Levan has recently joined the LATC Board where she is helping with social events. Levan has many interesting social events of her own, many of which are centered around the Buddhist Temple and around her very close family, her husband and two children.

Levan was born in Vietnam where she was a member of a big family consisting of her parents, two brothers and six sisters. The family left two years after the North Vietnamese invaded, when Levan was fifteen. The family spent fifteen years in Virginia sponsored by their aunt and a local Church. Levan attended the University of Maryland where she earned a BS in Computer Science, and where she met her future husband. After getting married and having two beautiful children, the Grays moved to Hong Kong, where they lived from 1993  through 1998, and where her husband taught at the University. Both wanted to return to the United States and came to California.

Levan was introduced to tennis during her senior year in high school. Their sponsoring Church gave them old wooden rackets and they played, not very seriously, at hitting the ball. She really began at age forty, strictly for exercise. She has taken only one class, at Foothill, where she played with twenty other students. She played enthusiastically with a friend after which she could not walk for three days. Levan joined USTA, and played one season at Sunnyvale, but found activities with LATC much more to her liking and is playing a few times a week. Now, she is again trying USTA.
 
The Gray family’s social activities include several activities with the Buddhist Temple. And just to occupy her further, Levan is a part-time esthetician, doing facials. Her husband works in the Video Game industry, and sings in a Barbershop Quartet. There’s a program idea for our next party!