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Last updated : March 27th 102010
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AVHS Boys Team 2010 Season Information
Varsity Line-up
10 players - 4 singles positions - 3 Doubles teams - Players be Determined
JV Brown Line-Up
14 players - 6 Singles positions - 4 Doubles teams - Players be Determined
Other teams will be formed depending on the numbers
AVHS Tennis Program Philosophy
Our goals for the season.
That every member of the team, from top varsity to our beginners:
Has fun playing tennis.
Learns more about the game and improves.
Is challenged.
Is treated fairly.
Meets their tennis goals for the season.
Is safe.
Feels they can communicate easily with the coaches.
Becomes as self sufficient as possible.
Parent/Guardian information
We are very glad to have your son playing tennis with the school team this year.
We have placed a great deal of the information about the team on this web site. We are very pleased that so far, communicating with the team through the web site has been successful. We will be updating this during the season. We plan to have links to directions to all away matches.
Please do not hesitate to call any of us if you have any questions or concerns. We are trying to encourage the boys to take responsibility for themselves as much as possible. For example, we are asking them to personally let us know, by e-mail or telephone, if they will miss practice on a particular day.
For those parents, who have boys that are new to our team, we run things a little differently than most high schools! Our philosophy is that our program is for all players who wish to play for AVHS. We therefore make no cuts. We feel that each boy deserves equal attention, and we want to help them all reach their personal goals during the season. We think trying to have each boy do their very best in each match and practice will make us the best competitors we can be. Our coaches are at least as competitive as those at competing schools but we have a slightly different approach. With hard work any player on the team now could make the varsity team if that is what they really wanted.
We are continuing a fine tradition from our early years in England by providing some refreshments for our opponents, as well as our own team, at each home match. Each team will elect Captains and we hope that the captains parents would be kind enough to organize this for us. Hopefully, each family will only have to do this once!
We very much encourage you to attend as many matches as you can. We appreciate your support, as do the boys. We are very keen to follow the rules and etiquette of tennis so we ask that when you are watching in the Arena that you sit at one end or the other and not between the courts. Tennis is a little different from other sports in that coaching is against the rules during the match. In high school tennis only the coaches may coach when the players switch ends, but not after the first game of the set. We see your role, at the matches, as showing appreciation for fine play on both sides of the net. We do not help with line calls or the score. We leave the boys to work things out for themselves. If they are having a problem, please come and get one of the coaches to help.
Please never hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. We hope the boys will talk to us personally about issues they have but we understand there may be times you wish to talk to us directly.
Team Expectations and Suggestions
EXPECTATIONS
- Players to be dressed in appropriate tennis attire for practices and in tennis uniform for all matches, including shoelaces tied tournament tight. (By the time we line-up) Shirts must be worn at all times.
- Players to always run with at least one other person.
- Players to not chew gum during practices and matches.
- Players to be at each practice and match unless they are ill, they have a family emergency or have a pre-approved excused absence.
- Players to personally call or e-mail coach if they cannot come to a match or practice. (Please do not ask friends to relay messages.)
- Players to be on time.
- The bus will leave on time. You have to arrive on the team bus to play the match.
- Players to support the team by watching the other matches.
- Players to stay at the match until the final team meeting, which will be after the last match is over.
- Players to offer their opponent's any refreshments parents have bought for the home matches.
- Players to give their best effort in every practice and match.
- Players to keep to all the rules, the code and all tennis etiquette.
- Players to call the score out before they start their serving ritual.
- Players to ignore opponent's footfaults.
- Players to accept an opponent's line call without question.
- Players to portray an unruffled and confident image at all times.
- Players to hold on to their rackets even when frustrated.
- Players to have subtle celebrations after fine moments on the court.
- Players to say good shot to their opponent's when appropriate.
- Players to come to matches and practice prepared for all eventualities and with all the equipment they might need for indoor or outdoor play.
- Players' cell phones to be turned off during practices and matches.
Selection for Lake Conference Awards is decided by the coaches taking into account not just results but how the student played the game. We expect the highest level of effort and sportsmanship on all of our AVHS teams.
SUGGESTIONS
- Players to wear tennis shoes rather than running shoes or cross trainers.
- Players to have strings that are less than a year old.
- Players to eat a nutritious snack between school and tennis.
- Players to appear enthusiastic when their parents say they are coming to watch a match.
- Players to keep notes after a match. (Such as: 5 things I did well.)
