City Skills Assessments for Adult Clinics 3/4/14

The City of Tallahassee will be holding skills assessments and registration for city clinics on Tuesday March 4th at 6:00pm at Forestmeadows Park and Athletic Center.  This is for the session that begins March 10th. If you wish to remain in the same class as the previous session, you may sign up anytime and are not required to do another assessment nor attend the registration.

If, however, you wish to change classes but remain at the same level, you must come to the registration in order to sign up.  If you wish to change levels, you must attend the registration and take the skills assessment.  Your score will determine what level to sign up for.  If you have taken a break from clinics the past two sessions, do not have a computer NTRP rating, and have not been skill assessed, you must attend the registration and take the skills assessment in order to sign up for a clinic. Those with a current COMPUTER NTRP rating do not have to be assessed for placement in a clinic, but do need to come to the registration.  Those who self rated do have to be assessed in order to be placed.

Beginners do not have to take the skill assessment, and can simply come to the registration or sign up online.  No one else may sign up online but beginners.

There are five parts to the skill assessments -

Groundstrokes for Depth
Volleys for Depth
Gorundstrokes for Accuracy
Serves
Mobility

Each section will have a score, and the total score will correspond to your level for clinic placement.  It should take around 15-20 minutes.

If you cannot attend the skill assessment and need to be assessed, you may take a 30 minute private lesson with one of our pros who can do the assessment, and get warmed up and take the assessment.  The cost will vary depending on which pro is available.  Call 850-891-3920 in order to be set up with one of the pros.

This process has now been in place through two sessions, and we have smoothed out most of the issues we have dealt with because of the change.  It should run very smoothly.  We have taken subjectivity out of the equation as it pertains to advancement, and replaced it with an objective standardized method.  This has greatly improved the consistency of levels within each clinic.

Juniors must also come to the registration in order to sign up, but there is no assessment in place for them to take as of yet.

Please be advised that as of Sunday March 9, decisions will be made as to what adult and junior clinics will make and which ones will be canceled.  You must sign up by March 9th to help ensure that your clinic will make.  If fewer than 5 are registered, the clinic will be canceled for the session.  This means do not wait until the first day of class to sign up - you may be out of luck.

If you have any questions about clinic registration, please contact Forestmeadows at 850-891-3920.