Coach Lisa Thomas launched the Pasadena-based Move Your Feet Tennis Foundation (MYFTF) seven years ago, because as a young woman growing up in Chicago, she had been impacted by a similar organization, in which tennis players taught kids in the community how to play.
“That was such a substantial time in my life,” Thomas said. “I feel like I wouldn’t have been the person that I became without that start. My intention is always to give back and to give the opportunity that I had to as many kids as I can.”
Thomas played both tennis and basketball in high school and college, at which time she was drafted by the first professional basketball league in the United States, the Women’s Professional Basketball League, where she played from 1979 to 1982. In 2018, she was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame — the same year she started Move Your Feet. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 