October 2006
Monthly Archive
Tennis Week Editorial - should coaching be allowed?
Posted by Michael Starke on 25 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: General
Section 1V Girl’s High School State Qualifiers
Posted by Michael Starke on 23 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Events, General
| October 27, 2006 9:00 am | to | October 28, 2006 5:00 pm |
The Section 1V Girl’s High School State Qualifiers wer held here Friday & Saturday, October 27 & 28. The quality of tennis was good, and the doubles matches in particular provided some close competition and entertainment.
Congratulations to singles winner Lucy Mehrabyan of Ithaca defeating Danielle Kashou of Binghamton 6-1,6-3, and doubles winners Bhagavatula & Sisson of Horseheads who defeated Angela Smith & Kirby Lowenstein of Vestal, 6-4, 6-3.
Congratulations also to 3rd place singles winner Leigh Oczkowski of SCC & doubles winners Kovacic & Miller of UE . All the above mentioned will compete in the High School States this weekend held at East Side Racquet Club in Syracuse.
November Junior Tournament
Posted by Michael Starke on 20 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Events, General
| January 19, 2007 | to | January 21, 2007 |
We are now accepting applications for our upcoming Level 11 ETA junior event. The tournament will run November 17-19 and include boy’s & girls 12, 14, 16 * 18 & under singles.
Entry deadine is Sunday July 5, 5pm. To enter online: Click Here or you may pick up an entry blank at the club.Start times will be available Thrusday, November 9. The USTA/Eastern site which will post not only the start times, but the competitiors, directions, hotel etc. Draws will be posted here a few days before the tournament begins and will be updated during the tournament, so you can check out the results as they happen!
Tween Tennis & Pizza Party
Posted by Michael Starke on 16 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Events, General
| October 21, 2006 | ||
| 7:00 am | ||
| November 4, 2006 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
| December 16, 2006 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Last Saturday, October 14, 8 tweens bravely decided that a tennis outing party was how they were going to spend their Saturday evening.
Arriving at BTC, they were not sure what to expect; instruction, regimentation, a drill seargent barking orders? Upon entering the courts, they were surprised to hear music blaring, pizza waiting on the counter, instructions of “have fun” and a teenager musician, Adam Rosenwach in charge.
Once they adjusted to the fun on the tennis court concept, a great time was had by all, ending with a supervised game of manhunt. We hope to have another tween party soon!
Parent/Junior Seminar meeting report
Posted by Michael Starke on 13 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: General
On Wednesday, October 11 we have over 30 parents and juniors attend our first ever Parent/Junior Seminar. Our speakers included staff members Libby McGovern, who walked down memory lane with “My playing experience and career reflections” Billy Mendler who enlightened us about “how to prepare for a tournament”, Collin Crawford who presented “Getting the most of out junior and parents”, and guest speaker Dave Constantine, who gave us great insights on his daughters tennis upbringing with “Tennis Parenting, Our Story.” Michael Starke then followed up outlaying a general guideline for junior and parents and unveiled the new Western Region Junior Circuit that will start here in January of 2007.
While we were not able to cover all of the material planned, all in all, a lot of good information was disseminated, good questions were fielded, and there appears to be some genuine interest and enthusiasm from many of our juniors. The seminar lasted over two hours, and we thank those in attendance for their patience and interest.
I believe some of the main themes and messages of the seminar are:
- Match play is needed to get better; tournaments are a must
- Advance planning, a commitment and consistent hard work are key
- Use of odd hour court time, ball machine and semi private or group lessons instead of just private lessons can help
- We now run a full season ladder every Saturday 4-7pm, open to boys and girls. One can play a ladder match every week
- We run monthly travel team matches with Birchwood Fitness the 1st Saturday of every month, with four kids playing here, four kids traveling to Birchwood. Sign-up will be at the desk and at JCTP
- A new Western Circuit was announced, consisting of eleven Level 11 & Level 1 events in upstate NY. BTC will host two of these events. We strongly advise our juniors to compete on this circuit.
- We will as a group, travel to two of these tournaments next winter/spring with 8-12 juniors
- Entry blanks were passed out for our two upcoming junior tournaments, Nov 17-19 & Jan 19-21.
- Seminar packets are available at the desk for those who could not attend our parent junior seminar
I mentioned to a few parents about some websites and additional literature regarding parent/junior tennis. Here they are:
