Vice Mayor Chang Greets China World Champion Volley Ball Team
Connie Chang (front 2nd from right) won the Sectional - Reno
Captain of Chinese Northern California Basketball Championship Team

Bio

Laney College Seniors won
Division Championship in Carmel

Chang Led Team to the USTA
 National Championship in Las Vegas - 2008

USTA Captain of the Year  2008
 
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 575 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 and the President's Awards. 

2010   I took a tennis team of 35 players to compete in China (Shanghai & Nanging) to promote better international relationship through SPORTS.

2015   I took a tennis team of 30 players to compete in China (Chengdu & Suzhou Anhui).
 

       TENNIS ACTIVITIES
 VARIOUS CHAMPIONSHIPS
        VARIOUS AWARDS

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