The USTA today announced Team Southern's roster for the World Team Tennis Junior National Championships. The event will be hosted by Billie Jean King and played at the Barnes Family Tennis Center in San Diego, CA from August 19-22, 2004. This marks the first year that the USTA Southern Section will send a team to the event, which has been held for several years.
The team below will be coached by Joe Kroh, from Louisville, KY. Kroh has been a Zonals coach for several years and his teams at St. X in Louisville have won the state high school championship multiple times. The selection committee has chosen two players from the 18s division and one player from the 16s to compete in this years championships.
| Boys | Girls | | Brad Clinard - High Point, NC | Elizabeth Googe - Knoxville, TN | | Scott Collins - Brentwood, TN | Lauren Strasburger - Brentwood, TN | | Nicholas Spinazze - Shreveport, LA | Lauren Meier - Woodstock, GA | |
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"We were very excited to have so many great players apply for a spot on the team in just our first year," said Mary Lou Hambrick, Chair of the High Performance Committee for the USTA Southern Section. "I'd like to personally thank everyone who applied, and I hope that this is the first of many years of sending a team to this event."