AGM Coaches report 2018

This year the coaching team have run several different successful coaching programmes.

These include:

• Junior Squads x 3 courses over the year. These vary from U10s all the way up to U16’s. These groups are always popular - particularly amongst the little ones - and we hope to put on some more sessions next year.
• Adults Match Plays - from end of league season to start of new season - we average around 16-20 people attending these sessions every week. These are just doubles match play sessions organised by myself. Anyone is welcome.
• Tennis Xpress x 3 courses - beginners sessions take place on Monday’s and advanced sessions on a Thursday. These sessions have been very popular and pretty much fully booked up all year round.
• Junior Club Nights - April - September - Margaret has again run these sessions with great success and hopefully will continue to do so for another year or so.
• Cardio Tennis - runs throughout the year on Tuesday and Fridays typically. These sessions are pretty well attended and also help contribute towards the clubs earnings.

Individual lessons - Between myself and Joel we do on average around 30-40 hours worth of coaching each week. This just goes to show the interest in all of our members to improve upon their tennis.

2 junior tournaments - start of season and end of season - we run 2 junior tournaments over the year due to the ever increasing demand of competitive play amongst are juniors. This shows in our junior teams which I’ll come on to.

Winter League - We started a new winter doubles league in late September which has been a massive success. Hopefully these sessions will help our adults teams in their quest for promotion next season. Congratulations must go to Debbie for coming up with the idea. These sessions will continue to run for the time being. Going forwards we are going to run these sessions on 4 courts instead of the full 6 to allow for any members who don’t want to play in the league to play socially on the remaining 2 courts as part of adults club night.

All of the above sessions have helped turn over a profit of £2088 for the tennis club.

Coaching Team 

Currently there is just myself and Joel working together on the coaching team. We may look to utilise Ollie Morris as and when required as he has now returned from Tennis coaching work in Camp America. Between us we are covering all of the coaching sessions that take place at the club. 

Junior Teams

As a club we entered 4 junior teams into the Southport and district leagues with our U16 girls team coming 2nd in their league. We are already looking towards adding more teams next season due to the ever increasing demand from our junior section. Margaret Lyons has run the junior club nights throughout the course of the year which has been a huge achievement and have also helped us attract a number of new junior members to the club. There have also been a number of adult helpers who have kindly volunteered their services throughout the year. We as a club would like to say thank you for this and hope you will continue to support these sessions with your help.

Junior Tournaments 

This year I have organised two junior tournaments (start of season and end of season). This keeps the juniors playing throughout the winter and summer months. Both of these tournaments were extremely popular and we plan to continue running the two tournaments again next year.

Schools Coaching

We are now actively coaching in all of the primary schools and high schools in Formby. We offer Tennis coaching to all year groups at all of these schools and work closely with these schools to try and encourage more kids to come and play tennis and hopefully join our club.

Plans for 2019

More Cardio....

Due to the ever increasing popularity of cardio tennis we will be looking at putting on extra sessions in the daytimes and evenings where possible.

Intra Schools competition....

I have already been leasing with a number of the primary schools in the area. We are looking into the idea of running a yearly competition between all of the primary schools in Formby. Ideally it would be nice to run this competition at the club itself as it will hopefully attract some new members and generate some positive publicity around the club.

Mens & Women’s Singles League....

Finally we are looking into the possibility of organising a men’s and women’s internal singles league as I have had a number of requests about this. 

We do a lot of doubles at the club and I’m aware that there is an increasing interest in some singles play.

Danny McShane (Head Coach - Formby Lawn Tennis Club)
Email: mcshane_danny@hotmail.com
Mobile: 07900998754
Website: http://clubspark.lta.org.uk/DannyMcshaneCoaching