NorCal Division Convention 2022

USPTA NorCal

2022 Division Convention May 1, 2022 Diamond Hills Sports Club Oakley CA

President's Welcome

Welcome to the 45th Annual Division Conference!

On behalf of the entire USPTA NorCal Board, I would like to welcome all of our valued members and guests to the beautiful Diamond Hills Sports Club in Oakley. This marks the 45th year that we celebrate the sport that we love. This conference is significant in so many ways. After two years of virtual division conferences we now have the opportunity to re-connect, network, and learn alongside our amazing tennis community.

The Board has selected interactive sessions for our members to participate in because we realize this is a vital way we learn. On and off court participation will be encouraged, whether it be on the tennis court, pickleball court or under the pop-up-tents.

Lunch will be provided as we honor our 2020-2021 award winning pros. Please provide a hearty NorCal welcome to our USPTA CEO /Executive Director John Embree as he will provide us with the national update during our general membership meeting.

Our grand finale of the day will be a round table discussion hosted by Scott Borowiak, honoring our 2021 Hall of Fame inductees, Dave Houston, Ken de Hart, Rosie Bareis and Dick Gould. Light hors d’ oeuvres and drinks will be served.

Many thanks to our national endorsees which includes Wilson Sporting Goods. We will all have a chance to try their newest rackets available in our afternoon hit-a-round.

Please make sure to personally thank the staff at Diamond Hills Sports Club and Spa for providing us with a fantastic venue for our conference.

Finally, kudos to all of you, our members who value ongoing education. My hope is that treasured friendships will be resumed as well as new connections made here at the 45th Annual USPTA NorCal Divsion Convention.

Carrie Zarraonandia, President, USPTA Northern California

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Contents USPTA NorCal 47th Annual Division Convention Diamond Hills Sports Club and Spa Begins on

President's Welcome

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Convention Schedule

p. 4

Seminar Outlines

p. 7

Division Award Winners

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Exhibitor and Sponsor Listings

p. 17

Board of Directors and Past Presidents p. 47 Bylaws and Budget

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Schedule 8:00 - 4:00

Registration

9:00 - 10:00

Handling Large Groups on Limited Courts - Ogidi Obi

10:00 - 11:00

Fitness and Recovery: The Teaching Pro’s Guide to increasing Your Energy and Decreasing Injuries - Mike Zarraonandia

11:00 - 12:30 A Journey to Now: Playing, to coaching and all the drills/games in between - Amanda Fink Moore 12:30 - 2:00

Awards Lunch/General Meeting with National Update from CEO John Embree

2:00 - 3:30

Get Out and Hit - Great Drills from East Bay Pros - Anoosh Davoudzadeh -

3:30 - 4:30

Under 12 Player Development - Thomas Le

4:30 - 5:30

Pickleball Party - Carrie Zarraonandia

5:30 - 7:00

Enjoy heavy appetizers while Scott Borowiak interviews our new Hall of Fame inductees Dick Gould, Rosie Bareis, Ken DeHart and Dave Houston.

SAVE THE DATE The USPTA World Conference is headed back to New Orleans!!

9/18/2022 - 9/22/2022 more information coming soon

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The USPTA Northern California thanks our National endorsees for their support

and HUGE THANKS to our partners at the USTA NorCal!

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You will receive an email immediately to confirm your credit has been registered. If you don’t receive an email, try again

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Seminar Outlines

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Handling Large Groups with Limited Courts

Ogidi Obi Sunday, May 1 - 9:00 a.m

Ogidi is the Assistant Director of Racquet Sports at Alpine Hills Tennis and Swim Club in Portola Valley, CA. Prior to coming to Alpine Ogidi was the Director of Junior Development at Eagle Fustar Tennis Academy. In addition to his responsibilities at Alpine Ogidi is a USTA High Performance and Early Development Center Coach. Ogidi is a graduate of Columbia University where he was a member of the tennis team.

Coco Gauff - Forehand Milos Raonic - Two-Handed Backhand Andrei Rublev - Serve

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Fitness and Recovery: The Teaching Pro’s Guide to Increasing Your Energy and Decreasing Injuries

Mike Zarroanandia Sunday, May 1 at 10:00 am Mike Zarraonandia brings his combination of tennis and fitness experience to you as a: A NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Traveling Coach, Fitness Speaker, Published Fitness Writer USTA Men's 45's #2 in San Diego, 2021

This exciting presentation with Mike Z of Ztechniquefitness, will help add to your exciteas a teaching pro with strategies to improve your overall tennis fitness!

Rotations

Improve in the following areas with a short dip, or a deep dive!

Movement Nutrition Sleep Mindset

Feeding Review of the components of fitness and how they relate to teaching pros. Mike will

help pros determine their fitness strengths and weaknesses. The interactive warm ups and active recovery protocols help to increase on court energy and reduce injury!

Mike will help you plan to “win the day” using strategies you’ll want to share with your students to keep them excited about playing tennis today and for a lifetime.

