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GHP Fitness & Nutrition Awards
2024
Best Sport-Themed Promotional Charitable Events Facilitator 2024 – Orange County
OC Cares, ABC 7
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AI: Acquisition International
July 2024
Most Influential Charitable Sports Business Owner 2024 (USA): Carol Walsh
Global Health & Pharma Magazine
Founded in 2016, Tennis Serves Others, a 501c3, brings tennis ladies together to lead, play and to serve using our passion for tennis to help others in need. Throughout the year we play tennis to help local charitable groups and individuals who need assistance. Since 2016 we have raised more than $500,000 touching the lives of many. We hope to grow, adding more members and chapters. To learn more, please visit our website.
City Lifestyle
Carol Walsh moved to Laguna Niguel with her husband and young family just nine years ago, but the native San Diegan has made a big difference in the lives of many since then. A volunteer for philanthropic causes for as long as she can remember, Walsh fosters animals and has been a board member of several charitable causes.
Greet Coto De Caza
June, 2023
Local Coto de Caza residents and avid tennis players, Santiago and Patty Rydelski, generously hosted their 3rd Tennis Serves Others (TSO) Gala on Saturday, June 3rd. The event honored the sponsors, donors, and beneficiary representatives of Wimbledon, TSO’s annual fundraising tennis tournament and gala. The tennis tournament was held one week later, on June 10th.
E-News
May, 2022
From Kelley McBride, CEO of Tennis Serves Others: “It is truly an honor to live out our mission statement in all that we do: play tennis, serve others, love all. As an organization that is young and growing, we feel honored to make an impact in the lives of those we serve. Because of a little yellow ball and in five short years, women playing tennis on the courts of Orange County, Calif., have made a difference in the lives of teen parents, deployed military, homeless, wounded warriors, special needs athletes, orphans in Africa and Peru, domestic abuse victims, families who lost children to pediatric cancer, youth tennis players and therapeutic animals. Our impact is felt and it is humbling and gratifying to know that in addition to playing a sport we love, we are changing lives.”
Parenting OC
May, 2022
How do you give back?
In 2016, I created Tennis Serves Others (ISO), a nonprofit organization that unites tennis ladies to serve those in need. Within two years, we had 140 members and multiple chapters with tennis ladies from all over Southern California participating in our events. We have donated thousands of shoes to the homeless and children in need through Tennis SOLES for Others, organized and hosted dozens of tennis events, which in total have raised and distributed more than $275,000 to local charities such as…
Shoutout LA
May, 2020
Hi Carol, can you tell us about an impactful book you’ve read and why you liked it or what impact it had on you?
It’s tough to choose just one book that has positively impacted and guided me, but two books come to mind: The Four Agreements by Luis Ruiz and The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners by Jack Hawley. They both have had a powerful impact on me and continue to guide me today. The Four Agreements conveys a simple, but powerful, message to better your life by abiding by the following agreements (below).
TennisOnline.Net
June, 2017
Tennis Serves Others was founded in 2016 by like-minded women who loved tennis and wanted promote charitable activities that would benefit a wide range of both individuals non-profit groups in the local Los Angeles community and around the world. The organization currently has 100 members in its Orange County and Los Angeles Chapters. Tennis Serves Others is supported by volunteer members and donations solicited from the public. They are planning to continue to expand. Their goal is to inspire and unite more women in the values of playing tennis and serving the community.
Voyage LA
April, 2018
Carol, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
Tennis Serves Others started in January 2016. It started from an inspiration and a desire to help others. Utilizing my past experience and with the help of tennis friends whom believed in the concept, we worked together to form an organization, a new type of “tennis team”, to use our passion for tennis to serve others. We were fortunate to have the support of Public Law Firm and Darren Guttenberg from Latham and Watkins, who worked with me to write the bylaws creating a solid structure for TSO.
CTA Spotlight: Tennis Serves Others
November, 2018
Tennis is a game that gives its players competition, confidence and purpose. But what can those players, who received so much from the game, give in return Giving back was what one group of women set out to do, and in 2016, Tennis Serves Others (TSO) was born. “We had been getting together so much to play tennis and win,” said TSO Founder and CEO Carol Walsh. “and we thought, well why don’t we give back?”
Great Non Profits
November, 2016
Our first annual gala and tennis tournament in May 2016 allowed us to give $10,000 to Wings for Crossover, a non-profit dedicated to helping (through sustainable food and educational opportunity) the orphans and former slave children in the Lake Volta region of Ghana. Our Tennis Soles for Others program has provided hundreds of gently used tennis shoes to organizations such as Tijuana Christian Mission, Friendship Shelter, Mary’s Kitchen, OC Rescue Mission and Laura’s House to name just a few. Our Round Robins have allowed us to donate money and other charitable items to organizations such as Ronald McDonald House, CHOC Hospital, Orangewood Foundation, Meals on Wheels and Green Dog Foundation amongst many others.