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• TENNIS PARENT INFORMATION 2019

  1/9/2019
  TENNIS PARENT INFORMATION 2019

   

  ~ We are very excited about this year’s SAA Tennis team. Tennis is a sport for a lifetime and we encourage everyone to play!! Practice will begin Monday January 14th, 2019. Varsity’s First Tournament is Friday January 25^th& District Matches start February 21st^th!!

   

  ~ All Teams, Freshmen, JV and Varsity, will practice Monday thru Thursday each week throughout the season.  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. 

   

  ~ Please try and schedule tutoring, ortho. appts, etc…on Fridays, except on the Friday’s a tournament is scheduled. Each player can miss no morethan 3 Practices, unexcused, to get a PE Credit for Tennis.

   

  ~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 2:00pm over the school announcements and/or by email.

   

  ~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 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 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 or TBA.

   

  ~ 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. 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 $60 and includes 1 Team Dri Fit Practice 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. 

   

  From the SAA Handbook:

   

  Attendance:

  • It is a school rule that your daughter must be in attendance at SAA a full dayto participate in extra-curricular activities. In addition, our Athletic Policy requires that the participant be in the first  4 periodsof the school day. Coaches will be notified of absent students.  Doctor visits:  must check in with the attendance office and have a medical note from the doctor on said day.
  • Clinic – must sign in to enter clinic.  Miss any class for clinic forfeits participation in athletics on said day. 
  • Please make every effort to avoid making medical or other appointments‘on practice days’.  
  • Please email the coach in advanceif athlete is not in school (sick), this is important for planning practices.

  Practices:

  • Anyone not at practice will not playin the following day’s competition.  (Coaches have flexibility to make gray-area decisions in this area.  Thank you for respecting the concept that some decisions are made in confidence with respect to issues of privacy.)
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