​Tennis Southland are delighted to announce a Tennis New Zealand Coaching Assistant Course, to be held in Invercargill on the following dates, 21-23 September.
 
The Coaching Assistant Course is designed for people who intend to assist a head coaching delivering to beginner players or for volunteers delivering tennis in rural/remote areas. This course is a continuation from the Coaching Fundamentals short course, covering teaching basic technique and applying key aspects of coaching in practical situations. The course enables coaches to deliver lessons to beginner players at Blue, Red, Orange and Green stages and covers working with beginner adults.
 
Recommended for: Experienced players and coaching assistants 14 years and older
 
Length: 21 hours
 
Pre-requisite: Completed the Coaching Fundamentals short course (free).
 
Cost:  $300 per participant which includes course materials and tuition.
Note: If the attendee is assisting a registered National Participation Programme (Tennis Hot Shots Coaching or Community Play, Tennis Xpress or Cardio Tennis) deliverer in 2017/18, the attendee will receive a $100.00 subsidy from Tennis NZ.
Note: Tennis Southland have received funding from KiwiSport for the first ten participants who register for the Tennis NZ Coaching Assistant Course. The first ten participants will each receive $200 towards the cost of the course fee.
 
Venue: SIT ZERO Fees Velodrome, Stadium Southland, Invercargill
 
Dates: 21-23 September (9am – 4pm daily)

Full course attendance is required, however, please let us know if there is a small part of the course that you cannot attend, and we will try and make allowances.
 
Participant numbers: Minimum 8, maximum 14
 
How to sign up for the Coaching Assistant Course
You can sign up for the Coaching Assistant Course here
https://tennisnz.formstack.com/forms/coaching_assistant_course_invercargill
 
You will be sent a separate email confirming your submission along with payment instructions. Once payment has been received and you have completed the Coaching Fundamentals short course, then you will receive a confirmation email securing your spot on the Coaching Assistant course.
 
Registrations close:
Friday 31 August, 4:00pm.
 
Please circulate this information to anyone in your coaching or club community whom you think would benefit from this course. This may be parents of Hot Shots children, local school teachers or club administrators and volunteers – spread the word! 

Are you involved in organising tennis in your area? Do you think the way tennis in NZ is structured could be changed for the betterment of tennis? Do you think tennis in your area is successful and would like to share why?
A roles and responsibilities review is taking place across NZ and everyone is welcome to provide thoughts on what's working well and what's not, specific to them. Check out the linkhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/r/tennisrolesandresponsibiliti…
to complete the survey or contact Jo 021400557 to discuss.

Congratulations to the following junior players who have been selected to represent
​Southland at the South Island Invitational Teams Event in Timaru (Queens Birthday weekend). In alphabetical order;

10 Girls: 
Molly Henderson 
Nia Robertson 
Natalie Spence
Sophia Watson

​10 Boys: 
Kees Cummings 
Rafferty MacIntosh 
Taine Smith 
Leo Tagg

12 Girls: 
Heidi Clarkson 
Jade Hamilton 
Grace Watson 
Sophie Willans

12 Boys: 
Ben Anderson 
Charlie Standish 
Cody Stevens 
Taine Withy
​
Coach; Peter White

Meetings with the Working Group
The Tennis New Zealand Board would like to invite you to participate in one of a series of meetings that Tennis New Zealand and the Working Group will be holding around the country in April and May 2018.
The purpose of these meetings is to bring together the boards, managers and other key people involved in Tennis in your area, to discuss their views and perspectives of the challenges and opportunities for delivering tennis. 
This is a critical process and we recommend  you participate at a location and time that is convenient. The schedule for these is:
 
30-Apr
Invercargill
Stadium Southland

Associations/Meeting
4.00 pm - 5.45 pm

1-May
Dunedin
Logan Park

Associations/clubs/stakeholders
6 - 8pm

The TNZ Board has formed a Working Group with people from across the Tennis community. The Working Group are seeking the view of the Tennis community in this process, including: 

Online Survey for all those involved in Tennis - Clubs, Coaches, Associations, Regions, Schools and Affiliates
The survey will be open for anyone involved in tennis to respond and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.  Please follow THIS LINK to get started.
Tennis NZ Invitation >>>
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