Blackwood Tennis Club Inc

Senior tennis teams Coordinator’s Report

Annual General Meeting

28th March 2007

This season we have had a group of 3 people from the senior teams to help pick teams and organise the senior section of the club, including social events. The help has been greatly appreciated. I wish to thank Kate Nixon for organising the ladies section of the club and Selwyn Child for helping with selection and phoning players before the season started and again in January before matches recommenced.

This year the club had 3 teams in the finals and 2 have made it through to this week’s Grand Final. Congratulations to the Division 2 and Division 4 Green Men’s Only teams on reaching this week’s Grand Finals against Denman and Happy Valley respectively. Also congratulations to the 5 Doubles team on making the finals in the South Western Doubles Competition. I am sure that both teams in the Grand Final would appreciate your support on Saturday. It does not have to be for the whole afternoon, just a half an hour would be great support.

Last year there was a distinct improvement in player commitment and I am pleased to say that this was evident from most players this season. However, there are a couple of players who need to consider the impact of being regularly unavailable. You let down your team mates, the club and yourself by constantly being unavailable. I know what it is like to have conflicting interests, having coached netball for the past 12 years and having to juggle practices, pre-season competitions and early matches, with tennis club commitments. I may be “old fashioned”, however once a commitment is given to anything I strongly believe you follow it through, not pull out because you have football training and your tennis team is not going to make the finals. What about all the players underneath you, who have to move up and weaken their teams chances of playing in the finals.

To all the extra players, who helped us out over the year many thanks, in particular Emily Lundborg, who played and won matches in Division 3 and Division 1.

It is hoped that the club can attract more ladies to play seniors, particularly in the higher grades. It would be great to have a mixed team in every Division. In this way the club can offer every player a reasonable standard of competition.

In closing, thank you again to this year’s helpers, particularly Kate and Selwyn, to the Management Committee for their support and to the players. I sincerely hope that you enjoyed playing at Blackwood and will be back again next year. If you want to help with team selection, social events or just generally help there is a spot for you at the club. We are always grateful to have volunteers.

Garry Dolman

Senior Teams Coordinator.