The Texas Tennis Coaches Association recently announced that Brownwood’s Sammie Courington will join Uvalde’s Bobby Kramer and Tim Calhoun of DeRidder, Louisiana as inductees into the 2022 TTCA Hall of Fame.

The induction ceremony will be held Friday, December 9, at the TTCA Convention Banquet at Horseshoe Bay Resort. Registration for the convention, scheduled for December 9-11, will be available at texastenniscoaches.com beginning August 1. Tickets to the Friday Convention Banquet can be purchased for $35 by contacting the TTCA.

Courington is a volunteer tennis coach at Howard Payne University in Brownwood. He has coached in a variety of high schools, including Corpus Christi Ray (1977-1980), Brownwood High School (1980-2003), and Round Rock Stony Point (2003-2005). Courington then coached at Pflugerville Hendrickson from 2005-2009, and returned to Brownwood in 2011 as an assistant tennis coach before retirement. He was honored by the TTCA in 1992 as the Class 4A Coach of the Year, and was selected as the 1994 Texas State Junior High Coach of the Year.

Kramer coached tennis at Dobie High School in the Pasadena ISD, as well as serving for two years as head girls basketball coach. Among the accomplishments, Kramer’s tennis teams produced seven state champions, eight state finalists, five regional finalists, and over 35 district champions. He has been inducted into the Dobie High School Hall of Fame.

Calhoun retired in December 2018 and currently serves as group fitness instructor at Lake Charles, Louisiana. He was a non-faculty volunteer tennis coach at DeRidder (Louisiana) High School. From 1988-1990, Calhoun was the men’s and women’s assistant coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Calhoun was the men’s and women’s tennis coach at Lamar University from 1991-1994. He was the head coach, from a period of 1995-2018, at Lamar Consolidated, Cypress Ridge High School, Eagle Mountain Saginaw High School, James E. Katy Taylor, and Fort Bend Ridge Point High School. He was the TTCA president from 2008-2010. Among his accolades, Calhoun was elected the 2011 Houston Area Coach of the Year, and was inducted into the 2010 Cypress-Fairbanks Wall of Fame.

A Hall of Fame committee selected the honorees from a statewide list of nominations.

The mission of the TTCA, headquartered in Bryan, Texas, is to encourage and develop tennis as part of the curriculum and athletic programs in public and private schools in the state of Texas.