Inaugural Class
 Terry Killen
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​Joined USPTA in 1973     
        

• River Falls Swim & Tennis Assistant Tennis Professional   2005 – Present  
• Assistant Director Summer Academy Stone Ridge School of Sacred Heart 2002-2004
• Director of Tennis Holton Arms Creative Summer Program  1996-2001
• Assistant Manager Potomac Tennis Club   1992-1996                                                                  
• Director of Tennis Bretton Woods Country Club 1982-1992
• Tennis Instructor, Montgomery College 1983-1986

Service to the USPTA (State, Division & National):

• USPTA National Tester
• USPTA Pro-1 Rating
• USPTA Mid-Atlantic Section Divisional Officer  (8 years)
• USPTA Maryland Representative of Mid-Atlantic USPTA  (6 years)
• USPTA Greater Washington, D.C. Representative of Mid-Atlantic USPTA  (2 years)
• Mid-Atlantic USPTA Awards Chairperson  (6 years)
• Speaker, Mid-Atlantic USPTA Conference  (1984)  
• Tournament Player on Mid-Atlantic USPTA National Convention Divisional Team  (over 10 years)
• Tournament Player at USPTA National Conventions and at Mid-Atlantic Divisional Conferences 

(10 years)

• Team Captain and Coach     USTA Men's 55 Intersectional Team for Atlantic Coast Cup 2006 & 2007                                                                                 
• Head Men’s Tennis Coach  Gallaudet University; Washington, D.C  January 2005 – May 2005
• Assistant Men’s Tennis Coach (unpaid) Frostburg State University; Frostburg, Maryland  1998 – 2002
• Assistant Women’s Tennis Coach (unpaid) Frostburg State University; Frostburg, Maryland 2000
• Head Tennis Coach (Coed) Woodrow Wilson Senior High School; Washington, D.C.  1987, 1978 –  June 1983
• Head Men’s Tennis Coach Our Lady of Good Counsel High School; Wheaton, Maryland  1976                                                               
• Assistant Men’s Tennis Coach  Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia; Wise, Virginia  1973  
  
• Captain/Coach of United States Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic Intersectional  2006
•  Frostburg State University (Men’s Team)  Serving as the assistant tennis coach and tactical/technical advisor:
• Produced best four-year team record (47 – 15) in the school’s intercollegiate tennis history (since 1955)  
• Produced six consecutive Alleghany Mountain Collegiate Conference Players of the Year
• Produced the top five holders of career wins at the university
• In 2001, produced the university’s only undefeated tennis season since they have played intercollegiate tennis (since 1955)
• Frostburg State University (Women’s Team) Serving as the assistant tennis coach and tactical/technical advisor:
• Produced the 2000 Conference Rookie of the Year 

• Woodrow Wilson Senior High School Serving as the head tennis coach for seven seasons:

• Produced five undefeated seasons, resulting in five city championships, and two runners-up seasons

• Overall,  the record over seven seasons was 81 wins – 17 losses
• Produced twenty individual city champions.  Note: this is an inner city public high school without tennis courts.
• Clinch Valley CollegeServing as the assistant tennis coach:
• Produced two all-conference players and two all-NAIA Regional player

• Coach and instructor for numerous USTA Mid-Atlantic Division state and sectionally-ranked players over the past thirty-nine years  

 
Playing Skills/Rankings:

• United States Professional Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic Division Over 45 Player of the Year eight consecutive years (1995 through 2002)

 

• United States Professional Tennis Association National Ranking six years in different age groupings in singles and doubles

 

• Held top five United States Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic Sectional Rankings in the following age groupings:

 
Open Mixed Doubles
45 Men’s Singles 

30 Mixed Doubles
45 Men’s Doubles

35 Mixed Doubles
50 Men’s Singles

35 Men’s Doubles
50 Men’s Doubles 

40 Men’s Singles 
Father-Son Doubles

40 Men’s Doubles
Century Doubles

 

• Member of the United States Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic Intersectional Men’s 45 Team for the Casper Nannes Cup four consecutive years (1994 through 1997)

 

• Member of the United States Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic Intersectional Men’s 55 Team for the Atlantic Coast Cup four consecutive years (2004 through 2007)

 

• United States Tennis Association National Rankings in Men’s 55 Doubles:  #12 (2005); #38 (2006)

Service to Allied Associations:

• United States Tennis Association Lifetime Member

 

• United States Racquet Stringers Association Certified National Stringer (29 years)

 

• Wilson Sporting Goods National Advisory Staff/National Team (18 years)

 

• United States Tennis Association Member of Mid-Atlantic Intersectional Team (8 years)

 

• Captain/Coach of United States Tennis Association Atlantic Coast Cup Intersectional Team (2 years)

 

• Coordinator/Host for the Atlantic Coast Cup Intersectional Team Tournament and Banquet, 2006

 

• United States Tennis Association National Tennis Rating Program Sectional Verifier (20 years)

 

• United States Tennis Association NTRP Mid-Atlantic Appeals Committee (3 years)

 

• Director/Coordinator for the District of Columbia Coaches Association City Tennis Championships Tournament (5 years)

 

• Alleghany Mountain Collegiate Conference Tennis Tournament Seeding Committee (4 years)

 

• Wilson Racquet Sports Tennis Day at the Legg Mason Professional Tournament: Site Participant and Staff Exhibitor (8 years)

 

• Ward 3 Neighborhood Advisory/Planning Commission Co-Chair of Fort Reno Park Tennis Court Building Committee (1985 – 1988)

 

• Clinician and Instructor for Tim and Tom Gullikson's Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation's “Madisen’s Match”; Fort Myers, Florida (2009-2011); scheduled for 2012 event as well

 
Publications/Presentations/Innovations:

• Published article for USPTA Addvantage Magazine                                                    September 2008

 

• Published article for USPTA Mid-Atlantic Service Lines Magazine          September/November 2007

 

• National High School Athletic Coaches Association National Convention: Featured Speaker on High School Tennis                                                                                        1998

• On-Site Convention Coordinator for the National High School Athletic Coaches Association National Convention           1998

 

• Head Speaker, King County, Seattle, Washington: American Cancer Society’s  Tennis Fundraiser and Charity Tournament                                                                                     1993

• Speaker at USPTA Mid-Atlantic Conference                                                                                  1984

 

• District of Columbia Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Award Presentation Speaker        1984

 
Awards and Honors:

• United States Professional Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic Division Maryland Tennis Professional of the Year six times (1986, 1988, 1989, 1994, 2000, 2002)

 

• United States Professional Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic division Greater Washington, D.C. Tennis Professional of the Year three times (1987, 1990, 1996)

 

• District of Columbia Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance                 1984

          Outstanding Service Award for Coaching Excellence  

• United States Professional Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic Division Coach of the Year             1983

• National High School Athletic Coaches Association:                                                                        1983

          Regional High School Coach of the Year    

• National High School Athletic Coaches Association      State High School Coach of the Year    1983

          

• District of Columbia Interscholastic Coaches Association Tennis Coach of the Year                 1983