Registration for Summer 2024 Opens May 1. 

To register, click the registration links above beside the program offerings. Each participant in your family will need to create a free USTA account.

• Accounts for youth under age 13 will need to be linked to and managed by an adult account. Youth accounts are always free.

• Accounts for youth over age 13 can be linked to a parent account or managed individually. Youth accounts are always free.

• Accounts for adults are free to create - only the free version is needed to register for our summer clinics. Adults who are interested in registering for USTA leagues or tournaments will eventually need to upgrade to a paid USTA membership.

Players who want more than one hour of training per week have several great options:

1. Sign-up for two clinics back-to-back, for a total of two-hours

2. Sign up for two nights per week

3. Submit an inquiry for private or small-group lessons. These have flexibility on length - just make a note of your preferred lesson length on the lesson inquiry form. 

All of our clinics will be held at Bloomington High School South. 

Our clinics are focused on teaching the fundamentals of tennis, including: stroke development, footwork, rules of match play, mental strategy, and sportsmanship. If you are looking for more advanced training opportunities, you should consider private or small-group lessons. 

We utilize USTA curriculum as we put together each of our weekly clinics. Below is a rough outline of how each lesson is structured:

Arrive early for check-in & warm-up on your own.

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10 minutes: Large Group Demo of Stroke Fundamental of the Day (and transition to small-group courts)

30 minutes: Drills for Stroke Development

10 minutes: Game / Activity with Live Ball Play

5 minutes: Review & Wrap-up

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Several short water breaks will be given while balls are being picked up throughout the clinic. Players are encouraged to have their water bottle along the fence and drink from it at any point. 

Every player should bring a tennis racquet, tennis shoes, and a water bottle. If you do not have a racquet (and are not able to purchase one prior to the start of clinics), please let us know ahead of time and we can have one available for you to borrow.

It is important to ensure all players are using the correct racquet size for their age/hand size. This is a great article on finding the right sized racquet. 

You can get a beginning-level racquet at Target/Walmart/Dick's. However, as players develop, I always recommend that they talk to a racquet specialist at Tennis Warehouse. They can help you find the perfect racquet based on grip size, how much power/control the player wants, playing style, etc. I have been using Tennis Warehouse for 10+ years for all of my tennis equipment and team uniforms. They also have a lot of great Learning Resources on the Website.

Each session generally ranges from 30-40 participants. However, we do our best to keep our player-to-coach ratio low. Once we are finished with our large group lesson, players are broken up into small groups based on age and skill level. For our youngest players (8 & under), we do our best to maintain coaching numbers of 4-to-1. On our courts for older youth and adults we do our best to maintain ratios of to 6-to-1. 

Unlike other sports that are able to play during a light drizzle or soon after the rain stops, it is NOT safe to play on tennis courts that are wet. We will notify you of any rainouts via email and a credit will be issued on your account to use toward a future enrollment.

We staff our clinics based on the number of participants registered in each time-slot and want to ensure the proper coach-to-player ratios are being maintained. Thus, we are unable to allow shifting between time slots to accommodate for missed clinics due to personal reasons.