David Ginsberg

Dave Ginsberg was born in Detroit, grew up in Flint and attended Grand Blanc High School, where he competed in basketball all four years. His junior season led to the 1963 Big 9 Championship. He went on to Central Michigan University, became a part of the basketball program as a student assistant, and was a member of three conference Championships (1965, 1966, and 1967). After graduating in 1968 from CMU, Ginsberg began a career in education that lasted until 2005 when he retired as the Principal of Flint Southwestern Academy in Flint, Michigan. Over six decades Ginsberg was involved with basketball and education at every level. He taught and coached at Leslie, Battle Creek Central, Grand Rapids Union, Swartz Creek, Flint Central, Traverse City St. Francis, Traverse City West, and Northport high schools, and had a 16-year stint as an assistant coach at Central Michigan University beginning in 1975. At CMU Dave assisted with four Mid-American Conference titles (1975, 1977, 1979, and 1987), and had the honor of attending the 1988 USA Olympic Trials in Colorado Springs as a representative of the CMU program and in support of one of CMU’s players, Dan Majerle, who went on to become the captain and leading scorer for the 1988 United States Olympic Team in Seoul, Korea.

Carrie Rose Goldman

Carrie Rose Goldman, born and raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, was a member of the Lahser High School Varsity tennis team playing the number one singles position in each of the three years she participated. She won the Class A State Singles Title in her junior and senior years and was the runner-up in her freshman year. From ages twelve to eighteen, she competed in United States Tennis Association (USTA) tennis tournaments across the country achieving a USTA national singles and doubles rankings in each of those years. As a sixteen-year-old, she reached a USTA national ranking of number 42 in singles and number 23 in doubles. In 1996, she was presented with the Hoxie Memorial Award by the USTA Southeastern Michigan District (for sportsmanship and accomplishments on and off the tennis court) and she was a nominee for the Michigan High School Athlete of the Year Award. Carrie earned an athletic scholarship to Boston University where she competed on the women’s tennis team for four years in both singles and doubles and served as co-captain of the team her senior year. She earned All-Conference Honors all four of her collegiate years and her team earned a berth to the Division I NCAA Championships in her sophomore, junior and senior years.

Michael Rosenberg

Michael Rosenberg is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI, he spent 13 years at the Detroit Free Press, eight as a columnist, receiving national recognition for his work. He has also written for some of the top papers in the country, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquiry. His work was featured in the 2005 edition of “The Best American Sports Writing” Michael has written several phenomenal stories, but one sticks out from the others. A 1994 sports page from the Michigan Daily talks about a Michigan football player who hurt his knee, but the player was not concerned about his knee, for he cried before every game because he thought the team might lose. Michael writes “he does not cry when his friends are killed but he cries only because he thought the team might lose. Michael learned an important lesson from this early in his career. “It’s not just getting the facts right, but that you’re taking the proper care” He has covered virtually every major sporting event, including nine Super Bowls and eight Olympics, and is the author of the critically acclaimed “War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest.” He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he served as editor in chief of The Michigan Daily. 

Adam Steinberg

Adam is in his ninth season coaching the University of Michigan Wolverines tennis program. The ITA Midwest Coach of the Year, Adam comes off a historic season with the Wolverines in 2022, as the squad finished with a 25-4 record which stands as the third most wins in program history. The season culminated with a Big Ten Tournament Championship, its first since 1996.The Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2021, Adam led Michigan to the Big ten East Championship and an NCAA tournament appearance.

Adam arrived in Ann Arbor after a successful 13-year head coaching tenure with Pepperdine University (2022-2014) where he delivered a national championship in 2006. The 2006 Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Coach of the Year and a seven-time West Coach Conference Coach of the Year he guided Pepperdine to 10 NCAA Tournament appearances, including five Sweet 16 appearances, one Elite Eight trip and two Final Four appearances.

A native of New York, Adam attended Penn State University and served a captain of the tennis team his senior season. He began his coaching career St. Johns University from 1989-95.

Dr. Harold Friedman

Harold played football and baseball for Southfield High School graduating in 1969. 

After watching his daughter play in the JCC Maccabi Games in 1991, he fell in love with the Maccabi concept. He chaired the Detroit JCC Maccabi team from 1992- 2010, sending Detroit athletes to different cities each year to compete and get the Jewish experience through sports. He served on the JCC Maccabi National Board, chaired the SAC (Sports Advisory Committee), in 2008 Detroit hosted the JCC Maccabi Games and he was the Chairman for those games.

In 2005 he joined Maccabi USA, which is the international Maccabi team. Over the years he served on the medical team, as USA team manager, Junior Team Manager, Sports Chair of 15 sports, ran the mission and remains on the Maccabi USA national board. He traveled to Maccabiah games in Rome, Sydney, Australia, Vienna, San Pablo Brazil and 4 sets of games in Israel.

David Kamisar

David ran the largest tennis clinic for ranked players in the Midwest for over 30 years.  The program contributed to the development of many world ranked players and national champions. He also ran the largest match play tennis program (where players played a series of different 30-minute matches) in the Midwest for over 30 years.   Besides coaching through clinics, David privately taught world ranked players and state champions.

 In addition to coaching, David trained and inspired many players to become tennis coaches.  Furthermore, David enjoyed helping all tennis coaches by speaking at the USPTA Midwest Convention (1988) and writing articles for ADdvantage magazine, Tennis life, the Midwest Connection and Tennis Week.