and some may simply be in denial. Or it could be that parents have concluded
their kid is normal after eyeballing his or her overweight peers. “Because so many children are overweight and obese…they
don’t stand out as much as they would have 20 or 30 years ago,” says nutritionist Elisa Zied, a registered dietitian and
spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. “I almost see a lack of concern with some parents.”
Parents should be concerned. Although some overweight kids do outgrow their baby fat, roughly two out of three are likely
to grow up to be obese adults, according to a 2009 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Childhood obesity, moreover, is associated with a slew of serious health problems, including diabetes, asthma, heart disease,
and depression.
How do you know if your child’s chubbiness is baby fat or a serious health problem? You can’t always tell just by looking,
and you can’t always count on pediatricians to broach the subject. But you can take matters into your own hands and adopt
habits that will keep your child as healthy as possible.
Reference: www.health.com

Member Memos
USPTA membership card, certificate, education report card and
insurance letter are all available online at uspta.com and are no
longer being mailed.
The newest member tool allows you to print membership
documents from your home or office computer, including membership cards, membership certificates,
education report cards, insurance verification letters and dues invoices. Each document is personalized, dated
and includes a security verification code for your protection. Only members in good standing will be able to
print documents that verify membership.
Log into uspta.com as a member
using your last name and member
number and click on the new
menu item “My membership.”
Then, you can select member
documents, liability insurance and
member profile (you’ll be asked to
log into each area). From these
areas you can print documents,
purchase additional liability
insurance, update your contact
information and pay dues online.
Jory Ereckson
USPTA Texas Membership Chair
jereckson@berrycreekcc.com
A Big Texas Welcome to the new USPTA Texas members!
Abraham Alvarez, Manuel Avila, Kayla Blackburn, Jose
Blanco, Ian Bradburn, Vanja Corovic, Daniel De La Cruz,
Francisco Dias, Octavian Dinuta, Luis Gomez, Allan Graham,
Cynthia Harmonson, Mark Hodge, Simon Joe, Lynn Khaing,
Stephen Kline, Angelica Lagrange, Alex Ortega, Charles
Rasor, Agustin Salazar and Meenakshi Sundaram
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got golf?
we do!
2011 USPTA Texas
Summer Retreat
August 25-27, 2011
Status Update: Follow
USPTA Texas on the
Official USPTA Texas
Division Facebook
page.

Need Something? Go to www.uspta.com
USPTA members can find it all at one address. Go to
www.uspta.com for all your tennis needs. Create a
personal website, check your educational credits, find
lesson plans, watch USPTA.TV, register a Tennis Across
America event, research career center PR tools and
much, much more.
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