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Announcements
8/14/08
JASPER'S ED YARBROUGH
CHOSEN
NATIONAL TENNIS COACH OF THE YEAR
Veteran
Jasper High School tennis coach Ed Yarbrough received a major
award this summer when he was chosen National High School Girls'
Tennis Coach of the Year for 2008. The award is from the
National High School Coaches Association.
Yarbrough coached the boys' tennis teams at Jasper for 34
seasons and won a state title in 1999. He continues to
coach the girls' tennis team, which he has directed for 23
years.
Yarbrough is the all-time victory leader in Indiana high school
tennis with 855 wins.
Here is a
newspaper article about his accomplishment.
Congratulations, Ed!
7/25/08
DETAILS COMING SOON
FOR NEW
BOYS SENIOR ALL-STAR TENNIS MATCHES
The
Indiana High School Tennis Coaches Association will conduct the
inaugural Boys' Senior All-Star Match event this fall. The
event will be Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008 at DePauw University in
Greencastle.
Coaches will be able to nominate their senior boys. Teams
will be formed for the Northwest, Northeast, Southwest and
Southeast regions of the state. Competition will be in
singles and doubles and will take place the weekend after the
State Singles and State Doubles finals.
St. Vincent Sports Performance Center is the primary sponsor of
the new event. Carmel Coach Mike Bostic, a vice president
of the IHSTeCA, is the event organizer.
There has been no All-Star opportunity for senior boys for the
past several years. An Indiana-Kentucky event was offered
in the late 1990s. For senior girls, the Indiana Coaches
of Girls Sports Association annually offers the North-South Cup
in June.
Further details for the new boys' event and a nomination form
will be added to this site soon.
7/25/08
DATES, SITES SET FOR
MANDATORY IHSAA
RULES INTERPRETATION MEETINGS
Each head
tennis coach in Indiana must attend an IHSAA Rules
Interpretation meeting each year.
The meetings are approximately 90 minutes in length. The
meetings help ensure that everyone is aware of key rules and
that all schools are playing under the same set of rules around
the state.
Here are the sites and dates for the
2008-2009 Rules Interpretation meetings.
7/25/08
SURVEY ON RULES PROPOSALS
PLANNED FOR EARLY THIS FALL
The
Indiana High School Tennis Coaches Association, in conjunction
with the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association, will
conduct a statewide survey of tennis coaches in late August or
early September this year. The survey, which will be
conducted online, is given every two years.
Coaches will have an opportunity to voice their opinion on about
20 potential rules changes in high school tennis. IHSTeCA
and ICGSA leaders will compile the results and then will use
that information to present one to three Rules Proposals to the
state high school athletic directors and to the IHSAA this
winter.
Stay tuned for further instructions regarding the survey!
7/25/08
SPORTSMANSHIP CREED FOR
INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS
This
statement on sportsmanship is endorsed by the Indiana High School Tennis
Coaches Association and its Board of Directors. Coaches are
encouraged to use this creed to help educate players and fans on the
importance of sportsmanship. Coaches may want to print copies and
distribute at team organizational meetings and/or may want to have each
team member sign a copy and pledge to uphold the basic tenets of
sportsmanship. This statement is not a rule to be enforced by the IHSTeCA, but rather it is a good-faith creed designed to promote
sportsmanship for high school tennis in Indiana.
Click to view the full
sportsmanship
creed
7/24/08
MICHIGAN CITY
MARQUETTE
HIGH SCHOOL
SEEKS BOYS' AND GIRLS' COACH
M.C.
Marquette High School (District 1) is looking to fill their boys
and girls head tennis coaching positions. For more information
contact AD Troy Campbell at 219-873-1325.
6/10/08
ALL-STATE TEAMS CHOSEN
All-State
girls' tennis singles and doubles teams were selected on
Saturday, June 7 in Indianapolis. Those teams have now
been released. Check
here.
6/10/08
ACADEMIC ALL-STATE ANNOUNCED
See who
made the Academic All-State girls' tennis team
here.
5/29/08
PARK TUDOR CLAIMS
TEAM TITLE;
COLUMBUS NORTH, NORTH CENTRAL WIN INDIVIDUAL TITLES
Top-ranked Park Tudor
became a four-time consecutive state champion in girls' tennis
by beating No. 4 Jasper and No. 2 Munster on Saturday, May 31.
No. 5 Zionsville placed third by beating Jasper.
The IHSAA individual singles champion is Caroline Hedrick of
Columbus North. The IHSAA individual doubles champions are
Maggie Ashby and Alena Perez-Majul of North Central.
Complete results from team state and individual singles and
doubles are available at
www.ihsaa.org
5/30/08
DISTRICT TEAMS SELECTED
FOR GIRLS' TENNIS
At a
series of statewide meetings on Wednesday, May 28, the
All-District Singles and Doubles girls' tennis teams were
chosen. The teams are listed on the
District page.

At the
2008 Indiana Tennis Convention, new U.S. Olympic coach Rodney
Harmon (left) instructs a session for coaches. Coaches who
attended the USPTA Specialty Course with Bob Love and Guy Parks
pose at right.
4/16/08
Attention Convention attendees: The 2008 Convention report has
been added to the site, and can be found under From the
President above.
4/11/08
Coaches interested or involved in the USTA's "No-Cut" Program,
they have a new interactive website. This program allows
coaches the opportunity to interact with other coaches on tennis
tips, scheduling, and other convenient topics.
Here's
the website.
4/09/08
Attention coaches: USPTA Master Pro Jorge Capestany, a frequent
speaker at the Indiana and Midwest Tennis Conventions, has
produced an excellent new website for tennis drills. The
site is called
www.tennisdrills.tv and it offers free samples to preview.
The drills are shown on videos and also are diagrammed and
explained wonderfully in easy-to-print format. Check it out when
you have time. It is a project that Capestany has been
working on and thinking about for several years, and the product
is outstanding!
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