USTA Names Outstanding Facility Award Winners
Posted: August 27, 2025 in Suppliers
USTA
FLUSHING, N.Y. – The USTA announces that Princeton University was named the Featured Facility of the Year, the highest honor bestowed by the USTA on a tennis facility. Princeton was one of 45 winners of the USTA’s annual Outstanding Facility Awards program, which recognizes excellence in the construction and/or renovation of tennis facilities throughout the country. All 45 recipients were honored at an awards reception held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York as part of the 2025 US Open.
Princeton unveiled its new Racquet and Recreation Fieldhouse in November 2024. The new 180,000 square-foot facility includes 18 total tennis courts (nine outdoor; nine indoor) and not only serves as the home of Princeton’s varsity men’s and women’s tennis programs, but also is a hub of campus and community recreation. In addition to the 18 courts, which comprises the Si Qin Family Indoor Tennis Center and the Cordish Family Outdoor Tennis Center, the facility includes athletic performance and sports medicine facilities, a student-athlete lounge, team locker rooms and coaches’ offices, as well as a recreational fitness center. Beyond the impact on the university community, the facility hosts a number of USTA events for both juniors and adults and Princeton’s tennis coaches offer clinics and other community programming.
“Princeton University is a great example of the many ways investing in world-class tennis facilities can create long-lasting and meaningful impacts on a community,” said Theodore Loehrke, Managing Director, Section Partnerships, USTA. “Facilities like this one are integral in the USTA’s mission of growing tennis to inspire healthier people and communities everywhere. We are proud to recognize all 45 of these facilities for their continuing efforts to enhance lives through the sport of tennis.”
Facilities were judged on the following criteria: overall layout and adaptation to site; excellence of court surface and lights; ease of maintenance; accommodations for players, spectators and press/officials; aesthetics; graphics (including the use of signs and landscaping); amenities such as casual seating for spectators, food services and social areas; and the facilities’ participation in grassroots tennis programs.
Nominated facilities were voted on in the following categories: Public Courts that are either small tennis centers with 2-11 courts or large tennis centers with 12 or more courts; Private Facilities that offer both USTA and public programming designed to help grow tennis (small: 2-11 courts; large: 12 or more courts); and Educational Institutions such as colleges, universities, public and private grade schools, middle schools, or high schools. A new category, Innovation, was added this year to recognize facilities that have been particularly innovative when it comes to delivering tennis. All 2025 award winners will receive a wall plaque and an all-weather sign, which can be mounted at the facility.
The 2025 USTA Outstanding Facility Award winners are:
Public Courts: Small Tennis Centers (2 to 11 courts)
Gulph Mills JKST (King of Prussia, Pa.)
Henry J. Calamari Memorial Tennis Center (Slidell, La.)
Ida Lee Park Tennis Center (Leesburg, Va.)
John & Fay Menard YMCA Tennis Center (Eau Claire, Wis.)
Kohler Sports Core (Kohler, Wis.)
Northampton Tennis & Fitness Club (Richboro, Pa.)
Tonaquint Tennis Center (St. George, Utah)
Valley Athletic Club (Olympia, Wash.)
Public Courts: Large Tennis Centers (12 or more courts)
Balboa Tennis Club (San Diego)
City of Palm Beach Gardens Tennis and Pickleball Center (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.)
Rome Tennis Center at Berry College (Rome, Ga.)
Sportime Randall’s Island (New York)
Steamboat Tennis and Pickleball Center (Steamboat Springs, Colo.)
Yarbrough Tennis Center (Auburn, Ala.)
Small Private Facilities (2-11 courts)
Central PA Tennis Center (Williamsport, Pa.)
Compass Pointe Tennis Club (Leland, N.C.)
East Brunswick Racquet Club (East Brunswick, N.J.)
Ellington Racquet Club (Ellington, Conn.)
Grand Rapids Racquet + Fitness (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Greensburg Racquet Club (Greensburg, Pa.)
Hendersonville Racquet Club (Hendersonville, N.C.)
Hobe Sound Tennis Center (Hobe Sound, Fla.)
Legacy Racquet and Fitness Club (Mountain Home, Ark.)
Palmira Tennis Club (Bonita Springs, Fla.)
PEAK Racquet Club (Missoula, Mont.)
Pelican Bay Foundation (Naples, Fla.)
River Trails Tennis Center (Arlington Heights, Ill.)
South Towns Tennis & Pickleball (Orchard Park, N.Y.)
Wisconsin Athletic Club-Lake Country (Hartland, Wis.)
Large Private Facilities (12 or more courts)
Brookhaven Country Club (Farmers Branch, Texas)
Evergreen Racquet Club (Bloomington, Ill.)
Michael D. Case Tennis Center (Tulsa, Okla.)
Overland Park Racquet Club (Overland Park, Kan.)
Sportime Port Washington (Port Washington, N.Y.)
The Club at Quail Ridge (Boynton Beach, Fla.)
Wheaton Sport Center (Wheaton, Ill.)
Educational Institutions
Albuquerque Academy Racquet Center (Albuquerque, N.M.)
City of Laredo Tennis Complex at Texas A&M International University (Laredo, Texas)
Dillingham Tennis Complex (Honolulu)
Ed Yarbrough Tennis Complex (Jasper, Ind.)
Noblesville Millers Tennis Complex (Noblesville, Ind.)
Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.)*
Temple University Tennis Complex (Philadelphia)
Innovative
Court 16 Downtown Brooklyn (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Court 16 Philadelphia (Philadelphia)
*2025 Featured Facility of the Year
