Chisago Lakes Tennis
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Mission
The mission is to promote the great game of tennis in the Chisago Lakes Area, with specific emphasis on the boys' and girls' tennis teams that compete for Chisago Lakes High School. While every sport can have its virtues, tennis has been proven through studies to provide benefits that on average prolong one's life.* It's a sport that can be enjoyed by the entire family and played into a person's 90s thus spanning a lifetime.
Vision
The long-term vision is to put into place the required elements to establish perpetual competitive tennis teams for our area. The elements identified by examining other schools throughout the state that have these types of tennis programs are: 1) parental support, 2) a feeder program which constantly brings in new kids (as young as 2nd grade) through year-round beginner lessons, 3) available local year-round group and private lessons for students as old as 12th grade, 4) summer tournaments, 5) the possible establishment of a local USTA Junior team, and 6) affordable local indoor court access.
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How can you help? If you care about the sport of tennis in the Chisago Lakes Area in any way at all, here are a few ways you can help the overall cause: a) play tennis yourself, b) volunteer to help in the overall effort (just contact us to find out how you can help), c) if you are a parent or grandparent of a child that is interested in tennis, please support them by either helping to financially support their training efforts, or taking them to and from their tennis activities if needed, and/or attending their tennis events, and d) be an overall tennis supporter in the CL Area community by lobbying local authorities for equity financially for our great sport!
Coaching Strategy
The coaching strategy for this effort will be based on the idea of establishing a solid proper foundation for tennis strokes within each student. This approach takes patience as each aspect of each stroke is broken down into its various components and much time spent to perfect them. As a result, it's an approach that may bore some students who are simply wanting to go hit some balls around now rather than put in the effort to become great tennis players in time. But other students will take to the idea and succeed. Since all students are welcome to come learn from us, it is our hope that in time all of them will also see the value of learning good proper strokes. This "great foundation" tennis idea is not new. Instead it's an idea that can and has produced world champs over the years. Tennis, like a few other sports but more than most, requires getting the basics right!