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Goals & Mission

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These ladies enjoy USTA team competition

    Our 3 Tennis Goals


1) Give juniors and adults a break from the internet and stress of a busy life, and replace it by getting into shape, having fun and connecting with new friends.


2) Develop young players (ages 7-12) into
highly skilled tennis players who will make
the H.S. Varsity team their freshman year.


3) Prepare high school players (ages 13-18) to excel in school competition, and to train USTA tournament players for college financial aid opportunities.

          Our Mission  

Through the coaching of tennis we emphasize two very specific life skills: 


1)  Learning how to live by principles instead of impulse, thereby not being influenced by
peer pressure, mood swings or feelings. (see philosophy page)

2)  Becoming 'Other Centered' instead of self
centered, thereby learning to pass it forward.


Do adults learn faster than the kids?

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April, who just took up tennis 5 months ago, is a quick learner.  Adults usually learn faster than kids because they listen better, remember key phrases and are more eager to learn because they understand the benefit of getting a return on their investment.

Our History

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Summer Demo Day:  kids and adults get a chance to win prizes at Jim's court & try the new racquets from Player's Tennis Shop.

The East Country Jr. Team Tennis League started in 2005 when Jim and his wife, Polly, moved to Damascus. Jim was hoping to retire at the end of a 35 year tennis career.

However, shortly after arriving in East County in March of 2005, 8 local families asked if Jim had a little extra time to develop a small tennis program for their kids in the Gresham Barlow district.  The 8 families recruited 32 kids that first summer.  The next summer 109 kids showed up and from there it has continued to grow, averaging well over 100 each year.

One reason the program has grown is due in part to providing weekly competition matches.  We have had evening matches throughout the summer that allows kids to develop mental toughness by competing every week at local high schools.  No one improves much without this.

Kids who treat tennis like a seasonal sport don't improve quickly.  This is why we added a monthly Jr. League in 2012  that ran through the winter months.  This allows kids to compete year round.  Isn't it time your children get  off the internet, turn off the phone texting and get involved in a sport that lasts a lifetime?

Director  Jim Hastings, USPTA Elite Pro

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Office Phone
(503) 421-7911


- Jim went to Kansas State University on a tennis scholarship and earned a degree in Mass Communications.  He later earned the #1 professional teacher's rating from the PTR  International Registry and the top national coaches rating of "Elite Professional" from the United States Professional Teachers Assoc.  He began his tennis coaching career in the Washington, D.C. area in the 70's and from there went  on to become the head college tennis coach at UCA-Arkansas in 1981. 

In the mid 80's Jim began helping touring pros on the ATP world circuit and assisted three #1 world ranked pros in conducting tennis programs in the United States.  Prior to that time he was the General Manager of the Manassas Indoor Racquet Club in northern Virginia near Wash., D.C..

Jim was a TV analyst / statistician for World Team Tennis and helped coach America's USTA Pro-Am team (U.S. top amateurs) at the University World Games in Buffalo, New York involving 32 countries. 

Several of his former students have been awarded tennis scholarships & financial aid to universities across America and 6 of his former students have won the Oregon High School State Championship.

Jim has been an author and teacher to the United States tennis industry over the past 28 years.  His seminars have been presented to  the following national organizations:

- Americas Intercollegiate College
  Coaches Convention, Florida
- USTA National Convention, New York
- PTR and USPTA National Conventions
 

Favorite quote: "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”   James Elliot - martyred missionary  Ecuador, 1956 


    Convention       
       Speaker

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As a national speaker to club pros and tennis industry, the following topics have been presented by Jim at  these professional conventions:

1)  USTA Nationals, New York
2)  USPTA regionals (east & west coast)
3)  ITA Intercollegiate Tennis Assoc.,
     National covention, Florida
4)  PTR - United States Professional
     Tennis Registry, South Carolina
4)  Germany, Costa Rica

Topics:
1) How to Grow Jr Programs by using the    
    new International Skills Testing Program
2) How to Motivate Students to Practice 
    Outside of Class
3) Proper Use of Match Statistics
4) Motivating the Advanced Player
5) How to Excel as Teaching Pro
6) How to Maintain Moral Integrity and
    Time Management to Avoid Burnout
7) How to Earn a College Tennis 
     Scholarship

Call Jim Hastings at (503) 421 7911 for availability at your next convention.


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