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Teenage quartet breaks the net, making tennis accessible to all. By Naya Seth Photo courtesy of Overhead Opportunities
have important jobs within the organization.
Logan is the CEO, and he oversees the organization to uniors at Brophy College ensure that everything runs Prep—Logan Phillips, Arin smoothly. Naren is the CAO, and Gopakumar, Ryan Zerbib, he supervises all of the clinics, and Naren Gudavalli—have not monitoring who will be attending only been acing tennis courts for and the volunteer coaches. Arin is approximately seven years but the COO, and he handles reaching also acing community service out to other organizations with their nonprofit organization, Overhead Opportunities, founded and schools to help Overhead about a year and a half ago. Their Opportunities grow. Ryan is the mission is to make tennis available CFO, and he manages all of the finances, including applying for to everybody! grants and creating a GoFundMe. With personal understanding of YOUTH CLINICS SERVING the high expenses involved in UP SKILLS AND FUN tennis lessons and equipment, Held most Fridays from 3:30 they aimed to serve prospective p.m. to 5 p.m. at Xavier College tennis players who found these Prep—who kindly donated their costs prohibitive. The boys courts—these clinics run for most garnered support from several of the year, excluding summer, organizations, including The and welcome players for single Loyola Academy, Xavier College or multiple sessions. Registration Prep, the Challenge Foundation, and coaching application forms and USTA Southwest, and secured a $1,000 grant from USTA are available on their website: overheadopportunities.org. If you for equipment. have had some tennis experience Currently, their goals are to expand before and want to help out with throughout Arizona and to new coaching, you can submit a form, states, including California, Texas, and New York. Additionally, when also available through their website.
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they go to college, they hope to start a few subchapters specific to the area that they are in. Even though all of the co-founders work together to make Overhead Opportunities possible, they each
The teenagers love tennis because it is a fast-paced sport, and if you win a match, it feels good because you know it is due to the effort that you put into it. They wanted to share this love of tennis with others.
Throughout their time coaching, the co-founders have developed several favorite memories.
MAKING AN IMPACT One day, an email from the Challenge Foundation reported kids trying to play tennis during recess. This, alongside other cherished memories like a rewarding Halloween event and securing weekly court time at a private facility through Xavier, affirmed the tangible impact of their initiative.
In their journey, these young men learned the power of perseverance and witnessed the profound impact of their efforts on others’ lives. Their advice to other young changemakers: Put yourself out there. Numerous people would love to assist you, and relentless pursuit can lead you to unimaginable heights.
Naya Seth, 13 years old, loves to read and write. She is a member of National LEND A HAND Junior Honor Support their mission by donating Society and to their GoFundMe, enabling them National Charity to purchase more equipment for League and their students, at gofundme.com/f/ enjoys participating in various philanthropy activities. overhead-opportunities.
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