A new year means another new season is upon our doorsteps. The new registration brochure is now available and registration is now open. The junior program has been re-structured to help improve the flow from the start to the end of the junior age eligibility. The attached chart will illustrate the progression through the age range and learning levels. We have also enhanced the competitive streaming to support our home grown talents and committed juniors who are into competitive challenges. For those who are not competitively inclined, we still want you to enjoy tennis recreationally too. There is nothing better than to stay healthy and fit through life.
The upcoming season will have two levels for the high performance training in Kids Tennis consisting of the Orange and Green Play sessions. This will incorporate the play component into the training to facilitate the learning curve. The Green Play, the higher level group, is twice weekly and expands to three times weekly during the summer. The Orange Play is similar to the HP 10 session of previous seasons. It is twice weekly during July and August.
We plan to host a Future Star tournament (U10, U9) in September to support both our Orange and Green Play high performance juniors on home courts. The Green Play juniors can also participate at home in both of our club hosted open tournaments (Coquitlam Junior Spring Challenger in May and Coquitlam Junior Open Championships in August) at the Development Series level. There is also a Rookie Tour event in August and is organized by NETS.
The previous High Performance 14 and 18 sessions have also been restructured into Development Play and Tournament Play. Both these Play sessions are not separated by U14 and U18 age groups anymore but are now available to juniors 11 to 18 years old. The Tournament Play session will be twice weekly and three times weekly in July and August. The Development Play session is two times a week in the summer, the same as the previous HP sessions. All four high performance sessions are now from March to September. It will no longer be segregated into the spring and summer sessions.
The previous spring+summer Intermediate session has been incorporated into the HP Development Play session. Last summer six week Beginner, Novice and Intermediate sessions stay on in the program and these three levels will also see an additional spring session as well. The spring session starts in May.
Kids Tennis 1 (ages 3-5) and 2 (ages 6-9) are now labelled Kids Tennis 1 (ages 3-9). Previous Kids Tennis 3 and 4 levels are now Kids Tennis 2 and 3 respectively.
The junior program will continue to have five summer tennis camps spread through July and August. These popular tennis camps attract registrants from around Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody and cities and municipalities beyond these tri-cities boundaries.
The arrival of spring is just round the corner and the scenery will change. Our junior program has changed. Let us now look forward to the start of a very promising season with new and familar faces to welcome back onto the tennis courts.
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