2018 Tennis Parent Information Letter

 

~ We are very excited about this year’s very large SAA Tennis team.  Tennis is a sport for a lifetime and we encourage everyone to play!! Varsity Black, JV and Freshman Practice will begin Wednesday January 31st, 2018. Varsity’s First Tournament is Friday January 19th & District Matches start February 6th !!

 

~ The District and Varsity Gold Teams will practice and play their matches on Tuesdays & Thursdays and the Varsity Black Team and JV teams will practice on Mondays & Wednesdays.  All Practice is at Lee LeClear Tennis Center, 9506 S. Gessnar Dr. Houston, TX  77074, LLTC, starting at 3:30 and, depending on what we are working on that day, it will end between 5:00-5:30. If your daughter is riding the bus, it will leave from the back of the cafeteria at 3:10pm and will return there at the end of practice, between 5:15 pm and 5:45 pm.  ***Because our team is so large this year, we are encouraging as many girls as possible to carpool to practice with those players that drive.

 

~If the weather is bad we will either cancel for the day or do 1 hour of conditioning at SAA (depending on Gym Space) so practice will end at 4:30. If we cancel practice, an announcement will be given by 2:00, either over the school announcements or on our Twitter Feed. 

**You can follow us at @saa_ten or it is also cast to the Tennis Home page on the St. Agnes Academy website.

 

~Varsity Tournaments are usually on Fridays and Freshmen/JV Tournaments are usually on Tuesday.  District matches are always on Tuesdays and Thursdays, unless we need to reschedule due to weather.

 

~ On days that we have a tournament or a match we will not have practice.  Each girl will go to the tournament they have been assigned, so if your daughter is not scheduled for a tournament she will have that day off. Please try and schedule tutoring, ortho. appts, etc…on these days.

 

~ On match days we travel as a team on the bus and everyone stays until all are finished playing.  We strongly encourage a “team” atmosphere, one way that is done is we expect everyone on match days to wear their Team T-Shirt, and to watch and cheer on their teammates. Unfortunately, everyone does not get to play at the same time, so those waiting to play get to watch the others. We feel it is not fair to let the ones who have played already leave while the second round is playing.  Please do not ask us to leave early.

 

~ If you are picking your daughter up after practice at LLTC try to be there by 5:10 pm because the bus cannot leave until all car riders have been picked up. Your daughters are told to wait inside the club house for safety reasons. They are not allowed to wait in the parking lot for you.

 

~ We will always make a weather decision by 2:00 on the day in question, please watch your Twitter @saa_ten (also on the Tennis Home Page) for any cancellations, when in doubt, you can always call me, Coach Kris, at 281-250-8424.

 

~ Coaches cells are: Tom Caine 281-650-9531; Kris Caine 281-250-8424. We ask that each girl have these numbers in her phone, especially for days we are in tournaments, since they are usually at different sites. They should also have a list of those teammates cell numbers.

 

~ We may need more than 1 team mom this year.  If you are interested in helping with this, please contact Coach Kris at kris.caine@st-agnes.org  281-250-8424

 

~ As soon as our schedule is finalized our Team Mom (TBA) will schedule you for snacks and refreshments for our Matches and Tournament days. These are long days and our girls like to have snacks to keep up their energy.

 

~ We invite you to attend Booster Club Meetings. They are the second Wednesday of the month in the Choral Room.

 

~ Each player is required to attend our Spring Sports Banquet and stay until the end! All family is invited. We also are required to provide some muscle power for set up of the banquet and clean up please let our Team Mom know if you can help with this, usually start set up about 4:00 banquet starts at 6:30.

 

~ If your daughter is out sick please contact us as soon as possible so we can make any adjustments that need to made for practice or matches, etc.   Our emails are:  

kris.caine@st-agnes.org; tom.caine@st-agnes.org; tuyen@st-agnes.org; jwheeler@st-agnes.org

 

~ Attire for practice each day is the SAA Practice tennis shirt, they may choose their bottoms. On Match and Tournament days they are expected to be in full SAA Tennis Gear. For the JV and Freshmen teams that is their SAA Team T-Shirt and a skirt of their own.  For Varsity, that is their SAA Uniform.  TAPPS is cracking down on the uniform rules and we want to always be in compliance. No bra straps may show, everyone should have a white and a black sports bra to wear with their tennis uniform.

 

~ The Fee this year is only $40 and includes 1 Team T-Shirt and 1 Team Sweat Shirt.

 

~ If a piece of gear that was issued to your daughter gets lost or is not turned in, such as a Tennis Bag or Warm Up, there is a monetary amount that will be needed to be paid for us to be able to reorder, we usually cannot order just one so it is best not to lose anything.

 

 

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