James O'Connell Memorial Tournament

The James O'Connell Memorial Tournament is a men's division one collegiate tennis tournament held at South Regency Tennis and Fitness in Miamisburg, OH. This tournament will be held in honor of the late James O'connell.

Location: South Regency Tennis and Fitness
When: September 23 at 9am through September 24th at 6pm
Past Events

"It's All About Love"
Tennis Charity Event

On June 11, 2022, the JPO Foundation hosted what we hope will be the Toledo area's premier annual tennis event at TWOS Athletic Club. The event featured French Open Doubles Champions Luke and Murphy Jensen, local pros, and college players. The format included morning clinics, exhibitions, live band, and lunch. Then in the afternoon, community clinics for children. All proceeds will be used to educate area students on promoting healthy relationships and distributed to local non profit mental health providers specifically directed at making mental health care more accessible and timely in our community.​

The Toledo City Charity Racketathon

On August 20th and 21st, the JPO Foundation had its first fundraiser at TWOS Athletic Club. Over 40 participants played modified scoring versions of tennis, pickleball, platform tennis, table tennis, and squash. Our most heartfelt thanks to the folks at TWOS for hosting and organizing the event and the local television news stations that came out to cover it. Everybody had a blast and it raised over $1000 for the foundation.

American Federation for Suicide Prevention "Out of the Darkness Walk"

On October 16, Lauren Jackson represented James and the JPO Foundation at the AFSP Out of the Darkness Walk in Detroit. Over $1600 was raised and more importantly a number of people reached out to say thanks for sharing our struggle and listening to theirs. We are looking forward to participating in the Out of the Darkness Walk in Toledo on October 1, 2022.

ProMedica TEEN PEP

On September 24th, James' mom, Deb, and sister Kelly, were the keynote speakers to several area high school student groups for ProMedica's TEEN PEP (Peers Educating Peers) program. TEEN PEP is a highly successful school based program promoting safe and healthy relationships for youth. The response from ProMedica and the students was enthusiastically positive and we look forward to continuing to help this important initiative.