Winter Tennis Camps at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington
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- Written by: Donald Clark
UNCW SEAHAWKS WINTER TENNIS CAMPS
Dear Coach,
UNC-Wilmington Seahawks’ Tennis Coaching Staff would like to invite your players and students to come train with Seahawk Tennis this winter. We are hosting two sessions of Winter Tennis Camp for High School players
(Boys and Girls). These camps are directed by UNCW Head Tennis Coach Hans Olsen and his players from the UNCW team.
December 14-15, 2024 will be our “Doubles Focus” tennis camp to help High School players (Boys and Girls) and players that hope to make their High School team develop their doubles skills. Our coaching is a
process-oriented approach that will help everyone improve their movement, tactics/strategy, technique and enjoyment for their doubles game! You may sign-up for the doubles camp by yourself or with a doubles partner.
January 4-5, 2025 will be our “Singles Focus” tennis camp to work on each players singles game (Boys and Girls). Our focus will include footwork, patterns of play, racquet acceleration and the mental game. Our
program emphasizes a process-oriented system of developing tennis players to reach their next level, whether trying to make the high school team for the first time or wanting to better their position in the line-up.
Each day of these winter camps will begin at 10:00 am and finish at 2:30 pm (Saturday and Sunday). The price for each of the 2-day camps is $190 and registration is available at SEAHAWKTENNISCAMP.COM
If there is inclement weather, we will adjust the start/finish time on that day if that helps with the weather. Or if it is a complete cancel for the day due to weather, then we will issue everyone a full refund.
Please contact UNCW Head Tennis Coach, Hans Olsen at
camps and registration.
We look forward to working with you and your players on the Seahawk Tennis Courts at UNC Wilmington.
Sincerely,
Hans Olsen
Head Tennis Coach
UNC-Wilmington
919-819-8313
No commentsNorth Carolina Women's Tennis Most Coaching Wins (Active Coaches)
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| Current Rank | Name | School(s) | Wins | Losses | Seasons | Notes |
| #1 | John Frye | Union Pines | 662 | 78 | 44 | |
| #2 | Jo Cabana | Charlotte Catholic | 650 | 81 | 32 | (55-1 at St. Thomas Aquinas in Florida, 164-7 at Cardinal Gibbons in Florida) |
| #3 | Donald Clark | Charles B. Aycock | 485 | 206 | 29 | 437-186 in 26 years at Greene Central; 48-20 in three years at Charles B. Aycock |
| #4 | Andrew Tuttle | Cardinal Gibbons | 379 | 96 | 21 | (first four years at Green Hope, one at Cary, one at N.C. School of Science and Math) |
| #5 | Lee Matthews | Wilson Fike | 393 | 111 | 25 | |
| #6 | Ed Flynn | Charlotte Myers Park | 318 | 38 | 20 | (does not include years at North Mecklenburg) |
| #7 | Kenneth Stivason | Clayton |
Revised Dual Team Lineup Sheet
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- Written by: Vic Ramsey
For the past several years, the NCHSAA has required the use of a "dual-team lineup sheet", which coaches exchange prior to the beginning of the match.
Over the summer, NCHSTCA leadership, working with Caitlin McMannen at NCHSAA, revised the lineup sheet to address several shortcomings of the previous version, and to reduce confusion about what coaches can and cannot do with their dual-team lineups.
In addtion, we've written a "user's guide" to the revised lineup sheet, to explain what's changed and how the lineup sheet is to be used.
Click here for a .pdf copy of the lineup sheet, and for a copy of the user's guide.
An interactive Excel version of the lineup sheet, which you can download and complete on your own computer, is being emailed to all coaches for whom we have an accurate email address. If you have not received your copy, please send an email to our
NCHSTCA Board Recommends Realignment Principles
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- Written by: Vic Ramsey
The hot topic among coaches, athletic directors, and others interested in North Carolina high sports is "what will the 2025-26 realignment look like with eight classifications?".
The NCHSTCA Board of Directors held a lengthy discussion on this question at its June Board meeting, and adopted a "Statement of Principles" that we would urge the NCHSAA to consider as it addresses the 2025 realignment.
Those principles are:
- Broad Participation in State Tournaments - We would like to see playoff brackets that are as large as feasible.
- Equitable Access to the State Tournaments - We believe that every school should have roughly the same chance of making the playoffs as any other school, regardless of classification.
- Better Early-Round Experiences for All Schools - We believe the playoff brackets should be "staggered", such that elite teams receive early-round byes, while average teams play one another in better, more competitive contests.
- Conferences Based on Geography and Local Rivalry - We believe it's more important to group schools in conferences with nearby teams, with a lower priority being given to grouping schools in the same classification across a larger geographic area.
- Ending Preferential Seeding Based on Conference Standing - Because more schools will find themselves in split conferences, we believe that brackets should be constructed based on RPI ratings alone.
While we acknowledge that we have no authority over the realignment process, we do have direct experience in high school tennis, and have shared these principles with the various NCHSAA committees and task forces that are dealing with the realignment process.
Click here for the complete Statement of Principles as adopted by the NCHSTCA Board of Directors.
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