Tennis Canada is delighted to announce the inaugural recipients of the newly-established Sport. Set. Fairness. Neighborhood Tennis Grant offered by Nationwide Financial institution. Spanning six provinces, the eight initiatives chosen will every obtain as much as $10,000 in funding from the dedication.
Throughout October 2022, Tennis Canada acquired 24 grant purposes from applications throughout the nation. To be thought-about for the grant, candidates needed to reveal their initiative centered on rising teaching, officiating, participation, coaching or competitors alternatives for girls and women in tennis. Following an in depth overview and choice course of, the profitable candidates have been knowledgeable in December.
“There are such a lot of people and organizations throughout the tennis business in Canada which might be doing nice work to raise ladies and women in tennis,” stated Terri Temelini, Director of Ladies & Women Development, Tennis Canada. “We all know that we have to make investments extra in ladies and women to attain gender fairness in tennis in Canada. The Sport. Set. Fairness. Neighborhood Tennis Grant offered by Nationwide Financial institution will present sources for applications to offer much more ladies and women with the chance to expertise every part tennis has to supply. It’s our hope that this funding may also strengthen and showcase group applications and entice extra ladies and women to remain concerned in tennis long-term as athletes, coaches, officers, and leaders. We thank Nationwide Financial institution for his or her continued help and congratulate the eight recipients on their choice.”
In partnership with Nationwide Financial institution, Tennis Canada is dedicated to selling equitable, inclusive and secure experiences in all areas of the game, from elevated participation to illustration in management positions, business development and offering an equal voice for girls and women. The Sport. Set. Fairness. Neighborhood Tennis Grant goals to empower the tennis group in Canada to reinforce tennis programming for girls and women.
The appliance course of for the subsequent spherical of grants will open within the coming months. For extra info, go to the Sport. Set. Fairness. part of the Tennis Canada web site, the place – within the coming months – additionally, you will be capable to learn the tales behind every of the 2022 grant recipients as a part of a brand new content material collection.
INAUGURAL GAME. SET. EQUITY. COMMUNITY TENNIS GRANT PRESENTED BY NATIONAL BANK RECIPIENTS
Tennis Grassroots Programming | Edmonton Junior Tennis Society | Meadowlark, AB | January – March, 2023
Tennis Grassroots Programming goals to encourage, develop and help extra ladies coaches and entice a better proportion of ladies to take part in EJTS aggressive applications (tournaments, leagues). The grant will assist them manage the TENNISfest 2023, during which they count on over 500 kids and adults to take part.
“Edmonton Junior Tennis Society (EJTS) is happy to have been chosen because the recipient for the Gender Fairness Grant. The grant will permit EJTS to supply TENNISfest 2023 and lift the profile of the game of tennis and our lively Edmonton space tennis group. Our Mission is to encourage children to fall in love with tennis, whereas advancing the participation of women and girls.”
-Karina Trkulja, Govt Director, Edmonton Junior Tennis Society
Women Set Match | Tennis British Columbia | British Columbia | March – December, 2023
Women Set Match will run British Columbia-wide with 4 distinct tournaments in 4 provincial zones. This tour will goal women ages U10, U12 and U14 – excluding high ranked gamers – to offer alternatives for ladies to take part in occasions to allow them to achieve expertise and to encourage them to remain within the recreation. These tournaments will probably be run by ladies lecturers and mentors.
“Receiving a gender fairness grant from Tennis Canada gives Tennis BC the sources it wants to offer equitable and inclusive play alternatives for women and girls. The funding in women’ initiatives has a direct affect on constructing stronger foundations to open doorways for women and girls to see a future for themselves within the sport, as an athlete, coach, mentor and chief.”
-Jeannie Rohr, Director of Neighborhood Growth & Teaching Certification, Tennis British Columbia
Mom-Daughter Tennis | Tennis Manitoba | Manitoba | February – August, 2023
The Mom-Daughter Tennis program will see contributors enroll alongside their dad or mum or guardian for periods whereby they are going to spend one hour on courtroom adopted by one-hour teaching periods. Coaches will determine as much as 4 U12 women to proceed onto both the aggressive stream or leisure stream pathways. The 4 women chosen will obtain as much as $500 to place in direction of an out of doors membership membership and registrations charges for tournaments.
“This initiative actually excites me as there are a number of layers to it. As soon as this system has been accomplished, it permits for contributors to proceed on a desired tennis pathway the place additional funding will probably be offered. This system itself has on-court and off-court components to it. On courtroom, degree based mostly abilities will probably be taught. Off courtroom, coaches will work together with contributors in an off-the-cuff setting over meals and drinks to debate the earlier session.”
