2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to Steven Schwartz

Steven Schwartz, this year’s Club Industry’s Fitness Business Pro Lifetime Achievement Award winner, co-founded Midtown Midtown Athletic Clubs, pioneered the use of an industrial revenue bond as a vehicle to finance a multi-sport facility, helped write and teach the first management training course for club professionals, created the first industry facts and figures survey, developed the first industry-wide program for worker's compensation insurance, served as president of the National Indoor Tennis Association from 1973 to 1974 and from 1978 to 1979, and served as vice president, first vice president and then president of the United States Tennis Association between 1997 and 2004.

For more on Schwartz, read "Love All," a profile from the September 2007 issue written by Pamela Kufahl, editor.

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