Adopt-A-Unit:
The Mid-Atlantic Section is partnering with USTA Serves to Adopt a Unit serving in Afghanistan and will be sending care packages of necessities to the unit. In turn, USTA Serves, the National Charitable Foundation of the USTA, will send portable tennis equipment to the adopted unit on our behalf. This is the perfect time of year to give Thanks to our Military for their service to our country! Items will be collected at the Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon.
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About the Speakers:
Brian Boland
For over a decade, the name Brian Boland has been synonymous with success. Beginning with five seasons at Indiana State and over the past 10 years at Virginia, Boland has proven to be one of the elite coaches in collegiate tennis.
Championships, both conference and national, both team and individual, have become a constant theme of Boland’s squads. In 15 seasons as a head coach, his teams have won four ITA National Team Indoor Championships, 10 conference championships and nine NCAA and ITA individual national championships.
Boland’s resume is loaded with honors and accomplishments. His .837 career winning percentage (395-77) places him with the legends of the sport. In addition to his national coach of the year recognition in 2008, Boland has won nine conference coach of the year awards and been named ITA Regional Coach of the Year four times.
As he enters his 11th season at Virginia, Boland has built a championship caliber program in Charlottesville. In his first 10 seasons, he took a team that was unranked in the ITA Top 75 when he inherited it to four consecutive ITA National Team Indoor Championships. During that time, his teams have had a No. 1 national ranking during five different seasons, won seven ACC Championships, eight ACC regular season titles, advanced to the 2011 NCAA final, the NCAA semifinals four times and the quarterfinals three other seasons, and set the school record for wins in a season. Those teams featured two NCAA Singles Champions, two NCAA Doubles Champions, 24 All-Americans, 23 NCAA singles and 11 NCAA doubles participants, 33 All-ACC selections, two ITA National Players of the Year, one ITA National Freshman of the Year, five ITA Regional Rookies of the Year, three ACC Freshmen of the Year, eight ACC Tournament MVPs, and an ACC Player of the Year.
A 1995 graduate of Indiana State University, Boland earned a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. He and his wife, Becky, reside in Charlottesville with their children, Briana (11), Bryce (10) and Brendan (7), and Brooke (5).
Ellen Considine-Miller
Ellen Considine-Miller is the Director of Junior Programs at the Tennis Center at College Park. She was instrumental in building its 10 and Under program from its infancy into one of the premier programs in the Mid-Atlantic. Miller is especially proud of the fact that the program is built on the concept of progression and in that vein, utilizes the full complement of mini- rackets, modified courts and low compressions balls. She introduced innovative programs like the Parent and Me class and hosts regular in-house tennis events, play days and USTA Team Tennis which have helped build a loyal following.
Miller, a USPTA certified professional, played college tennis at Rice University. She holds a Masters degree in Elementary Education from The George Washington University, a degree that has served her well working with young children.
Sue Hunt
Sue Hunt is the Chief Marketing Officer of the USTA. She began with the USTA in 2006 as Senior Director, Marketing, and was promoted to her current position in 2011. In this role, Hunt oversees the Marketing and Membership departments and works out of the association’s national headquarters in White Plains, N.Y.
In her five years with the USTA, Hunt has worked across all channels to grow and market the association’s endeavors both in the professional and community realms, including the development and execution of the "It Must Be Love" advertising campaign for the US Open and the Olympus US Open Series. Most recently, she orchestrated and oversaw the development of a marketing and advertising campaign for the USTA’s historic 10 and Under Tennis initiative with a series of television and internet marketing pieces advocating changes in the game to get more kids involved in tennis at a younger age.
In addition to her duties with the USTA, Hunt serves on the board of directors for Bridgeport Tennis and Education, a Community Tennis Association formed to bring tennis programming and opportunities to the residents of the city. In addition, she was recently elected Ad Council Board of Directors.
Hunt graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Her husband, Scott Slobin, is a teaching pro at a club in Fairfield, Conn., where the couple lives with their three children.
Patrick Kearns
Patrick Kearns began his tennis career by attending the Professional Tennis Management program at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mi. in which he graduated in the fall of 1989. Kearns was in the first PTM class at Ferris State University in 1986.
Kearns spent two years working at the John's Island Club in Vero Beach, Fl., five years at the Round Hill Club in Greenwich, Conn., and two years at the Country Club of Darien. He has been the Head Tennis Professional at Farmington Country Club since 1995.
Kearns resides in Charlottesville with his wife Patti and his two daughters Lauren and Hannah.