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When Ryann Cutillo graduated from Wake Forest in 2012, her plans did not include tennis. The former blue chip recruit from New York had competed for the Demon Deacons for four years, but with no interest in pursuing professional tennis, she turned her attention to a career in sales. Yet the tennis connections she had made over the years ended up leading to her "dream job" as the Executive Director of the Johnny Mac Tennis Project in New York City.
Ryann Cutillo is in her Third Year Working with John McEnroe
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Hall of Fame tennis great John McEnroe founded a for-profit tennis academy on New York's Randall's Island in 2010, in partnership with Sportime, an operator of many tennis and fitness clubs in New York. A few years into that venture, McEnroe recognized a need for a non-profit entity, and the 501(c)(3) Johnny Mac Tennis Project was launched.
"Where the academy is located is next to East Harlem and the Bronx, which are some of the most underserved communities, and John wanted to make tennis more accessible in New York," said Cutillo, who is beginning her third year as JMTP's executive director. "We work with over 2,700 kids every single week, from schools in East Harlem and the Bronx, give them free tennis weekly."