Team Policies
APPLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
BOYS'
TENNIS TEAM
POLICIES 2010
- A middle school student with permission to try out for the team must make the varsity team in the initial try-out process to play on the AVHS team.
- A varsity letter will be awarded to any boy who plays for the varsity squad in a minimum of 3 conference or section matches.
- An unexcused absence will exclude a Varsity or JV Brown player from taking part in the next match. You will, however, be expected to attend that match.
- JV Gold players are expected to attend all practices and matches but are excused for commitments to other activities.
- Challenge matches:
- Coaches will arrange all challenge matches. Please ask the coaches if you wish to challenge a player.
- Players will be given 24 hours notice. If less time they may play if all players agree.
- If a match result is the same twice it will stand for the season
- All teams will be decided by challenge matches.
WIND WISDOM - STILL VALID IN 2010
Adjust ready positions in wind direction - wind at your back move closer to return
Watch the ball until AFTER you have followed through
Hitting with the wind
Shorter backswing same followthough on groundies.
Head still on contact(like Roger) - wait to be great - ball will arrive later than usual
More topspin - even semi lobs - tough to return
Keep feet moving so ready for small last minute adjustments
Get to the net from opponents short ball
Hitting against the wind
Hit harder but higher
Out consistent your opponent
Short slices and drops will work if you have those shots!
Head still on contact(like Roger)
Relaxation Aids: When you feel too tense, nervous and or afraid
Smile
Breathe
Racket out of dominant hand between points
Tense, then relax shoulders, arms and hands
Slow down between points
Take time to relax and recover immediately a point ends
Focus Aids: When you feel your mind wandering - sometimes a defense mechanism - we must face the moment head on
Eyes on ball, court or stings
Use rituals before the point starts
Hit - Bounce - Hit
Between points plan the next point
Confidence Aids: When you feel negative thoughts about your self creeping in
Act confident - positive body language
Be as fit as you can be
Choose shots you know you OWN
Give yourself precise instructions on what you want to do with the ball - spot, speed,spin,arc
We will be in uniform ready to play at 2:45pm
We will be prepared for a close match
We will be well rested and fed and hydrated
We will have packed our bag which we will take on the court. We will have plenty of water of course - cooled of course
We will have thanked our parents for coming but carefully remind them they must not talk to you even when you change ends
We will have asked then to sit outside the fence of the outdoor courts or on the benches at either end of the Arena
We will be looking forward to the battle
We will all jog together
We will all stretch together
We will warm up in the same environment we are due to play
We will have devised a warm-up which will get us ready mentally and physically
We will be ready to line up at 3:30pm
We will have a plan in case they are late
We will write down some match goals
We will have a game plan for the first 4 games - more conservative shots but a lot of movement
We will adapt and learn from what our opponent does well and awfully
We will do what we do best
We will try an alternate strategy if we are down by 2 games in a set
We will remember that slowing the ball down is one of the strategies
We will be in the moment playing one point at a time
We will aim every ball
We will watch the ball until well after we hit it
We will move with gusto after we hit
We will hop or unweight when our ball bounces on the other side of the net or is about to be hit on the fly
We will forgive ourselves if we do something silly
We will do our best
We will have fun
A video you may want to watch
In other words -wait to be great.
Directions to Away Matches
Click here for maps to the Lake Conference Schools.
We are working on links to non-conference schools we are playing.
Directions to Harding H S
Map to Henry Sibley.
Map to Stillwater High School.
Map to Stillwater Junior High School.
Map to Tartan Park.
Armstrong High School Home Page. Click on Map on bottom of that page.
Cretin Derham Hall School Home Page. Click on Our school on the sidebar of that page and then there is a link towards the bottom of the next page to a map. The courts are on the West side of the school.
Willmar High School
The Blake School.
Minnetonka High School
Club in Rochester that is the main site for the tournament.
One of the sites for the Rochester Tournament. Century High School Rochester
Other site for the Rochester Tournament. Mayo High School Rochester
Highway 100 Club - One of the Northwest Clubs.
Visitation School
Transportation Release Form
Click here to print form
If you have any questions please e-mail us at
coach@valleytennis.org.
Message from the Captains
Chris Steadman(Sr) and Joey MacGibbon(Jr) are the 2009 captains!
If you have any questions can e-mail Joey at TLonghorns42@aol.com or Chris at c.steadman09@yahoo.com
Apple Valley Boy's Tennis 09
Susan 952 290 0490
Sue 612 868 1984
Liz 952 210 8112
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