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Financial Projections and Justifications Made EasyThe growth committee is happy to announce the release of a financial calculator for projecting the costs of building and running platform tennis courts, facilities and programs. This set of spreadsheets, developed by Rich Green, facilitates difficult and time consuming tasks, helping you move closer to making your platform tennis facility dream a reality. Take a look at the financial calculator and other tools on our Growing the Sport page. |
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State of the Sport Address: The College Platform Tennis EditionAfter eight years of playing paddle and three years of passionately promoting college platform tennis, Chris Kelley offers some observations, advice, and optimism for the future of the sport at the college level. More |
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Crest Hollow Rescues Platform Tennis ProgramWhen the Huntington YMCA decided to discontinue its platform tennis program, the APTA and Crest Hollow Country Club teamed up to move the courts and save the open membership program. More
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Ask the Rules Guru – Shall We Change?After witnessing a fight over swtiching balls, Torn and Deflocked wants to avoid future conflict by learning the rules. More |
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Ask the Rules Guru – To Lock or Not To Lock
All Boarded Up wants to clear up a questions on locking snow boards. More |
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Ask the Rules Guru – Wearing YellowColorless and Confused wonders if yellow clothing really is illegal. More |
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College Courts at Carolina Inaugurated
On a perfect fall day the University of North Carolina christened its three new grade level platform courts, helped out by Jean Kempner, Mike Rahaley, Mike and Mark Fischl. More |
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Ocean Pines Welcomes Impromptu ExhibitionDelmarvaNow.com picks up a story of an exhibition at Ocean Pines that Chip Morrow arranged on a vacation with friends. More |
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Ask the Rules Guru – Crossing to the Other SideBefuddled Ball Chaser asks the Rules Guru if it's legal to chase a ball around the net post and onto the opponent's side. More |
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Ultimate Experience Instructional DVD ReleasedIn September 2008, Dave Ohlmuller, Marina Ohlmuller, Ray J Murphy and Matt Warner began collaboration on the Ultimate Experience Platform Tennis Instructional DVD. It has taken eleven months to do the exhaustive one hundred hours of on-court and off-court filming, editing, and state-of-the art technical work to put the video together. More |
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APTA Court Grants Proving Successful in Growing the Game
Mindful that a stated mission of the APTA is to grow the great sport of Platform Tennis, as well as the quandary that it’s hard to justify courts if you don’t yet have players, and yet it’s hard to attract new players if you don’t have courts for them to play on, the Board of Directors of the APTA decided several years ago to experiment with a Grant Program. The concept was and is to solicit proposals for grants to help build publicly accessible platform tennis courts in areas where the sport has great growth potential. More |
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UNC Gains 3 New CourtsHow do you give a recreation director the goose bumps? Give him the space of eight tennis courts and let him create a multi-purpose recreational facility for a major university. Marty Pomerantz of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, had just that opportunity. His new facility includes tennis, sand volleyball, basketball, in-line skating and three new platform tennis courts. More |
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Platform Tennis Goes to School
Platform tennis creates committed players, including young players. At Georgetown University, Yale University and McDonogh School in Maryland, enterprising students have created platform tennis programs they hope will spread the word to other athletes and endure after they depart. More |
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Paddle Shack
Sunset Ridge Country Club (Northfield, IL) member Betsy Noxon writes about her introduction to platform tennis in the February 2009 issue of North Shore Magazine. She had the fortune to get her start on the court with Sunset Ridge's pro Peter Berka - PPTA professional and accomplished top tier men's player. More |
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Resident Elected to Hall of Fame
The Garden City News Online covers the induction of Sharon Hummers and Winnie Hatch into the Platform Tennis Hall of Fame. More |
