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USTA Southern’s Advocacy Task Force is responsible for providing advice and guidance to states and communities that are looking to grow their tennis programs and facilities.
Your Southern Advocacy Consultants can help communities turn dreams into reality through the USTA Public Facility Assistance Program. Whether you're trying to figure out how to advocate for tennis in your parks, schools or on a college campus, there is help for everyone.
USTA Public Facility Assistance
Are you looking for assistance with the maintenance or construction of tennis courts? Just follow these simple steps to get started!
STEP 1: To receive any assistance from the USTA or USTA Southern, a Facility Assistance Form must be completed. You can fill out this form online. Sorry, right now the form is being revised and is not working. Please return here shortly.
STEP 2: You will be contacted by a USTA Southern Advocacy Consultant within 30 days of submitting your Facility Assistance Form for a follow-up phone conference. At this time you will work with the consultant to develop a more extensive maintenance or construction plan.
- For a full review of this particular process, please see A Guide to Public Facility Assistance.
- For general information about USTA Public Facility Assistance, please visit www.usta.com/technical.
- If you would like to be an advocate for a project in your area, click here to view all current facility projects in USTA Southern.
USTA Southern QuickStart Line Grant
QuickStart is exploding in USTA Southern! To view communities in the process of painting permanent lines and building permanent courts, click
here. For a list of completed QuickStart projects click
here. For a list of line projects, click
here.
Painting permanent QuickStart tennis lines at your facility is a big step toward building and supporting a format that will change the face of youth tennis in America. These lines do not affect play for players using the whole court. Funding is available from the USTA Southern Section and the Southern Tennis Patrons Foundation to assist communities with the cost of painting QuickStart tennis lines on existing courts.
STEP 1: To qualify for the USTA Southern QuickStart Line grant, a Facility Assistance Form must be completed. This form, the same one that is described above, can be filled out online. Sorry, right now the form is being revised and is not working. Please return here shortly.
STEP 2: Upon receipt of your Facility Assistance Form, a Southern Advocacy Consultant will contact you by phone within 2-3 weeks. They will answer any questions and explain exactly what is needed to complete your request.
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For more information on the USTA Southern QuickStart Line Grant, please review the QuickStart Information documents by clicking
here, or contact a USTA Southern Advocacy Consultant for assistance. A list of the consultants is below.
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- For accurate specifications to share with your contractor or painter, click here.
- For generic concepts to line 36' and 60' courts, click here.
Your Southern Advocacy Consultants can help communities turn dreams into reality through the USTA Public Facility Assistance Program. Whether you're trying to figure out how to advocate for tennis in your parks, schools or on a college campus, there is help for everyone. At the USTA Semiannual meeting a decision was ratified to require all sanctioned 8 and under play take place on 36 foot courts. To read the decision, click here.
Download a Powerpoint presentation that will help convince local Park and Recreation staff about the importance of getting kids to play QuickStart tennis, and customize it for your own community.
Collegiate Advocacy
Whether you're interested in promoting recreational tennis on college campuses or helping to keep varsity tennis strong on your own college campus, link into our network of like-minded collegiate advocates. The Intercollegiate Tennis Association has a
College Advocacy Network that promotes the preservation of varsity teams on college campuses around the country. The USTA's
Tennis on Campus program provides a great opportunity to keep young adults active and healthy while participating in the sport they love throughout their college years. If you enjoyed playing high school tennis, junior tournaments, or just want to connect with other tennis players on your campus, here's your opportunity. Co-ed, competitive, instant social network... what's not to love?
Publicity
A fantastic article was published in the November 2008 issue of Parks & Recreation magazine that explains and extols the work of the USTA National Advocacy Task Force. The piece was written by Robin Bateman, winner of the USTA Southern's 2007 Marc Kaplan Media Excellence Award.
Download the article. Here's another outstanding
article that appeared about QuickStart tennis in Cary, N.C.
The Big Serve
The USTA and USTA Southern have also created a cache of tools to help community organizers with their effort to advocate for public tennis facilities. View them at
www.thebigserve.com. Of significant value is the National Advocacy Handbook and the Southern Section Advocacy Handbook. Both of these handbooks were created to help communities form a solid foundation on which to embark on a facility or program enhancement project.