–Mark Arndt, Govt Director, Tennis Manitoba
GLG Tennis | Women Main Women | Halifax, NS | January – Might, 2023
GLG Tennis goals to offer an surroundings for ladies to play and keep in tennis. This system helps numerous gamers and gamers who usually might not in any other case have the chance to play tennis. This system additionally helps help teenage gamers to proceed to compete and mentor new gamers. A number of of their applications devoted to ladies resumed in January and these serve a various group aged 8-14 years previous. In March, they are going to host an occasion to showcase GLG Tennis, inviting tennis gamers from all 4 Atlantic provinces.
“We started this program with the thought of introducing extra women to a sport all of us love. It has grown to be one thing much more particular. We’ve considerably extra gamers than ever earlier than and we’ve a strong base of supportive aggressive gamers. We’re happy with the varied group of gamers that GLG tennis serves. This grant provides us the chance to share our success with all of our sister provinces. We’ve an incredible group of aggressive gamers within the Atlantic provinces. At present we’ve few excessive efficiency feminine coaches and this grant affords us the flexibility to carry Laura Pola to the Atlantic provinces the place all gamers can profit and develop collectively.”
-Lillian Pappas, Co-founder, Women Main Women
Women on the Courts | A Love of Tennis | Ottawa, ON | January – December, 2023
Women on the Courts goals to empower and encourage younger women and girls to examine a future for themselves in tennis, whether or not enjoying, teaching or in management roles that make a constructive affect of their lives and communities. Every of their initiatives divides time evenly between tennis classes and crew tennis.
“Thanks to Tennis Canada and Nationwide Financial institution for generously donating $10,000 to help elevated alternatives for girls and women to take part in programming and creating subsequent technology management alternatives for girls. We at A Love of Tennis admire their contributions to our program, serving to to create a more healthy life-style for girls and women via tennis.”
–Danielle Smith, Founder, A Love of Tennis
Teaching Certification Stream | Jane Finch Neighborhood Tennis | Toronto, ON | January – June, 2023
The Teaching Certification Stream will increase its capability in coaching and subsidizing ladies contributors in acquiring their Teacher Certification and Neighborhood Tennis Facilitator standing. By leveraging skilled improvement because the centerpiece, this system will help mother and father and guardians, particularly from lower-income households, in seeing the worth of ladies and women’ participation in sports activities. For the ladies contributors who’re unable to acquire the enjoying and training competencies required to move the Teacher Certification, they are going to be given the chance to take part within the Neighborhood Tennis Facilitator Coaching.
“The funding will present an unbelievable alternative to help the event of our feminine members as coaches and tennis facilitators. It’s our perception that their profitable certification will encourage and encourage different feminine contributors to play and someday comply with of their footsteps.”
-Alan Ma, Supervisor of Particular Initiatives & Initiatives, Jane Finch Neighborhood Tennis Affiliation
Recruitment Program | Philpott Kids’s Tennis | Toronto, ON | March – September, 2023
Philpott Kids’s Tennis’ Recruitment Program help younger ladies from underserved and numerous communities to change into licensed instructors. As soon as licensed, contributors are supplied paid employment as Philpott tennis instructors the place they train tennis within the neighborhoods the place they grew up and act as position fashions and mentors to over 4,000 kids at present enrolled within the Philpott summer time applications. In 2022, greater than 80% of their instructors have been from underserved communities.
“Being an incredible coach is just not about hitting tennis balls, it’s about inspiring the way forward for our sport. We’re assured that the younger ladies that we’re coaching to change into licensed coaches will do exactly that. Our aim at Philpott Kids’s Tennis is to make sure that each younger woman that picks up a racquet in our program could have a powerful feminine coach who conjures up them to maintain coming again for extra! Teaching is just the start for these younger ladies, by going via our coach improvement program, they’re making ready themselves to be leaders in any business or profession they select and alongside the best way they are going to encourage future technology of younger women that they’ll do the identical.”
-Richard Crowell, Govt Director, Philpott Kids’s Tennis
EB Tennis Academy | EB Tennis and Modwellness | Dorval, QC | January – December, 2023
The mission of the EB Tennis Academy program is to create high quality alternatives in tennis for girls of all ages and talents. Via initiation, inspiration and participation, they search to assist and help their ladies and woman coaches, athletes and college students in direction of their very own private improvement. The funding from this grant will assist them increase and diversify their programming for girls and women, help and encourage their ladies wheelchair tennis athletes, and help with the certification of three feminine coaches.
“With three out of 4 of our senior coaches being ladies, we already embrace the worth that ladies carry to our sport. This grant will assist us create much more alternatives to carry constructive tennis experiences to feminine coaches and gamers of all ages.”
-Etienne Bergeron, Co-Proprietor, EB Tennis and Modwellness
