Meet the 2025-26 USTA National Wheelchair Committee

Jason Harnett (USTA National staff) is in his ninth year as the USTA's director of wheelchair tennis, beginning as a USTA National coach in 1998 before joining the staff in October 2016. He is a five-time Paralympic Games coach, four-time Parapan American Games Coach, nine-time World Team Cup Champion as the captain (Captained 3 different teams: Men's, Quad, Juniors). Harnett played varsity men's tennis at the University of Washington, Seattle from 1990-1994, captaining the team as a senior and serving as a men's athletic department representative. He was introduced to wheelchair tennis in 1985 as a 13 year old member of the Racquet Club of Irvine, Ca. (the original host site for the US Open for wheelchair tennis). He lives in Orlando with his wife, three children, six dogs and three cats.

Evan Enquist (USTA National staff) is the former head wheelchair tennis coach for the University of Alabama Adapted Athletics, and served seven years as a USTA National (Wheelchair) & Sectional Committee Member (Southern). He has 19 years of coaching experience at the high school, college (DI and DIII), wheelchair, and local adult and junior play levels. Enquist's education and research background is in human performance and exercise physiology, and he lives in Orlando with wife Laura and their two dogs, Kendall and Harper.

Jennifer Edmonson (Southern) is serving her fourth term as the chair of the USTA National Wheelchair Committee, and is also in her eighth term on the USTA Southern Wheelchair Committee. She has been the tournament director of the Cajun Classic (ITF Super Series, USTA National Level 1) for 15 years, and was the tournament director of the US Open Wheelchair Championships for two years. She has been a physical therapist for over 30 years, specializing in rehab and pediatric therapy.

Kylie Hornbeck (NorCal) is serving her third term on the USTA Wheelchair Committee, and this is her first term as Vice Chair. She was the tournament director of the Cougar Open in Houston for eight years, and is the co-founder of Bay Area Wheelchair Tennis in the San Francisco/San Jose area. She played tennis for Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and specializes in engineering project management and operations for tech and infrastructure projects.

Carmen Bond (Missouri Valley) has been the executive director of the Oklahoma Tennis Foundation (OKTF) since 2018. Her work starts with love: for people, for tennis, and for making a difference. Her enthusiasm helps raise and distribute funds for tennis that support individuals and organizations all over Oklahoma, with over 5,000 lives impacted in 2024 alone from the grants & scholarships given by OKTF. Bond was a 2020 USTA Missouri Valley Gold Star Award Recipient, and has served on the USTA Missouri Valley Diversity and Inclusion Committee, USTA Oklahoma Board, as a USTA Oklahoma NW Quadrant representative, and has spent four years on USTA Oklahoma Grievance Committee. She lives in Edmond with her husband Donnie and their two daughters, Ellie Grace and Hattie. 

John Brown (Southern) serves as the area director of USTA Mississippi's East Central area.

Jessie Cloy (Southern) is currently serving her first term on the USTA National Wheelchair Committee. She is a four-time Paralympian in track and field, competing at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics through the 2012 London Paralympics, winning seven medals. Cloy is the competition manager of operations at Move United, which provides national leadership and opportunities for individuals with disabilities to develop independence, confidence and fitness through participation in sports.

Lizzie Conti (Eastern) is serving her first term on a USTA committee. She played NAIA tennis at Indiana Wesleyan University, and is in her third year with the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) as the Competitive Manager - DII, DIII, NAIA, JUCO, and Wheelchair tennis. Conti is from Kalamazoo, Mich., but currently lives in Buffalo, N.Y.

Thomas Dodd (New England) has served on the USTA National Wheelchair Tennis Committee since October 2019. He has played wheelchair tennis since 2008 and has been participating in various adaptive and wheelchair sports for more than 35 years. Dodd has served three terms on the USTA New England Wheelchair/Adaptive Tennis Committee and is the founder and president of the South Coast Wheelchair Tennis Foundation and is a junior wheelchair regional provider.

Greg Edwards (Southern) is the committee chairman of the USTA Alabama JuniorTeamTennis Committee, and is in his fourth year as the JTT coordinator in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He's serving his fifth term as a Tuscaloosa Tennis Association Board member, and is a TTA volunteer coordinating tennis activities for Eagles Wings and United Cerebral Palsy mentally- and physically-challenged adults. Edwards is a tournament staff volunteer for Cajun Classic Wheelchair Tournament (2 years), Alabama Open Wheelchair Tournament (3 years), USTA Alabama Adult League State Championships (30+ events in 4 years). He has captained and played in local USTA adult leagues (3.0) for seven years, and is a retired U.S. Army officer (24 years) and a retired defense industry equipment specialist contractor (17 years).

Brendan Fitzpatrick (Northern) is serving his first term on the USTA National Wheelchair Committee, and is in his second term as a junior wheelchair regional provider for USTA Northern. He has been a high school coach for 14 years and is a behavior specialist in an elementary school. Fitzpatrick has been married for five years and has two sons.

Myra Grossman (Eastern) is a first-year pharmacy student and is involved in sports pharmacy. She is from Boston, and is passionate about making sports more inclusive for everyone.

Gabe Gutierrez (Texas) is serving his first term as a USTA National committee member, and is serving his second term as a USTA Texas committee member on the Wheelchair Tennis Committee. He has been the University of Houston (UH) Wheelchair Tennis head coach since 2018, and led his team to win the 2024 ITA Wheelchair National Championship, and was awarded 2024 ITA College Coach of the Year and 2024 USTA Best College Coach in Texas Tennis. Gutierrez is an alumnus of the UH mechanical engineering program.

Noel Jorgensen (Mid-Atlantic) has been the president of the Piedmont Area Tennis Association since 2021, and is the co-director of the PATA Wheelchair Open at Boars Head Sports Club. She has been the practice manager of Charlottesville Pathology Associates at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital for 19 years. A dedicated tennis player, she has played in USTA leagues since 2004, including mixed, combo, gender, and Tri-level in both 18+ and 40+, and is currently a 3.5 player.

Courtney Major (Southern) is a board member of Baton Rouge Wheelchair Tennis Association, an organization that runs the Cajun Classic Tournament. She has been a pediatric speech and language pathologist for the past 7 years. Major was born and raised in Baton Rouge, La., and loves traveling, reading, gardening, cooking, and spending time with family and friends.

Jean Merrill (Midwest) is serving her second term on the USTA Wheelchair Committee. Since 2018, she has worked as a director at the NCAA Office of Inclusion, focusing on disability and LGBTQ inclusion, and previously worked in NCAA academic and membership affairs. Merrill holds doctoral and master’s degrees in higher education and student affairs from Indiana University, and a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Hanover College, where she was a softball student-athlete. She lives in Indianapolis, Ind. with her wife Cindi and daughter Lou (4 years old).