The Hills Tennis Association (HTA)

Hi Presidents and Secretaries,

I am pleased to inform that I am your new Participation Leader and I will be your first point of call for any matter relating to our programs and services.

I would also like to take opportunity to inform that Tennis SA welcomes our latest staff member to the Participation Team, Matthew Fitzgerald, who will be leading the Participation Team as the Participation Manager. At the same time, the Participation Team has also done a review on the PLs’ regions and has re-allocated the respective PL’s regions.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me by phone 0466 572 424 or by email (eloh@Tennis.com.au), and I look forward to meeting you and your committee.

Thank you and have a great week ahead.

Best regards,
Egon

FYI, the Participation Team is:

·       Matthew Fitzgerald (Participation Manager) – SDTA, GDTA and Fleurieu Peninsula Region

·       Anne-Marie Handke – WDTA, NETA, Mid North, Barossa and Riverland Regions

·       MT Smith – EDTA, Eyre Peninsula, Upper North and Yorke Peninsula Regions

·       Egon Loh – Lawn Clubs and Tennis Seniors, Hills, Murraylands and South East Region

Hi players, parents and interested onlookers!

If you haven’t already got a login for Match Centre, now is the perfect time to do it! The Summer season begins in about a month, so get yourself signed up and ready to go.

Access to the website will give you all up-to-date match fixtures, venues, results, ladders and statistics.

Senior players especially will need a login this season as no printed programs or scoresheets will be provided by the HTA – all match information will be accessed via leagues.tennis.com.au.

If you’re a newbie to this, we’ve created a simple “How To” document to get you started.

Check it out and get yourself on the system!

HTA

Hi all you Senior Players!

Did you know that team nominations for the HTA Senior Summer Saturday comps close this Sunday? Are you keen to play the Traditional or Doubles Only Comp? Have you let your club know of your intentions for this season?

Teams need to be entered by Senior Coordinators (ie not individual players) into League Manager by 5.00pm this Sunday. Please contact the Senior Activities Committee (senior.activities@hta.asn.au) if you have any queries.

SAC

Good Morning,

Latest HTA MC Meeting Minutes are now available for viewing.

Thank you

Regards, 

Tracy Goodwin

0438 877 771

HTA Secretary

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Opinions on how we should go about meeting the needs of our doubles players are wide and varied! Discussions have shown that there is no one clear path that stands out as the best one to follow. It is for this reason that we have come up with a plan that we think is pretty cool! Here’s how it will work.

Division 1 doubles will remain unchanged – 8 player teams (4 men, 4 women), play 4 sets each during a Saturday afternoon.

For Division 2 Doubles (and lower), Clubs will be asked to nominate their teams in whatever format they like! Yes, that’s right. Senior coordinators will submit teams via a different online form, where they can nominate how many players they’d like in the team (4, 6, 8 or something else) AND whether they have any gender requirements or not. Some teams may prefer to have an equal spread of men and women, while others may prefer a gender neutral team which will allow any gender to play in any position, based on order of merit. This second option will allow clubs that have an abundance of one gender and a shortage of the other to field teams without the restriction of having to supply a certain number of men or women. Experience in other competitions and associations has shown that this works well.

What are your intentions for this season? Speak with your senior coordinator and get them to submit what YOU would like for your doubles team. A club may submit 2 or more teams using 2 or more different formats.

Once all nominations are received, the SAC will look at and assess them. The most commonly nominated format will be used to make up the competition for season 17/18. Those teams that don’t fit that make up will be contacted and given options that will still allow them to be part of the competition.

We are excited about this initiative, as it is putting the power to determine how the competition will look back in the hands of the clubs. If you’re keen to play doubles this season, speak with your Senior Coordinator soon about how this might look for you.

Senior Activities Committee

This survey will be closing soon. Please CLICK HERE to have your say about the number of sets that will be played in an afternoon by Div 2 and below Senior Saturday doubles.

Senior Activities Committee

Hi Myles

Thanks for making us feel welcome on Monday night, I enjoyed the trip out to Hahndorf!

