MHSTeCA's Forum Page

This page is being set up to allow coaches from around the state to express their opinions on topics concerning tennis in the State of Michigan. Listed below are several items that have come up at Board of Directors meetings. Please feel free to comment on any of them, pro or con, or any other items that pertain to tennis.

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Topics up for decision:

We are looking for your input concerning two events that occur during the Clinic. Currently the Hall of Fame Banquet is held Friday evening and the Annual Membership Meeting is held Saturday morning. It has been suggested that the Hall of Fame Banquet become a luncheon on Friday and/or the Annual Membership meeting be held at 4:00 pm on Friday afternoon.

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Since the Coaches' Directory has been placed on the web (password protected), we have had a couple of requests from college coaches who would like to be able to access the directory without becoming a member of our Association. So far, we have not given out the password (or the directory) unless they join. Your thoughts on this.

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Allow up to three players of the opposite sex to practice with a team during the course of the season. Rationale:
- Allows the opposite sex to assist in practices (managers, ball feeders, etc.)

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To establish an Ethics Committee to help deal with various ethical problems, such as 'stacking". Warren Block has volunteered to be the coordinator for this.

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Limit the size of Regionals to a maximum of eight teams and to change the number of points to 10 or more to qualify to the Final Tournament. All of the other regulations would remain in effect. Rationale:

More schools could host Regionals.
Fewer courts needed and the Regional would be more manageable.
Reduce the number of sites needed to run a Regional, thus minimize having players at more than one site.
The Regionals could be completed in one day because of only having three rounds to play.
If weather was a problem, fewer matches would be played indoors.
Distances to Regionals would be reduced.
With 11 Regionals in each division, there would be at least 22 teams qualifying to the Final Tournament. This would help to reduce the large number of byes.
This could help resolve some of the problems of "loaded Regionals".

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Allow the Upper Peninsula schools to participate in the Regionals and Final Tennis Tournament with the Lower Peninsula (this would eliminate the U.P Tournaments).

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Regional and Final Tournament proposal(s), one by Steve Bender & one by Pat Bentley. Both are similar, but at the moment let's just deal with the concept - change current format to an Individual Flight Tournament and a Team (dual) Tournament. Here is a basic schedule that would cover the last four weeks of the season:
- fourth to last week - Team (dual) District play during the week
- third to last week - Team (dual) Regional play on Tuesday & Individual flight play Thursday through Saturday
- second to last week - Team (dual) Quarterfinals on Tuesday & Final Four on Friday & Saturday
- last week - Individual Flight State Finals

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