The Washington Tennis & Education Foundation (WTEF) 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.

WTEF’s goals are:
(1) to keep children off city streets and engaged in productive activities that instill self-pride and discipline;
(2) to provide opportunities for children to improve their academic performance and help them make choices that enrich rather than endanger their lives; and
(3) to provide opportunities for at-risk children to go to college and obtain academic and athletic scholarships. For those not college bound, WTEF helps them join the work force and make constructive life choices.

Click here to view WTEF's most recent newsletter.

Click here to view WTEF's 2006 Annual Report.

"It was an exciting day when I picked up my first tennis racquet, almost as exciting as when I received my B.A. from Williams last spring, and became the first person in my family to graduate from college."