MORE INVOLVEMENT IN THE PROMOTION OF SPORTS
1960s My wife and I helped to start the first Chinese Tennis Association in the Bay Area. The club had grown to hundreds of players in a very short time.
1973 Served as president of the Montclair Tennis Association
1975 I started the first Little Olympics at Laney College in Oakland with participants coming from all over Northern California.
1970s When I was the president of the Chinese Cal Alumni of Northern California I organized activities to support the Cal Bear Tennis Team by holding tennis tournament and marathon fundraisers.
1980 When I was the president of the Lions Club I started the Lions Basketball Team and Tennis team and encouraged other Lions Club to do the same. We had many friendly matches between many of the Lions Clubs in the region.
1990 & 1991 I organized and captained a over-35 basketball team to compete in the Northern California Chinese Basketball Association Championship. We won both year championships. The winning team was supposed to travel to Los Angeles to compete with the Southern California champion during "Fathers Day". Since most of my players are fathers they did not want to go to LA on Fathers Day. We dropped out of the 1992 competition because the organizers were not happy when we refused to go to LA to represent Northern California.
1992 Since Sports are the international language, I took the basketball team to tour China playing in Dalian, Xian (w/ Chna national team), Guilin, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
1996 As the vice mayor of Oakland I organized a city officials and city staffs baseball team and asked other city to do the same so that we can have better relationship between cities through sports. Our first match was against San Leandro (we lost).
Present time I have organized the Laney Tennis Family and grown to over 275 members at this time. Laney Tennis Family became the model to promote tennis for the under-served community and I received the USTA Diversity Service Awards in 2008. Chang has captained 46 USTA teams and took 16 teams to the Championship events including 4 National championship events during the last 3 years.
2010 I took a tennis team of 30 players to compete in China (Shanghai & Nanging) to promote better international relationship through SPORTS.
2011 Inducted into the Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame
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