We love wheelchair tennis!

This past weekend, we hosted a Wheelchair Tennis All Comers Camp for the United States Tennis Association. All-Comers Camps are day and a half tennis camps for youth up to age 18 (Our participants ranged in age from 7-15.) who want to learn more about and grow in the sport of wheelchair tennis. Designed to provide instruction and play opportunities for youth of any skill and experience level, it is a social and semi-competitive environment for kids to have fun playing wheelchair tennis. The hope is that kids who aren’t yet skilled enough to play traditional wheelchair tennis matches will get a stepping stone into playing competitively in the future as a result of the camp. Our camp featured two guest coaches from Alabama, one who has been a head coach of camps in the past and a 3-time Collegiate National Champion wheelchair tennis player for the University of Alabama. Participants spent the first day learning and practicing the four shots in wheelchair tennis, chair mobility, and tactics for playing a point, and then they got to learn how to keep score and compete in the second day. A film crew was on hand from NECAT Network that included ABLE Youth alum, Alexandra. May is National Tennis Month, and we lived it up in full force! Athletes had a blast and learned a lot in the process. We can’t wait to see where these athletes take their skills from here. We see them entering tournaments and hopefully playing collegiately in the future. Thank you SO much to our coaches and volunteers for making the camp so successful and so much fun!