Tennis Season Begins

GTA tennis season kicks into high gear in May with tournaments, socials, ladder play, and other special events. Send your suggestions and feedback to gta@greenbelt.com.

See the Schedule below...

 

GTA Membership & Tournament Fees: No Increases For 2009

Membership is $10 for the season. Socials are free and activities are discounted for members. You'll receive advance notice of GTA events by email.

If you participate in 2 or more activities this year, you save $$$ by joining! The application is available at the GTA website. Membership pays!

The tournament draws will remain mostly ability-oriented with self-rating into A, B, or C levels. An age-oriented draw will be retained with a 50-and-over category.

 

Save the date...

• May 2 - GTA Membership Social
  Free, when you join or renew your membership!
• June 6 - Doubles Tournament
• July 18 - Firecracker Singles Tournament
  
• Sept 5 - Labor Day Social at Greenbriar Condominium Association courts
  
• Sept 19 - David Craig Single Tournament
  
• Oct 10 - David Craig Doubles Tournament

 

Tennis Ladder

Tennis ladder ladder play begins this month. We decided to try and add a new Women’s and Mixed Doubles ladder. The links to the sign-up pages are on the left menu under 'ladders' .

 

The "Greening" of GTA

In an effort to "green" Greenbelt tennis, look for new recycling bins to be installed soon on the Braden Field Courts - please place your used tennis ball canisters and beverage bottles (and anything else recyclable) in the containers.

Who knows, we may try to bring a program to Greenbelt to recycle or refurbish the tennis balls!

 

Community Outreach

Last year, the GTA received the Jim Cassal's Community Service Award ($1,000.00) to conduct a free Tennis Clinic/Program for kids.

We sponoserd a very popular clinic last fall, and this April we will be sponsoring another 8-week program with the assistance of Coach Nic Askew and the Prince George's Tennis & Education Foundation starting in April.

Hats off to Cam MacQueen and Bill Wikerson for making this happen.

 

Braden Court Resurfacing & Lights

We've been told by the City of Greenbelt that Courts 1-4 at Braden Field will be resurfaced and new lights will be installed sometime this summer. The City has asked us if we could show that there was really a demand for lights on all 8 courts.

You can send a note to Greenbelt Recreation Department Director Hank Irving or City Manager Mike McLaughlin if you want to let them know how you feel.

 

Volunteer: Improve your game and make new friends

We've expanded the steering committee to get more people actively involved in running our events.

This Year's Steering Committee includes Ellen Carter, June Dea, Al Hargrave, Emmett Jordan, Cam MacQueen, Rich Majewski, Horace Martin, and Bill Wilkerson.

We need volunteer directors & staff for each tournament. Please consider volunteering for a couple of afternoons if you can help out.

You might improve your game and make some new tennis buddies!