For the fourth straight year DCI Group was pleased to be sponsor the Washington Tennis & Education Foundation (WTEF) Tennis Ball last Friday night here in Washington, DC. The Tennis Ball is the major annual fundraiser for WTEF, and all proceeds benefit WTEF, its programs, and the children it serves.
As part of the two day event, a team from DCI competed in the 2010 Capital One Bank VIP Round Robin Tournament at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center. The event featured a round robin doubles competition among tennis celebrities, members of Congress, Tennis Ball sponsors, media, and other VIPs from the DC business community. The DCI Group team of Liz Murphy, Patrick Smith, and Tina Gray posted a solid 2-2 record in the round robin. The team was honored to play with a young WTEF scholar and former Senator John Breaux who is a member of the WTEF Board of Directors.
You can visit the WTEF web site to learn more about the organization, but here is a brief overview in their own words:
The Washington Tennis & Education Foundation was founded in 1955 as an organization designed to help disadvantaged youth through tennis. Since then, it has evolved into an organization that provides academic help to at-risk children by helping them to apply the lessons learned on the tennis court in the classroom and beyond. Today, WTEF is a leader in the best practice of providing academic enrichment, supplemented by tennis and life skills instruction, as a means for developing the skills necessary to achieve academic and personal success.
We believe in developing minds in the classroom and on the tennis court. The skills our children master through tennis such as – discipline, self-confidence, goal-setting, self-reliance and teamwork – are the same skills we show them how to use in the classroom to help them succeed academically and lead a positive life path.