(Taken from Oglethorpe University website)
ATLANTA, Ga. - Peter Howell, Oglethorpe University assistant athletics director and head men’s and women’s tennis coach, has been selected for induction into the Georgia Tennis Hall of Fame. Founded by the Georgia Tennis Association, the Georgia Tennis Hall of Fame honors those whose excellence both on and off the tennis courts have brought recognition and esteem to themselves and tennis in Georgia.
Howell has over thirty-five years of both playing and teaching
tennis experience that include holding the #5 national ranking by
the United States Tennis Association (USTA) for six consecutive
years and being named the Georgia Pro Tennis Player-of-the-Year
four times. The men’s tennis team he guides at Oglethorpe
University has been ranked regionally in the Atlantic South
Division among NCAA Division III schools in each of the past three
seasons.
In 1977 Howell founded the Georgia Professional Tennis Association,
a grass-roots formation of tennis professionals in Georgia
dedicated to improving the standards of tennis in the community.
Since its creation, the Georgia Professional Tennis Association has
grown to over 300 members and has become the model for similarly
founded organizations across the country.
A graduate of Vanderbilt University, Howell starred for three
seasons for the Commodores on the tennis courts before injury
sidelined him for his senior year. As a junior, Howell was named
captain of the team and earned Most Valuable Player honors.
Howell comes from a family steeped in tennis tradition and, in
1964, the Howell family was selected as the Tennis
Family-of-the-Year by the Southern Tennis Association. Peter will
join his brother, Richard Howell, who was inducted in 1993 and his
mother, Caroline Howell, who was inducted in 2000, as a member of
the Georgia Tennis Hall of Fame at induction ceremonies scheduled
for May 2010.
“It’s a terrific honor to be recognized by the tennis
community in Georgia as having made a difference,” said
Howell, who, in his joking nature, added, “it shows that good
things happen if you live long enough!”
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