Hellman Tennis Center

For the past 17 seasons, California tennis has made its home at Hellman Tennis Center, located on the south-west side of campus next to the historic Edwards Track and Field Stadium. Used both for practice and home dual match competition, Hellman served as the host facility for the 1996 Men's Rolex NorCal Regional Tournament and was the site of the '94 NCTA/Michael Chang Reach for the Stars tennis clinic that benefited underprivileged Northern California youths.

Built in 1983 with a grant from the S. H. Cowell Foundation, the Hellman Tennis Center was formally dedicated by the university in October of that year. From 1983-91, Hellman housed the offices of both men's track and field and men's tennis, until the merger of the men's and women's athletic departments relocated women's head coach Jan Brogan's staff to Hellman in 1991. The facility's office space has been "all tennis" ever since.

The tennis center honors the late Isias Warren Hellman, III, a Cal alumnus (A.B., 1920), former chair of the Cowell Foundation and the former president and chair of Wells Fargo Bank. Hellman was one of Cal's most prominent and active donors and was responsible for university contributions ranging from the Friends of the Bancroft Library to the Alumni House and Barrows Hall.

In 1993, stadium lights were added to Hellman Tennis Center, a direct result of the work of former Oakland Athletics owner Wally Haas. Haas, a Cal tennis letterwinner in 1927, spearheaded the Cal Sports 80s fundraising campaign, which brought campus-wide improvements to all of Cal's athletic facilities.

In 1994, Hellman underwent another transformation with the addition of Thomas Stow Plaza to the tennis center. Additionally, the department plans to add scoreboards to the facility sometime in the near future.