Philosophies:
- Maintain a balance: Excellence in tennis requires discipline, but so does academic excellence. Academics should come first as it is critical for acceptance into college. High Performance (Sectional/National) play, however, requires significant sacrifice.
- Focus on Improvement first, then Performance and Finally results: Players must first learn tennis skills and to apply those
in practice. They must then take what they have learned in practice and implement them in play.
- Recipe for success in tennis is basic: good coaching + motivation + regular and intensive practice (clinics, match play, lessons).
- Passion yields passion: We are passionate about tennis and about helping all in our program to improve. We hope that our passion is contagious.
- Tennis and competition teach life skills and life lessons : Tennis teaches independent thinking – no one is on the court with a player to make decisions. It teaches problem solving/strategic thinking -- players must try and find strategies that result in success. Tennis teaches mental toughness – players learn to deal with adversity, loss, difficult situations (difficult opponents, bad calls, etc). Tennis helps teach the importance of hard work for success - there are no shortcuts for long-term success. Honesty and integrity are the foundation for life and tennis.
