Stacy Margolin was born on April 5,1959 and is an American former professional tennis player in the WTA tour and the ITF world tour from 1979 to 1987 whose career-high world singles ranking is No 18.
20 Facts About Stacy Margolin
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Stacy Margolin won a gold medal at the 1977 Maccabiah Games in Israel.
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Stacy Margolin was a talented junior player, competing in numerous national tournaments, including multiple appearances at the Ojai Tennis Tournament.
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Stacy Margolin played for the University of Southern California during her collegiate career and led the Trojans to a national championship.
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Stacy Margolin was ranked No 17 in the nation after competing in the USTA Under-14 Junior Tennis Team National Competition.
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At Beverly Hills High School, Stacy Margolin was not only the No 1 women's singles player, but joined the men's varsity tennis team and became their No 1 player as well.
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Stacy Margolin helped lead the USC Trojans to a USTA and an AIAW national team title.
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Stacy Margolin would become a two-time Collegiate All-American during those two years.
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In 1977, Stacy Margolin was the US 21-and-Under Champion and was a member of the US Team participating in the Junior Wightman Cup.
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Stacy Margolin won the Ojai Tennis Tournament in women's singles.
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Stacy Margolin went on to defeat Tracy Austin to become the Women's Southern California Sectional Champion and was the Southern California Sectional Mixed Doubles Champion with her brother, Mike Stacy Margolin.
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Stacy Margolin won her first and only tour championship, the 1978 WTA's Women in Tennis International Singles Champion held in San Antonio, Texas.
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Stacy Margolin was consistently ranked in the top 40 between 1980 and 1984, and would go on to be a Wimbledon Plate quarter finalist and a semi-finalist in the Wells Fargo Open in San Diego.
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Stacy Margolin continued to compete on the tour and participate in 25 grand slam championships, including the 1978 Wimbledon and US Open mixed doubles, in which she was partnered with John McEnroe.
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Stacy Margolin became the Head Tennis Director of the Youth and Adult Recreation Department in Ojai, California, from 1995 to 1998.
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Stacy Margolin won the Tennis Teaching Pro Outstanding Service Award from 1986 to 1989.
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Stacy Margolin was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2004 as well as the Beverly Hills High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Stacy Margolin entered the ITA Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 2014.
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Stacy Margolin organized the first Ojai Tennis Marathon in 2000, an event in which participants attempt to play fifty games of tennis in a single day to raise funding for the Ojai Valley Youth Foundation, of which Stacy Margolin's husband, Ian Potter, is on the board of directors.
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Stacy Margolin continues to organize the tennis marathon event as of 2015.