Rebel Good

Roscoe Fletcher “Rebel” Good IV (July 20, 1949) is an American tennis official and newspaper journalist. He was elected to the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame in January, 2023.
==Officiating career==
Good began officiating tennis in 1985 for a low-level United States Tennis Association professional event whose host location switched from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to nearby Elkin, where Good was publisher of its newspaper. A tennis fan and recreational player, Good volunteered to be trained and to officiate matches for the tournament. In later years, several others from Elkin would become USTA certified officials following his example.
Good was an umpire for the tennis events of the 1992 Olympic games at Barcelona and the 1996 Olympic games at Atlanta.
Good served as an official for the United States Open from 1989 to 2020, as well as numerous major tournaments on the ATP and WTA tours in the United States over the same years. He was the first chair umpire to officiate a U.S. Open final using electronic line calling.https://www.nctennisfoundation.com/_files/ugd/36be4c_92ddfce835304d6d9d05707130ebffb0.pdf He is currently the executive director of the North Carolina Professional Tennis Umpires Association, the largest organization of tennis officials in the United States.
Beginning in 2010, Good has written the “Court of Appeals” column for Tennis magazine, answering or adjudicating readers’ questions about how to handle certain plays in a recreational sport without officials. From 2010 to 2014 he edited Friend at Courthttps://www.usta.com/content/dam/usta/2022-pdfs/2022%20Friend%20at%20Court.pdf, a supplementary guide for USTA officials. Good served on the rules committee of the USTA from 2010 to 2020, the officials committee of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association from 2015 to present, and is currently the editor of the ITA's rulebook and officials' manual.
He has been the tournament referee for the conference championships of the Colonial Athletic Association, the Atlantic Coast Conference, and the West Coast Conference numerous times.
==Early life==
Good was born aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina. As a military dependent he lived on both coasts of the United States during his adolescence. In 1965 he enrolled at Virginia Military Institute. He transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967, where he was managing editor of The Daily Tar Heel.
Following graduation, Good worked for the Twin City Sentinel of Winston-Salem. In 1969 and 1970, he was a professional miniature golf player in addition to his duties as a copy editor and sports writer there. After marrying Evelyn Stevenson, of Winston-Salem, in 1970, they relocated to Elkin, N.C., where Good was first the editor and ultimately publisher of The Tribune from 1978 until 2007.
==Journalism and Public Service==
Good was president of the North Carolina Press Association from 1985 to 1986; at age 35 he was (and remains) the youngest person to hold the office. Under Good, The Tribune was a strong advocate for open records, open government, and an open relationship among North Carolina municipalities and the newspapers that cover them; the North Carolina Press Association’s William C. Lassiter Award was conferred to Elkin, N.C., mayor Tom Gwyn in 1997, in recognition of their shared commitment to open government.
The Tribune also made an unsuccessful effort, in Elkin Tribune, Inc. v. Yadkin County Board of Commissioners (1992) to invoke state open records laws and require a county (or other municipality) to divulge the names of those who had applied for its county manager job, before the hire was made. The case reached the North Carolina Supreme Court, which ruled against the newspaper.
==Family==
Good’s grandfather, Roscoe Fletcher Good, Sr. was a United States Navy admiral and, among other duties, commanded the battleship Washington during World War II. He was later the commander in chief of U.S. Naval Forces, Far East during the postwar occupation of Japan. Good Glacier in Antarctica is named for him.
Good's father, Roscoe Fletcher “Rocky” Good, Jr., was a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. After his service in World War II, Good, Jr. was briefly a baseball statistician for The Sporting News, before returning to service in the Korean War. An aerial artillery spotter, Good, Jr. was killed April 24, 1951 in a collision with another American aircraft. He and his father are interred in the same plot at Arlington National Cemetery.
Good’s mother, Annelies Elizabeth Kaufmann, and her family were among the thousands of European refugees whose flight from Nazi invasionhttps://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/08/04/486735086/remembering-portugals-schindler and occupation during World War II was made possible with a visa granted by the Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes; her family later settled in southern California.
His youngest son, Owen, is a longtime video games journalist, currently writing for Vox Media’s Polygon.
Category:1949 births
Category:American people
Category:Tennis umpires
Category:Journalists