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First choice to run tennis center backs out

Tourism Association will review other candidates for post

By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com

It’s unlikely that a decision will be made on the permanent director for the Peachtree City Tennis Center before the end of the year, according to Linda McCarthy, executive director of the Peachtree City Tourism Association which operates the venue.

The association informally made an offer to a candidate and was expected to formally vote on that offer at its meeting Wednesday night, McCarthy said. But the candidate, Tony Niland, pulled his name from the running Monday after previously agreeing to the offer, McCarthy said. In doing so, Niland said he had family concerns to take care of and he soon would be moving out of the country, McCarthy said.

That leaves the association in the position of going back through all the resumes and interviews it has conducted for the position in an effort to “find the second-best person for the job,” McCarthy said, indicating that Niland was the best qualified.

Niland, currently the director of tennis operations at the private Cedar Creek Racquet Club in Cashiers, N.C., previously served as general manager of the Racquet Club of the South in Duluth from 1995 to 2003, McCarthy said.

McCarthy said Monday she does not anticipate any formal action from the association to fill the position at Wednesday night’s meeting.

The tennis center director is the last opening the association expects to fill after declaring earlier this year that all employees, originally hired by the city’s development authority when it ran the tennis center, would have to reapply for their jobs. All of those employees at the tennis center and the city’s amphitheater have since been rehired, officials said.