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Newest USPTA Member Benefit is Online Resource

The United States Professional Tennis Association on Tuesday launched a new Web site that offers extensive resources to high school tennis coaches and others who work with high school tennis teams and individual players.

The site at highschoolcoaches.uspta.com is free to USPTA members and available free for 90 days to others who register and provide a valid e-mail address and password. It was developed to assist coaches who shape thousands of young tennis players each year. Its main goal is to provide resources that make it easier to organize effective team practices for large groups. One of the most important elements is a practice template and a library of drills and games that can be copied and pasted into the template to create practices of any length or complexity.

Because this new USPTA benefit offers valuable material for team teaching, it’s the ideal tool to promote “no-cut tennis” for high school teams – a concept supported by the United States Tennis Association and its new president, Jane Brown Grimes.

“High school tennis plays a critical role in growing the game. We need to do all we can to provide high school coaches with the tools they need to run effective programs. The USPTA’s High School Coaches Resource Center will do just that. We are particularly excited about how this can help develop more ‘no-cut’ high school teams,” said Grimes.

The Web site represents possibly the largest collection of resources on teaching and playing tennis. Sources include almost four years worth of TV show productions for “On Court with USPTA™,” video recordings of both specialty courses and seminars from past USPTA World Conferences, audio seminars from past World Conferences, DVD productions from special events, including USPTA Competitive Player Development Conferences, drills, games and more.
The site menu includes:
· Team practice template
· Drills
· USPTA Player Development Program
· Video tips
· Audio seminars
· Instructional DVDs
· Join USPTA
· ADDvantage magazine
· “On Court with USPTA™”
· Find-a-Pro
· U.S. Pro Tennis Shop
· Other industry-related links

The High School Coaches Resource Center is one of seven independent sites hosted by USPTA. Check back often for updates.

Posted on April 26, 2007
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