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The USTA is dedicated to Diversity and Inclusion and making tennis look like America?
Cherokee Citizen Vance McSpadden was a four-year tennis standout at NSU in the late 1930’s? He captained the Redmen squad his Jr and Sr season at NSU. He was 1939 Senior Class President and Student Council Vice-President. After serving as a Navy Lieutenant in the Pacific during World War II, Vance Sr. coached Tahlequah High School to the team State Tennis Championship in 1948. He, with his brothers, were inducted into the Missouri Valley Tennis Hall of Fame.
Vance McSpadden Jr. was inducted into the Oklahoma Tennis Hall of Fame.
In 2018 Macy Rose, a citizen of Cherokee Nation who was born in Tahlequah OK and whom attended Cherokee Nation Immersion School through the second grade, was appointed by the United States Tennis Association as a USTA NetGen Ambassador, to help grow and spread the sport.
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