Let your Tennis Club know what Extra Hours You Do!

The head coach, director of tennis, tennis professional or club coach often do many hours that they don’t get paid for. It is nice to volunteer and do some hours for free but if you are consistently doing lots of extra hours and not getting paid for them, it can be a problem. Sometimes the club isn’t aware that you are doing these additional hours, so a good idea is to put them all down in a document and send it to them. Once they realize, then you may well get paid for them.

Some additional hours outside of coaching that you could get paid for:

Junior Coaching Programme:

• Typing up names and organise schedule for the 3 or 4 terms
• Responding to texts, emails and calls from parents
• Type up and provide Lesson Structure and Lesson Plans for fellow coaches involving printouts and videos
• Type up invoices and send to the office each term for junior coaching registration
• Sending Texts and Emails out to parents re registration
• Designing of Player Profiles
• Printouts for junior coaching such as singles & doubles tactics, footwork and mental training
• Send out coaching tips throughout year
• Video Analysis of players
• Typing up documents and editing videos for Parents Evening
• Typing up ‘Hitters List’ and contacting players
• Typing up invoices for assistant coaches and sending to the office

Leagues:

• Organising Training for League Teams
• Doing up lesson plan for training of league teams
• Sending out coaching tips throughout year
• Watching League Finals Junior Tournaments / Junior Leagues / Friendlies
• Attending and analysing Outside Tournaments with the juniors
• Attending Junior League Matches

Tournaments:

• Running club tournaments
• Provide Tournament Reviews of how our juniors got on in outside tournaments
• Look up upcoming tournaments and notify parents of details of tournament
• Keep a record of how many tournaments our juniors have played in a year
• Typing up and Designing Junior League Calendar
• Contact coach from other club to organise friendlies

Ladders and Round Robins:

• Typing up and running of Ladders
• Typing up and running of Round Robins
• Informing parents of updated ladders and boxes by email / text

Miscellaneous:

• Printing Time & Supplies
• Time spent researching and purchasing suitable tennis equipment
• Attending Coaching Conferences
• Time spent researching the latest coaching techniques
• Parents evenings

I hope this list helps! It’s no harm to try and send in what you do! All the best.

Rob Cherry