Ed Wolfarth Named USTA Eastern Section Tennis Man of the Year
The USTA Eastern Section has named Ed Wolfarth of Syosset, N.Y. as its 2012 Leslie J. FitzGibbon Tennis Man of the Year at the Annual Eastern Section Awards Dinner, the evening’s highest honor. The Leslie J. FitzGibbon Tennis Man of the Year designation is awarded to a male USTA Eastern volunteer in recognition of long and outstanding service to tennis in the Section.
Wolfarth, who serves the LI Regional Board as Grievance Committee Chair, certainly fits that bill. Wolfarth did not learn to play tennis until he was 28, when he was teaching physical education at Queens College and asked to add tennis to the curriculum. He later became a top-ranked tournament player, a winning high school coach and a highly regarded teaching pro.
Wolfarth was a top 10 player in the USTA Eastern Men’s 35s and the Tennis Director at Old Westbury Country Club. In the fall of 1994, he coached the Cold Spring High School girls to the Nassau County Championship. The following spring, he led the Roslyn High School boys’ team to a county title.
Last year, he and a team of Eastern players won the Atlantic Coast 65 Cup in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., defeating teams from USTA Mid-Atlantic, Middle States and New England.
Wolfarth currently teaches physical education and sport science at Queens College and Hofstra University, and is the tennis director at Meadowbrook Pointe Athletic Club & Spa. In 2012, he received the Hy Zausner Lifetime Achievement in Tennis Award from the USTA Eastern Section Long Island Region.
