1) Spring-Season Team practice;
Monday through Friday
after the school classes
(usually begins around
2:30 pm for 2 hours, Practice will be cancelled if the court surface is WET at
2:30 pm)
If you know any freshman(or any PHS student) who’s
interested in playing tennis, please bring her/him in to the tennis practice
sessions.
Players have to be registered in the BVAL
players list by fulfilling the following:
a)
submit an Athletic
Participation Card with physical check-up which was done after MAY. 2008.
If you participated any other sports in 2008-2009 seasons, you can bring
in the Athletic Participation Card for the sports.
You may have
a physical check-up at:
$25 physical check-up at Nathaniel P.
Cohen, M.D. (408)356-9620 or
$37 physical check-up at Paula Strauss,
M.D. (408)866-8820
which our PHS trainer recommends.
b) Your GPA must not be
less than 2.0 .
c)
bring in $50 check(payable to PHS) which is the
participation fee for the sport team. Balls, and other tennis equipment will be
covered by that.
d)
Commit yourself in the
mandatory team Practice. There’s NO-CUTs in the tennis skill Level, but your
commitment is mandatory to be a Varsity tennis team member.
Ordering Uniforms:
We'll use the last year's
uniform.
New team players need to order one,
a top at http://www.tennis-warehouse.
a shorts at http://www.tennis-warehouse.
OR
could you “google” the following:
"Reebok men’s momentum polo shirt", for example?
You can try the following,
http://www.thefind.com/
http://www.pronto.com/Reebok-
No JEANs and No marking shoes are allowed
on the tennis courts.
We have NO-CUTs on the
tennis skills to join the team.
Boys tennis team need 10-12 more beginning
level boys(No Try-outs, No Cut). If
you play in the softball, badminton, or soccer teams, playing tennis will give
you the best cross training for your major sports. Please feel free to drop in
and try playing tennis at the tennis court. Complete beginners are welcome.
2) We have only Varsity
Tennis team with regular players(top 10 players in the challenge ladders) and sub
players. Players play a regular matches(4 singles, and 3 doubles matches) or additional 8-game doubles
matches based ONLY on the challenge ladders.
Please keep challenging through the season and off the season.
3) Tennis team
players(boys and girls) can use a local 24 Hour Fitness Center FREE in its
“Varsity Program”. Please click “FREE 24 Hour Fitness Varsity Program” in the
first page for more information.
4) You need to play a lot
of games, hit a lot of balls to improve your tennis game, but reading articles,
watching videos in the web may give you different perspective. Please try my
favorite tennis page, the tennis server in the “Tennis TIPs web links” in the
first page.
5) Please send “hey coach” e-mail with your full name, phone-number to
a
tennis coach, Yasuo Fukui, YasuoFukui@gmail.com
, 408-679-7273 cell,
so that you can be in an e-mail list of PHS
boys/girls Tennis team.
Thank you.