Girls Tryouts

In two weeks we will begin having tryouts to determine the 2009 Girls Tennis team at Northwestern High School. I am excited to get to work on making this team as good as it can be.

To remind everyone, tryouts will be held:

Mon 8/3 9am - noon
Tue 8/4 9am - noon
Wed 8/5 9am - noon
Thu 8/6 9am - noon
Fri 8/7 9am - noon (team selection by 12 noon)

I do expect that all players are familiar with tennis rules and scoring. I will briefly cover it on days 1 & 2 to refresh everyone on things such as no-ad scoring and tiebreakers. Hopefully this will be just a refresher and not a new learning session.

I have sent out several notices this summer about shoes, physicals, birth certificates, etc. Attached to the emailed tryout message was a list of things that are required and/or suggested for players to have with them to tryouts. Please be familiar with it.

As for shoes, I ordered them last week and they should arrive by the end of next week for the 5 girls that paid for shoes (Cramer, Cramer, Tindall, Barber, Sosebee). In the event that something goes wrong with the order; bad size or fit or an order delay (which I do not anticipate), I encourage players that ordered shoes to wear something athletic the first morning of try outs. In a nutshell, plan for the worst but expect no issues.

If you still have not gotten a physical, it is not something I will look the other way on. If your family doctor cannot see you before 8/3, please go to Riverview on Celenese Road. They are open 24 hours 7 days per week and are very familiar with the physical needs of student athletes and their pricing is reasonable. Here once again, is the form to have the doctor fill out:

http://northwesterntrojans.org/library/files/NorthwesternTrojans_org/files/ppe_form.pdf

At try outs, plan on it being hot - even at 9 am. If you are not physically ready to play 3 hours of tennis every day in the heat it will affect your chances of making the team. However, the worst thing that I can imagine is for a girl to be seriously harmed from the heat. I am CPR trained and the school does have a trainer at school. That doesn't mean that I want to gain real time experience using my CPR training. Be physically fit and ready for try outs.

For the girls that do end up making the team at NHS, I will be handing out an equipment order form on Fri August 7th. I will be asking that at a minimum all girls order three practice tee-shirts ($10 ea, $30 total per player). I will list out additional items as well that may be purchased such as long sleeve tees, sweats, etc. Parents are also encouraged to purchase items to support our girls this season!

Also, I had mentioned at the parents meeting that I would try to purchase skirts for the girls from our budget. However, with the high cost that is going to happen replacing the windscreens this is just not going to be possible. Team members will be expected to own at least one (1) white tennis skirt and one (1) black tennis skirt no later than Wednesday August 12. These should preferably have no stripes or trim so that we all look relatively the same. Here are some options:

http://www.tennisexpress.com/category.cfm/tennis/Skirts-womens-tennis-apparel/displaycount/300

http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/searchapparel.html?search=args&type=WOM&xcat=waskirts&scode_size=&scode_color=BK&x=9&y=14

http://www.midwestsports.com/womens-tennis-skirts-skorts/c/605/

Let me know if you have any questions. I'll be out of town next week at the high school coach's convention and on vacation, but if you email or call me I'll return your message as soon as possible.