Thank you for everything, Ann Brady. You will be truly missed.
The Mississippi Tennis Association announces that Executive Director Ann Brady will be retiring this spring.
Ann has been the face of MS tennis for 20 years. She was hired in February of 1995 by then MTA President Gaines Dyer to take the helm as the new Executive Director. She hit the ground running and has never looked back. She has served with eleven MTA Board Presidents. Over her 20 years, her staff has grown to six full time staff, three part time staff and Southern’s Tennis Service Representative works out of the MS office as well. The office started out on County Line Road in Jackson, MS, they moved into the historic Fondren District in 1997 and bought their present day office in Fondren in 2003.
In addition to serving MS, Ann has served two terms as Chair of the ED group at Southern and has served on the Community Development, Diversity and League committees for Southern as well.
When Ann was diagnosed with breast cancer, the style and grace she had was a true inspiration to many. Her staff was amazed with her strength, courage and determination to beat it, and that is exactly what she did! She showed everyone what Faith, Courage and Determination can do!
The highlight of Ann’s “tennis playing career” was being the captain of the 4.5 Women’s team that won the National Championship in Tucson, AZ in 1990. Ann began playing tennis in 1978 when her kids were little, she wasn’t working and she was looking for something to do. Now that her career is almost over, she plans to get out on the courts more often, travel with her husband, Dan and play with her grandchildren, Jesse and Will.
