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	2009 Delaine Mast Award

Nine years ago, Billie Jean King and World TeamTennis established the "Delaine Mast Award" for a male and female League director who contributes to the growth of TENNIS and WTT as well as being a leader and role model in her/her local tennis community. Mast embodies the slogan “growing the game of tennis”. A WTT National Program Coordinator and inner city high school boy’s and girl’s tennis coach since 1986, Mast has become a household name within the tennis community. Delaine is the founder and executive director for the Junior Tennis Corporation of America, which is a non-profit organization that raises money to provide free tennis lessons to more than 10,000 youngsters in 14 cities across the US.

As a result of her love of the game and heavy involvement in different organizations, Mast was elected in 1998 to a two year term as President, then Delegate of her USTA Section and appointed the USTA National Chair of the USA Tennis 1-2-3 Committee. She is currently serving on the USTA Nominating Committee that will elect the next USTA Board of Directors. As an active member of the USPTR and USPTA National Tennis Teachers Organizations, Mast has also received the Norman Bromall Service Award for her contributions to the game as well as her family receiving the 2004 USTA Family of the Year Award and the 2003 Middle States Family of the Year Award. For more information or nominations, call 866-PLAYWTT.

Nominations for the "Delaine Mast Awards" are based on the following criteria:

Current World TeamTennis League Director (league start date: August 2000 - present)
Overall contribution to the growth of tennis
Contribution to the growth of World TeamTennis (local promotions and exposure of WTT)
Leader and role model in local tennis community

2009 Delaine Mast Award Winners

Christy Funk from Reno, Nevada and Martin Brody from Tulsa, Oklahoma were honored with

the 2009 Delaine Mast Award. As WTT's top Rec League Directors at the WTT Nationals in

Indian Wells, Calif. Funk (left) and Brody (right) are pictured wtih WTT co-founder

Billie Jean King and the award's namesake Delaine Mast (center).

Christy Funk of Reno, Nev., and Martin Brody of Tulsa, Okla., are the 2009 recipients of the Delaine Mast Award. This annual award celebrates the accomplishments of two World TeamTennis Rec League directors, one male and one female, who contribute to the growth of tennis and WTT, and serve as leaders and role models in their local tennis communities.

Funk, who is the 2009 Reno Tahoe Tennis Hall of Fame inductee, has been an active leader in the tennis community for the past sixteen years. She has acted as Board Member Treasurer at the Biggest Little Tennis Association and has coordinated its children’s program, Washoe Kidz Tennis. Funk was also the driving force behind the 2004 re-emergence of the Reno/Tahoe Tennis Hall of Fame Gala, whose proceeds benefit local junior tennis programs. Funk has served as the Eastern Sierra Community Tennis Coordinator for the USTA, and is currently the volunteer coordinator for Northern Nevada World TeamTennis.

Funk, who is a Certified Tennis Professional, also owns tennis specialty store Funky Tennis and is the Director of Tennis activities at the Caughlin Club in Reno, Nev. Brody has been a prominent figure in the Tulsa tennis scene for more than thirty-five years, and has been the city’s World TeamTennis director for the past twelve years. Under his leadership, the Tulsa league has grown each year since Brody founded the league in 1998; it currently boasts a membership of over 400 players.

After becoming active in tennis in the 1960s as a member of the Boeing Company’s Employees Tennis Club, Brody founded and directed the American Airlines Tennis Club in Long Island, N.Y. and later served as president of the club’s Tulsa chapter. For the past six years, Brody has been on the Board of Directors for Tennis Competitors of Tulsa (TCT).