Scholarships

USTA Serves is the National Charitable Foundation of the USTA.  It is a not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to improving the quality of life among our nation’s youth.  USTA Serves mission is to support, monitor and promote programs that enhance the lives of underserved youth through the integration of tennis and education.  A goal of USTA Serves is to encourage children to pursue their goals and highest dreams by succeeding in school and becoming responsible citizens.

Scholarships Offered

Each year, USTA Serves awards scholarships to deserving youngsters who have participated in United States Tennis Association (USTA) and/or other organized youth tennis programs.  The following scholarships are offered:

• The Marian Wood Baird College Scholarship
• The Dwight F. Davis Memorial Scholarship
• The Dwight Mosley Scholarship Award
• The USTA Serves College Education Scholarship
• The Eve Kraft Education & College Scholarship
• The USTA Serves College Textbook Scholarship
• The USTA Serves Summer of Service

USTA Rhode Island Judy Brucks Memorial Scholarship

Open to ANY Rhode Island High School tennis player. You may be a varsity or junior varsity player to apply. We award 1 boys scholarship each spring and 1 girls scholarship each fall at the respective tennis banquets. If you are a GIRL playing on a BOYS team, you would still apply for the GIRLS scholarship in the fall.

Application

Download (PDF): RIScholarship

Scholarship Donations are both Welcome and Appreciated!

Make Checks Payable to: USTA Rhode Island/Judy Brucks Memorial Scholarship
Mailed to: PO Box 462, Greenville, Rhode Island 02828

Judy Anne (Troll) Brucks: 1957 – 2008
Nurse Practitioner and Competitive Tennis Player

Judy Anne (Troll) Brucks, 51, of Taylor Road, Foxboro, died on Monday, November 3, 2008 at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston following a brief illness. She was the wife of Jonathan L. Brucks, founder and president of New Age Technologies, Inc. in Attleboro, to whom she was married on February 14, 1991.

Born in Warwick, Rhode Island on July 25, 1957, she was the daughter of Joseph and Yolanda “Lonnie” (Ventura) Troll both of Hadley Massachusetts. She resided in Foxboro since 1991, previously resided in the West Roxbury section of Boston and was raised and educated in Hadley where she was a graduate of Hopkins Academy.

Her passions extended well beyond her professional life and most notably encompassed gourmet cooking, quilting, reading, boating and most importantly competitive tennis. She was a phenomenal captain of six competitive tennis teams with two of the teams reaching the sectionals for the North East USTA and earned second place.

Her love of tennis and her devotion to her team is best expressed in a quote by one of her teammates: “Before Judy, it was just tennis. But after she brought us all together and formed a team, it became a truly significant part of our lives.”

She will be remembered as intelligent, caring and generous person, who was dearly loved by her family and friends whom will miss her greatly.

A leader in the community and the nucleus of her loving family, in addition to her husband of 17 years and her parents, she leaves two daughters: Kaitlyn E. Palmer of East Hampton, Massachusetts and Natalee J. Brucks at home in Foxboro; a sister: Diane Snow of The Villages, Florida and several extended family members, numerous friends and cherished colleagues.

Scholarship Winners

School Year	Boy’s Scholarship	Girl’s Scholarship
2006/2007	Jonathan Burke	Elizabeth Harrington
	South Kingstown HS: $500	Westerly HS: $500
2007/2008	Aaron Carey	Missy Ferry
	South Kingstown HS: $500	Mt St Charles Academy: $500
2008/2009	Timothy Ryan	Emily Pietrzak
	Narragansett HS: $1,000	Narragansett HS: $1,000
2009/2010	Andrew Shumate	Taylor McEldowney
	South Kingstown HS; $1,000	Mt St Charles Academy: $1,000
2010/2011	Kyle Abbate	Julia Chretian
	Cumberland HS: $1,000	Coventry HS: $1,000
2011/2012	Tim Puterio	Mary-Catherine Stockman
	South Kingstown HS: $1,000	Prout HS: $1,000
2012/2013	Michael Paiva	Amanda Pitocco
	Smithfield HS: $1,000	LaSalle HS: $1,000
2013/2014	Eugene Fachon	Evelyn Miller
	East Greenwich HS: $1,000	Smithfield HS: $1,000
2014/2015	Nick Lecours	Gabrielle LaFond
	Chariho HS: $1,000	North Smithfield HS: $1,000
2015/2016	Justin Jackson	Alyssa Fletcher
	Saint Raphael Academy: $1,000	Saint Raphael Academy: $1,000
2016/2017	Luke Eller	Sydney Cardoza
	East Greenwich HS: $1,000	Coventry HS: $1,000
2017/2018	Steven Hey	Lauren Fortier
	Lasalle Academy: $1,000	Smithfield HS: $1,000
2018/2019	Jacob Fernandes	Serena Gaskin
	Coventry: $1,000	Saint Raphael Academy: $1,000
2019/2020	Liam Gagnon	Alexis Brenner
	South Kingstown HS: $1,000	Barrington HS: $1,000
2020/2021	Covid – No Winner	Hannah O’Brien
		LaSalle Academy: $1,000
2021/2022	Ryan Estus	Lindsey Frisina
	South Kingstown: $1,000	LaSalle Academy: $1,000