Brought to you by:

Jay Govan

Raul Garza

Skylar Swall

Brien Galon

Chelsea Horan Happy New Year Ladies

and Gentlemen!

Things are getting back

into full swing around here

at the tennis centers. It is

quiet and cold so far, well

this is Texas so it’s actually

quiet, hot, cold, raining,

sunny, etc…

Some of you wonder what

we do all the live long day

up until after school

academy gets started up.

What can be said by the

men and woman hanging

around here is that they

have their “days”. So far

this week the office tasks

have included chores such

as going through the dead

and good balls in the bas-

kets. Along with that

comes throwing the dead

balls out, then the fun task

of opening new cans of ten-

nis balls (about 100+ cans)

without cutting open any

hands. Reports say that no

hands were sliced open, but

one coach could not feel his/

her hands after testing for

dead and good tennis balls.

When the coaches are just

hanging out in the office

they are usually doing one

of the following things:

Watching videos on videos

for on court and off court

drills, brainstorming

workout programs, contact-

ing high school or middle

school coaches about up-

coming tournaments and

matches, inputting payroll

for the seasonal coaches,

discussing and planning

tournaments to be hosted

at the tennis centers

(draws, sites, workers,

etc…), and the occasional

vexing of Coach Chelsea.

It’s not the typical desk job

around here but we would-

n't trade it for the typical

desk job. OH! You can’t

forget how Coach Chelsea

will sometimes drag Coach

Jay out for a workout, you

are missing out on the com-

edy show there.

The staff here at ATC and

NTC wish you well

throughout this season, we

are all looking forward to

what this year has in store.

Thank you for indulging

yourself in our first ever

newsletter and have a won-

derful day!

The Month of January:

∗ Australian Open January

16-29th

∗ Super Champ MZ January

14-16th

∗ Middle School Tennis Season

kicks off January 20th

∗ Afterschool Academy starts

January 9th

∗ Adult Leagues start January

9th

∗ Sunday Community Ed clas-

ses start January 22nd

Coach Jay & Coach Raul’s Break Points

Our break point of the month concerns the mental component of the game. A phrase

that we share with players is, “if you can get things right in your head, than tennis

will take care of itself.” Getting things right in your head requires self-discipline, hard

work and dedication. The mental part of the game comprises up to 90% of the game,

which means you need to spend double the amount of time on this area than you do on

the other components. An exercise you can do to improve this area of your game is

write tennis scripts. A tennis script is what you speculate will happen at a tourna-

ment or a match. The information included is detailed to what you do in your warm-

up before your match (dynamic stretching, back board hitting, etc.) and during the

match (each ball you hit and what placement, each point, game and set). It’s a chal-

lenging exercises that requires you to think about what you do.

School Tennis News 2

Player Awards 2

Academy Updates 2

Drill of the Month 3

Tennis in the City 4

Brien’s Baseline 5

Chelsea’s Challenge 6

Inside this issue:

Score Updates

January 9, 2017 Volume 1, Issue 1

Here in this section you can find

the latest highlights from tour-

naments and upcoming tourna-

ments for High School Tennis.

High School Varsity and Junior

Varsity Individual Season will

be kicking off with the Dominion

Winter Classic the weekend of

January 20th.

The season will drag into April

which is when the Individual

District Tournament will be,

leading up to the Regional Tour-

nament.

Middle School Team Tennis will

be kicking off January 20th and

run up until March 8th.

Results and Tournament Draws

will be posted on our social me-

dia pages frequently.

Nadal’s comeback, and the new rival-

ry of Andy Murray and Novak

Djokovic! Will Novak defend his title

from last year? Or will Andy Murray

continue his dominance from 2016? Or

maybe we will finally have an Ameri-

can break through the ranks and win

a few surprising matches! I am ex-

tremely excited to see how the year

unfolds and I hope you are too!

Brien’s Baseline consists of tennis

stories, new products in the tennis

world such as racquets and string,

and tennis outside of the district such

as professional tournaments going on

around the world!

