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Tennis Memphis seeks approval to run free after-school and in-school programs in Shelby County middle schools
Summary
Tennis Memphis asked the Shelby County Board committee for permission to provide free tennis and tutoring programs in middle schools beginning in Whitehaven, offering equipment, certified instruction and scholarships, and requesting district coordination with athletic leadership and background-check processes.
Tripp Willis, representing nonprofit Tennis Memphis, asked the Shelby County Board of Education’s Community Outreach and Engagement Committee on Aug. 12 for district permission to provide free in-school and after-school tennis and tutoring programs at Shelby County middle schools, starting in the Whitehaven neighborhood.
Willis said Tennis Memphis’s National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) programs pair one hour of certified teacher-led tutoring with one hour of tennis instruction, provide a healthy snack and offer scholarships into the organization’s junior development pathway. “Our number 1 mission is to bring visibility and accessibility to tennis,” Willis told the committee, and he said the group is fully funded for the next two-and-a-half years to deliver programming “at no cost for parents, for family engagement, for in the school between the bells, everything for coaches.”
The request: coordination and permission to access schools, plus…
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