I thought the session went well and I hope you did too. It was a great turn out by your clubs and seemed to be well received.

Attached is a copy of the Presentations

“Tennis Australia has a zero tolerance approach to any form of child abuse and is committed to ensuring the sport of tennis is a safe and friendly environment for children and young people. It is imperative that children and young people who access our activities, programs, events or services feel safe and supported.

As part of this commitment Tennis Australia and Tennis SA are providing child-safety workshops this week to educate clubs, coaches and associations on the new Safeguarding Children policies and resources.

While representation from a club is not mandatory at these sessions, Tennis SA will maintain a register of workshop participants as a record of which Clubs attended to listen to what is best practice in Safeguarding Children.

If you haven’t attended a child-safety workshop this week and would like to, please contact Darren Sahb (Tennis SA – Education Officer) to obtain a list of proposed dates in September.”

I have also attached the PowerPoint presentation from the Workshop as well as a very useful presentation I attended recently as part of Child Safe training through the Office of Recreation and Sport. .

Feel free to contact me to discuss this or any other matters in relation to tennis policies.

Good luck with the 2017/2018 season!

Cheers

Darren

HI All

Please be advised HTA MC Meeting Minutes 24/7/17 are available for viewing.

Thank you

Dear Clubs

Attached is your Club’s ball order form for season 2017/18 for payment and return by 15 Aug 17.

Dear HTA Presidents & Secretaries

Below are two workshops that are being run by Tennis SA. First being the Tennis SA Club Development Conference and secondly workshop on Venue Management.  Please register your attendance

Club Development Conference – Sunday, 30 July 2017

The 2017 TSA Club Development Conference will be held on Sunday 30 July at Next Generation Clubs.  This year’s conference will be the third annual conference staged.

The morning session will consist of a series of breakout groups that have been formed from feedback from our 2016 conference and a recent survey sent to Club Presidents & Secretaries. All morning sessions will be a mixture of presenting as well as having Club members being engaged to provide feedback and ideas. Following lunch, the afternoon will be focused on “Women in Tennis” (see agenda attached).

Day to commence with registrations at 8.30am and finish around 3.00pm

Please register by clicking on the link below -:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2017-tennis-sa-club-development-conference-registration-35162749731

Regards, 

Tracy Goodwin

0438 877 771

HTA Secretary

Minute Recorder

Dear HTA Clubs,

I hope everyone is enjoying winter tennis, netball/football or your other chosen winter pastimes…

With August shortly upon us, our thoughts turn to preparation for the upcoming HTA 2017/18 Tennis Spring/Summer Season.

Your Club is invited/required please to send two delegates to:

What: HTA 2017/18 Senior Junior Conference

When: Monday, 7 August 2017 7:15pm for 7:30pm

Where: Old Mill, Main St Hahndorf (Note: the venue has changed from past conferences)

Purpose:

·       Tennis Australia will give a Child Safeguarding workshop. Import update information for all Clubs.

·       HTA will discuss the newly revised Rules Of Match And Play, new competition formats etc for coming season.

·       Everything your Club needs to know, ready for the start of Tennis Season 2017/18

·       The more detailed Agenda is attached for your convenience

If delegates could please come prepared with an updated list of all your Club Contact details with Name, Email, Phone for all of your Committee positions, this will not only save you some writing at the Conference but ensure that after the Conference the HTA has a complete record of all your Club’s correct contact information for the coming season.

As always, as a courtesy to our guest speakers, the Committee and other Clubs, please ensure that you have two Club delegates in attendance from 7:15pm, thank you. Ideally one person from senior tennis and one from junior tennis. With your help to achieve full Club attendance we will ensure that we have a quorum and prevent the need to hold the meeting again. Many thanks.

Please disseminate this information as widely as possible at your Club.

Many thanks

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Good Morning,

Meeting Minutes from MC Meeting 20/3/17 are now available for viewing.

Thank you

Regards, 

Tracy Goodwin

0438 877 771

HTA Secretary

Minute Recorder