APTA Volunteer of the Month – Suzanne Lanthier

Suzanne Lanthier – BIG PASSION, BIG CONTRIBUTION
Suzanne Lanthier recently moved to London. One of her friends, who doesn’t live in Canada, told her to enjoy Europe. Getting used to small-town living in London, Ontario (pop. 350,000), compared to the city of Toronto, has been easy in many respects but not having access to platform tennis tortures her. London does have an old single cement court, which is where Lanthier learned to play when she was 13 years old and a ‘real court’ with no heaters in need of some major TLC. Back then there wasn’t a hut, so the Lanthiers, along with the other 20 or so families who made up the LPTC, would tough it out in the frigid cold to watch or wait their turn. The members eventually got a hut put in, Lanthier magically “found” a net to replace the holey one, and the court has become somewhat usable. She is devising a plan to create a platform tennis club in London and, knowing Lanthier’s expeditiousness, the chances of it happening quickly and well are high………..[Click image below to read full article]

Source: Platform Tennis Magazine, Vol. 16 Issue 5, April-May 2015