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1948 tennis team (not all members shown): Schwartz is back row, second from left.
Alan G. Schwartz Alan Schwartz combined his passion for tennis with his career. In 1969, he founded Tennis Corporation of America, building the Midtown Tennis Club, the world’s largest indoor tennis club. Schwartz has served as chair, president, and CEO of the United States Tennis Association and has sat on the boards of the Tennis Industry Association, Tennis Channel, International Tennis Federation, and Davis Cup Committee. In 2003, Tennis Industry named him Man of the Year. In 2009, Schwartz was honored by the Tennis Industry Hall of Fame, and in 2013,
he was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Hall of Fame. At Andover, Schwartz’s athletic successes were numerous. He earned six varsity letters, captained the 1948 tennis team, swam with the 1948 swim team (2008 Andover Athletics Hall of Honor inductees), and was awarded the Yale Bowl at Commencement. He swam and played tennis at the varsity level at Yale and captained the tennis team his senior year. As an amateur player, Schwartz won eight national championships and seven Illinois state championships. At the
Maccabiah Games in Israel, he won two gold medals and a silver. A notable accomplishment in Schwartz’s long-standing relationship with Andover is his implementation of the successful “Flyback Program,” which brings talented minority students who have been admitted but have not yet committed—and their families—to visit the Academy to encourage their enrollment. He and his wife, Roslyn, live near Chicago. They have four children (including Steven ’77) and eight grandchildren (including Alex ’07). 16
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