This month starting January 16th

through the 29th, will be the start of

the 2017 Australian Open. The new

tennis season brings a lot of promising

storylines such as Federer and

High School and Middle School Tennis

Brien’s Baseline

Don’t forget about Pre-Workout before

clinic, hitting and participating in

Academy is not enough especially for

those of you wanting to play higher

levels.

You can

join Pre-

Workout at

both NTC

and ATC.

Lastly, we have Adult Leagues start-

ing again, the Women’s League will be

Singles on Mondays and Doubles on

Thursdays at NTC. The Men’s League

will be Singles on Tuesdays and Dou-

bles on Wednesdays at ATC.

Any high school or middle school play-

ers are more than welcome to join

leagues for extra match play.

After School Academy is getting fire

up here again starting January 9th,

we have now added an extra day in

training out here now.

The idea we have right now is to make

Thursday the designated match play

day, but for those who cannot make it

out Thursdays we will be trying to get

you match play Wednesdays as well.

Academy Updates

Page 2 Inside the Windscreens

This section will be dedicated to the

players who meet the following crite-

ria each month:

Academic= A/B Grade average in

school

Work ethic and attitude in After

School Academies

Tournament Results= Semifinals or

better in the main draw of any tour-

nament participated in.

*NOTE: Meeting 1 of 3 or 2 of 3 of

these requirements does not earn you

recognition. The coaches here want to

challenge you to excel at everything

you can control. Social life is never a

bad thing, but you cannot control the

people who come in and out of your

life.

Commit yourself to excelling at what

you can control, we cannot be GREAT

at everything we do, so be willing to

sacrifice a lack of greatness in some

areas of life.

As always, be respectful and mindful

of others on your journey.

According to Steve Smith, 15 minutes

hitting with the backboard is equiva-

lent to an hour of practice.

Here’s the drill! Grab your head-

phones or a speaker, make up a

playlist of about 10 songs you enjoy

working out to. Grab 2-3 DEAD ten-

nis balls. Make sure you warm-up

properly before starting.

Now lets get started! Every song is

ONE STROKE, so the first song you

This section will be drills that players

can perform on their own time, with a

partner, or even in practice.

Feel free to share this with friends,

coaches, or whomever you may please.

For this month’s drill I will keep it

simple, lets go with everyone’s ever

loving and faithful backboard this

month. I know you’re rolling your eyes

right now, but hear me out the back-

board is the best hitting partner there

is!

hear can be dedicated to forehands

against the wall, the next one is back-

hands, forehand volley, backhand vol-

ley, forehand slice, backhand slice,

and dedicate 2 songs for serving.

If you want a challenge pick a long

song, about 5 minutes at least and

try to alternate forehand and back-

hands without failure for the whole

song.

GOOD LUCK TO YOU! COMPETE!

Game Changer Scholars

Drills with Skylar

pline will be challenged: What’s serv-

ing percentage like? How many un-

forced errors are you making? Are you

focused on your footwork more than

your technique in matches?

Off court challenges will include chal-

lenging the words that come out of

your mouth, how you treat others,

how you treat yourself, and maturity

in other areas of life.

The way Chelsea’s Challenge will

work is each month Coach Chelsea

will give the readers and players a

challenge for themselves on and off

the court.

On court challenge could be some-

thing challenging your mentality:

How positive can you be? How is your

composure? Do you have a plan?

Maybe your strategizing and disci-

Chelsea’s Challenge

Volume 1, Issue 1 Page 3

Northside Tennis Center

12045 Leslie Rd

Helotes, TX 78023

210-398-1800

Contact through Email: Jay Govan: jay.govan@nisd.net

Chelsea Horan: chelsea.horan@nisd.net

Brien Galon: brien.galon@nisd.net

Annemarie Tennis Center

7001 Culebra Rd

San Antonio, Tx 78238

210-397-7592

Academy Flyers

Contact through Email:

Raul Garza: raul.garza@nisd.net

Skylar Swall: skylar.swall@nisd.net

For more links and flyers such as adult

leagues, workouts etc:

nisd.net/athletics/tennis