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Fellow New England USPTA Professionals,
I can’t tell you how excited I am to be the President of your USPTA New England Division. I am looking forward to working with the fantastic new board, state reps and most of all, you, our New England members. Here are two of my goals over the next two years:
- Give our members more value for their annual membership dues.
- Have more members included and involved with all of our USPTA New England projects such as conventions, Tennis Across America Days, Lessons For Life events and our many other programs.
I hope that you will contact me or any board member to make suggestions on how we can improve our organization and be better tennis professionals. Your feedback is necessary and needed. We look forward to hearing from you, no matter how creative or “outside the box” the idea is. Thank you and I look forward to meeting many of you in the near future.
Chris Stevens
USPTA NE President
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New England USPTA Members,
We have three important items to share with you.
- Let’s start with a recent change from within our board of officers. Our Regional Vice President, Marcy Rubinstein has recently resigned due to personal reasons. The next step was to follow our bylaw procedure and fill this vacant position. The board voted and decided to fill the Regional Vice President’s position with Doug Eng who was previously our Treasurer. With Doug moving into the Regional Vice President position, we then filled his Treasurer’s position with Vice President Mike Mercier. We have a strong board of officers and look forward to an exciting and prosperous two years together!
Here is a look at your updated 2012 USPTA New England Board of Officers:
President
Chris Stevens
Regional VP
Doug Eng (previously Treasurer)
Secretary
Connie McHugh
Treasurer
Michael Mercier (previously a Vice President)
Vice President
Phil Parrish
Vice President
Steve Thuot
Past President
Jacques Faulise
- The nice weather lies ahead and it is time to think about our Spring Convention. We have selected a new site and new dates to attract more members this year. The 2012 Spring USPTA Convention will be held at the beautiful Woodstock Inn and Resort in Woodstock, Vermont on April 27-29. This will be a great opportunity to get away from your job and decompress before the upcoming summer season. Our jobs are stressful so please join us for this relaxing educational opportunity to network, party and kick back a little! A full description of this wonderful weekend will follow in the next few weeks!
- Finally, as we are putting together our speaker’s lineup for the Spring Convention, it is important to have new speakers present and share their professional knowledge. If you or you know of someone who would be a good speaker at our next Convention in Vermont, please contact Doug Eng at douglas.w.eng@gmail.com .
Thank you and the board of officers look forward to seeing many of you in April in Woodstock!
Chris Stevens
USPTA NE President
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Register your Lessons for Life events
Click Here To Register
The
USPTA would like to thank all of you who have been participating in
this year's Lessons for Life campaign. We realize many of you have
already submitted your information to us. However, there are a number of
events that go unrecorded each year because of busy schedules or lack
of information on how to register events. We want everyone who has
participated in Lessons for Life this year to please submit their
information to the World Headquarters, so that we can give you and your
division the proper credit for your efforts and help USPTA reach its fundraising goal.
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| USPTA Members Host Tennis Across America Clinics
-- USPTA encourages kids to play Tennis – for the health of it! with free tennis clinic--
Hundreds of United States
Professional Tennis Association members across the nation hosted free Tennis
Across America clinics with the theme of Tennis
– for the health of it! on May 14, to celebrate the 22nd annual
Tennis Across America Day. While the overall goal of Tennis Across America has
always been to take the game of tennis to new, current and former players, this
year the focus is on promoting the health benefits of tennis to help support
efforts to reduce obesity.
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Harvard University approved as USPTA Regional Testing Center
The United States Professional Tennis Association, the world’s leader in tennis-teaching certification, has created a system of regional testing centers. These regional testing centers offer the Certification Exam, including the review course, PTCAI, written exam, grip exam, private lesson, group lesson, feeding exam and stroke production tests.
USPTA selected major metropolitan areas with populations of at least 3 million people, strategically placed geographically around the United States, allowing USPTA regional testing centers to be available to the greatest number of potential applicants. The USPTA national testing committee recently approved Harvard University’s application proposal by Michael Mercier, the head tennis professional at the site.
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| Wheelchair Tennis is Fundamental Tennis
The 2011 New England Wheelchair Tennis Camp, held at Harvard University
in August, was not only a great time for wheelchair tennis players, but for
teaching professionals as well. A half dozen professionals successfully
completed a USPTA Wheelchair Certification session during the course of the
camp, and came away with new teaching skills and a deeper connection to
tennis. Over the course of many years of
directing Wheelchair Certification sessions, I've seen that certification can
help professionals improve their teaching skills, inspire more passion and
commitment to teaching tennis, and help them to better connect their students
with some of the core principles of successful tennis.
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