Breaking Down Border Walls With Tennis Balls (with BYTE's Charlie Cutler)(Ep. 12)

The US/Mexico border is a very polarizing and divisive topic in our country right now. While many people may have varying opinions regarding the policies that dictate the region, I'm sure we could all agree that bringing tennis to underprivileged kids there is an amazing thing! That's exactly what Charlie Cutler's organization called the Border Youth Tennis Exchange (BYTE) does...and more!

Charlie grew up as a top 100 nationally ranked junior player in the Portland, Oregon area. He played his college tennis at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri where he led his team to a Division 3 National Championship in 2008. Following a short professional career on the Futures and Challenger circuits, Charlie got his Master's degree from the University of San Francisco in International Studies with a concentration in Human Rights. While researching border asylum cases for his thesis project, he was inspired to bring tennis to the region for kids that would otherwise never have had the opportunity to learn our wonderful sport. And thus, BYTE was born!

Border Youth Tennis Exchange (BYTE) is a bi-national initiative that provides after-school tennis training and academic programs to youth on both sides of the US/Mexico border. BYTE is part of the USTA Foundation's 2017 Capacity Building Cohort and the only National Junior Tennis & Learning chapter to operate internationally, at four sites in Nogales Arizona and Nogales Sonora (MX). Besides offering innovative, tech based program to under-resourced communities in the US/Mexico border region BYTE also strives to connect its student-athletes across the border through mirror curriculums, shared projects, and cross-border events.

ABC's More in Common series did a feature on BYTE...watch it here! --> https://www.facebook.com/MoreInCommon/videos/2179039479045426/

BYTE's Facebook --> https://www.facebook.com/bytetennis/

Explore BYTE's website for more videos and information --> http://bytetennis.org

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