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It is important to note that your new sport club tennis team will offer much more than just tennis. There are an incredible number of fringe benefits to such a club. First, there are leadership opportunities. Your members run the team, filling board positions like President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer. These are all fantastic learning opportunities that will lend great experience and look great on resumes upon graduation. It is also a place that can make a large college campus seem small. If your campus is enormous, your club tennis team will offer a smaller community for your members who share the same passion: tennis!

This leads into another aspect: friendship. Your sport club tennis team is a great place to meet new people and make new friends while in college. You get to practice together, play together, socialize together, and will most likely take some of the same classes as some of your teammates.

The sport club tennis team can coordinate social events, too. Events like bowling, miniature golf, whirlyball, paintball, team dinners, professional sporting events, haunted houses, skiing, snowboarding, etc. are all fantastic “extras” that can be organized by your club tennis team. These provide your club with alternative ways to hang out and have a good time besides playing tennis. Other social events that club members will benefit from include get-togethers that people throw at their houses, meeting for coffee, and studying for exams. These lists are truly endless and are only limited by your imagination.

One last fringe benefit that must not go unmentioned is the opportunity to travel. Whether your club tennis team travels across town to play another college, across the state to play a rival, or across the country to compete in the USTA Campus Championship, your members will have opportunities to see parts of the country they have not seen before.

The benefits that come along with being a part of the club tennis team are second to none. In some ways it can be very much like a sorority or fraternity, except that it revolves around the wonderful sport of tennis. Members will find best friends, roommates, study partners, and perhaps even romance within the club.

"Club tennis has been an incredible experience. I came to campus last year as a graduate student, having played tennis at the varsity level as an undergrad. I have been able to make friends  on the team that will last a lifetime. It has  been much easier  to make friends on the club team and especially much easier  to make friends on opposing teams then when I played varsity collegiate tennis." - Matt Jacobs, Ventura, CA

"All of a sudden, after playing tennis competitely for years, I had no plans to play and I felt a bit lost. Then I learned about the club tennis team and began meeting some really great people. My senior year I lived with two girls from the team who have turned out to be two of my best friends.  I can honestly say that joining the club tennis team has been the most positive, fun, and consistent group I've been a part of at college.” - Katie Johnstone, Deerfield, IL

 

 

 

 

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