# Hunting Park: Continuing The Legacy

Jonathan Rosado wasn’t around last week to hear the kids – the ones who saw him as their hero – sing him "Happy Birthday." He wasn’t around to see them do a cleanup of the Hunting Park tennis courts, where he worked with [Legacy Youth Tennis ](https://www.legacyyte.org/)to teach them not only about fitness and health but also about leadership and responsibility. The 22-year-old coach, who was a founding member of Legacy’s Hunting Park program, was senselessly shot the Saturday before Christmas, just a few doors down from his family’s home on Cayuga Street in the same neighborhood he left such an impact in. https://vimeo.com/124495326 w=500 h=281\] "The kids now feel like they have the obligation to do well as a result of Jonathan’s undying support for them, and undying belief that they would become better people, not just better tennis players,” said Kareem Bryant, Legacy’s director of neighborhood-based programs. Legacy will be holding the Jonathan Rosado Memorial Tennis Tournament July 17-19 at the Hunting Park courts, which are getting renamed after Rosado. For the kids he mentored, it will be their first time playing in a [United States Tennis Association](https://www.usta.com/) sanctioned tournament. “It’s a big deal for them,” said Bryant. “And for us, we’re showing our continued thoughts about Jonathan for how much he meant to us as an organization. It’s a step in the right direction.”

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