Former Taylor coach Calhoun named to TTCA Hall of Fame

By Tyler Tyre
Posted 7/22/22

Former Taylor head tennis coach and UTSA assistant head coach Tim Calhoun will be inducted to the Texas Tennis Coaches Association 2022 Class, the association announced this past week.

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Former Taylor coach Calhoun named to TTCA Hall of Fame

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Former Taylor head tennis coach and UTSA assistant head coach Tim Calhoun will be inducted to the Texas Tennis Coaches Association 2022 Class, the association announced this past week.

Calhoun, who retired in 2018, currently serves as a group fitness instructor. He was a non-faculty volunteer tennis coach at DeRidder (Louisiana) High School . From1988-199, he served as an assistant coach at 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 and Fort Bend Ridge High School along with Taylor 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. 

Joining Calhoun as inductees in the 2022 Hall of Fame Class are Sammie Courington and Bobby Kramer.

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 20005-2009, and returned to Brownwood in 2011 as an assistant tennis coach before retirement. He was honored by the TTCA in 1992 as the Class 4ACoach 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. 

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

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