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Growing the Sport
New Tools - Jan/Feb 2010 - Financial Calculator and Municipal Paddle Brochure!
The Growth Committee of the APTA assists local enthusiasts across the country (and world) in developing platform tennis programs and building courts.
Assistance can include grant money toward building courts, as well as written pieces covering “why paddle?,” financial justifications, technical specs, past proposals for club or park boards, past APTA grant proposals and informative histories of successful projects.
The Committee also offers pro-bono personal assistance to organizers by way of liaisons who can shepherd organizers all the way through the process. Each liaison has personal experience in growing platform tennis in his or her own location.
We urge you to take advantage of these resources as the APTA carries out one of its major missions – to grow the sport!
Facility Development Resources
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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 Program
When 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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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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APTA Platform Tenns -- Check It Out
Todd Ward has long been known for his devotion to the sport, having orchestrated countless clinics and exhibitions around the country. In this fast-paced video, Todd takes on the role of producer and brilliantly captures the excitement of platform tennis. 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 Courts How 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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The Pitch for Municipal Paddle II
This is a must read for anyone looking to develop a platform tennis program. Tom Dow details the success he and fellow enthusiasts have had in implenting a strategy for growing municipal platform tennis that he proposed in an article several years ago. More
Platform Tennis at the Neighborhood Club
This is a modifiable Power Point presentation created in 2004 to be used as a proposal for municipal platform tennis programs (referred to in the article above). Please note that it is a large file and may take a few minutes to download or to open. Click to open or save PPT presentation |
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Waveny Lodge Renovation Waveny Lodge is an historic building located within a 250 acre park in the center of New Canaan, CT. In 2004, a group of platform tennis enthusiasts embarked on a multi-year effort to upgrade the existing platform tennis courts and renovate Waveny Lodge as the padde hut. Their extraordinary community effort resulted in an exceptional facility. More |
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Atlanta 2008 by Peter Lauer
The Peachtree Paddle League, Wilson, the APTA, the PPTA and others sponsored a star-studded season opening clinic and exhibition in Atlanta. More |
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Buffalo 2008 by Dave Jentsch
The Buffalo, NY platform tennis season opened quickly this year when Buffalo hosted an APTA exhibition and clinic on October 3rd and 4th. Inveterate veteran Fritz Odenbach arrived from nearby Rochester, NY with colleagues Sky Kalkman and Andy Thompson and teamed with Bob Considine from Paddlepro for the weekend. More |
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Minneapolis 2008 by Todd ward
The APTA/PPTA kicked off the year in Minneapolis on October 3rd and 4th. Mark Fischl (Long Island), Todd Ward (Cincinnati), Eric Moran (Chicago), and Rob Bakker (Cincinnati) headed to the city for a weekend of clinics, exhibitions and pro educational seminars. More |
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APTA Clinics and Exhibitions by Todd Ward
As some of you are aware the APTA/PPTA does promotional clinics and exhibitions throughout the country during the platform season. The purpose of these clinics/exhibitions is to spread the good word of our sport to undeveloped or declining areas. More |
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Starting a Club by Anne M. Connor
Eileen Goode tells Anne Connor how she started a platform tennis club in Madison Wisconsin. More | | |
