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  • Frances Tiafoe gives back to College Park youth tennis center via charitable fund

    Mar 24, 2025 | cnsmaryland.org | Kate Yanchulis

    At age 4, Frances Tiafoe began playing tennis. At age 27, he is one of the world's most talented and successful players, winner of three ATP titles and a semifinalist at the U.S. Open in September 2024. Tiafoe hasn't forgotten where he grew up - at the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC) in College Park. In 2023, Tiafoe launched the Frances Tiafoe Fund with the United States Tennis Association Foundation. In April 2024, the fund directed $50,000 to the JTCC as one of its first gifts.

  • As philanthropists, some athletes rely on fans, sponsors while others share their wealth

    Mar 24, 2025 | cnsmaryland.org | Kate Yanchulis

    Professional athletes fund their charities one of two ways - with their own money or with someone else's. Some philanthropy experts emphasize that charity is the same whether funds come from an athlete who started a charity or from another source, be that fans, sponsors or a professional team or league.

  • More than 60 pro athletes in the D.C. area founded charities in the last 10 years

    Mar 24, 2025 | cnsmaryland.org | Kate Yanchulis

    At least 60 athletes who played on Washington, D.C. and Baltimore-area professional sports teams over the last decade also established nonprofit organizations, a Povich Center analysis of tax filings found.

  • From military families to chronic disease, athletes choose charitable causes that hit close to home

    Mar 24, 2025 | cnsmaryland.org | Kate Yanchulis

    Golfer Billy Hurley III is one of a kind. In 2016, Hurley won the Quicken Loans National at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. That set him apart as the only graduate of a U.S. Military Service Academy - in Hurley's case, the U.S. Naval Academy - ever to win on the PGA Tour. That same year, Hurley, who played in 179 events on the PGA Tour from 2006 to 2020, took another important step.

  • When starting a charity is too much, some pro athletes join a non-profit team

    Mar 24, 2025 | cnsmaryland.org | Kate Yanchulis

    BALTIMORE - Two hours before gametime at Camden Yards in the 2024 season, Baltimore Orioles pitcher Tyler Wells stood in the dugout and spoke quietly about a family tragedy. When he was 4 years old, Wells lost his mother to leukemia. The death of a parent as a small child has given Wells special empathy for those impacted by cancer. "I think that's something that really hits close to home," Wells said.

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RT @Simone_Biles: @Riley_Gaines_ You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be…

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RT @eden_laase: Congrats to @Lindsay_Schnell, who has been a champion of women’s sports for so long. I’m so lucky to have been a finalist…

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RT @KDTrey5: I love that the @wnba is back. Wishing everyone a healthy season. Let’s go