Cardio Blast PRESENTATION

A) Tennis Pros and Fitness - Linking the movement demands of today’s pros to fitness B) Learning the Five Facets of Fitness - Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, Recovery, Mindset, Q and A

Notes C) Self Rating - FIVE FACETS OF FITNESS QUIZ and setting priorities, affirmations, scheduling and daily planning

D) Interactive active warm up, recovery, stretching, recovery toolbox. What’s in your bag?… Stretch bands, lacrosse balls, massage gun, electrolyte supplements E) Review - Gain agreement to one new weekly improvement 9

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Mike Zarraonandia Fitness and Recovery

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A Journey to Now: Playing to Coaching and all the Drills/Games Between

Amanda Fink-Moore Sunday, May 1 - 11:00 - 12:30 Amanda Fink is the head pro at La Paloma Country Club in Tucson, Arizona. Fink has been bringing new groups of people to tennis through the programs she has run and has been connecting upcoming professionals through USPTA Elevate. She currently serves as co-chair of the national Elevate committee. On the USPTA side she has won the pro of the year and star award for her division as well as a U30 national award in 2019.

With USTA related projects, she won the San Diego district pro of the year award in 2016 and a Southern California USTA service award in 2019. Fink was also inducted into the Southern California Jewish Hall of Fame in 2015. She works with players and groups of all ages/levels with an emphasis on personal connections with students and being able to move/keep the fun in larger groups of players.

Amanda played tennis for USC from 2005-2009 where she was a three time AllAmerican. She earned a PAC 10 team title, a singles title, and two PAC 10 doubles titles.

After graduating with a degree in psychology, Amanda played on the WTA tour for three years. She reached a world ranking high of 269 and 232 in singles and doubles respectively, winning a singles title and three doubles titles.

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Amanda Fink Moore A Journey to Now: playing to coaching and all the drills/games in between

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JOIN US FOR LUNCH featuring John Embree - USPTA CEO National Update and Norcal Awards Presentation PRO OF THE YEAR CARRIE ZARRAONANDIA HIGH SCHOOL COACH OF THE YEAR PJ MAPUMULO DIVERSITY AWARD RHONDA GIBBS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT ANDREA BARNES TEAM ELEVATE AWARD STEPHANIE LUK

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Get Out and Hit: Great Drills from East Bay Pros

Anoosh Davoudzadeh Sunday, May 1 - 2:00 to 3:30

Join your fellow pros on court to participate in drills you can use in your program tomorrow!

Team Elevate Drill Share

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The Art of Playing Good Defense Craig Kardon

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Improving Players’ Development - Competitive Player Development

ThomasLeLe Thomas

Sunday, May 1 3:30 - 4:30 Thomas first picked up tennis in his native home - Vietnam. Tom continued to play and compete throughout high School and college in California. After spending time as the Men's Tennis Coach at De Anza College and as an associate pro at Fremont Hills Country Club in Los Altos Hills directing the competitive junior program. Tom moved on to became Director of Tennis for the Rancho Santa Teresa Swim and Racquet Club in San Jose, where he started his own tennis program, NorCal Tennis Academy. Since its inception in 2003, NorCal Tennis Academy has developed numerous Norcal and nationally ranked players. In addition it has been recognized by USTA Northern California with their 2017 Outstanding Program award and in 2015 and 16 as their Junior Team Tennis Program of the Year.

A. Player’s Development

Improving level means competing better and gradually raising your rating and gradually raising your rating and ranking. Regardless of age, players with the goal of only playing HS tennis will differ from those wo are looking for college tennis down the road.

1) Do they have decent strokes and (relatively) proper positioning? a. Keep it simple, don’t over analyze and over coach b. Stance, weight shift and footwork are very crucial 2) Can player handle rally? a.Easy rallies b. Change balls c. Difficult/out of position 3) Can player defend and attack Profile the player, what are some of their strengths and weaknesses. Build a game around that. a. Aggressive rally b. Defeding and attacking (shot selection) c. Player’s strokes can and will improve 4) Organizing Player’s Game Be very clear! There are only 3 balls (shots) in tennis - rally ball, defending ball, or attacking ball.

Always keep in mind the opponent that the player may face in competition when structuring drills. a. Combination of defending and attacking patterns b. Improving both player’s weaknesses and strengths c. Higher level means higher instensity, speed and aggression B. Rating or Ranking 1) Rating vs. Ranking 2) When is ranking important and when is rating important?

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Cardio Pickleball Party - Come Join the Fun

Carrie Zarraonandia Sunday, May 1 4:30 to 5:30 Carrie Zarraonandia has over 35 years of service to the United States Professional Tennis Association. She is the current NorCal Division President as well as the Head Pickleball Coach Developer.

While attending the University of Californa at Davis she helped her team win the D3 title as an All-American. Carrie holds seven USTA National titles as well as the #1 ranking in the 35’s age group.

She is also a certified trainer for the Positive Coaching Alliance and has facilitated workshops for coaches, parents and athletes nationwide.

Carrie currently coaches at The Claremont Club and Spa in Berkeley, CA This interactive cardio cickleball session will show you how to incorporate heart pumping pickleball activities for you players no matter their ability or skill level. Let’s step it up!

1) Intro to cardio pickleball, making a fast paced game even faster 2) Let’s get moving (all activities will be supported by “sideline activities” a) difference between pickleball and tennis footwork •3) Warm Game styles up • a)Power popcorn vs self Power rally with side shuffles, front lunges, alternating b) flip flop rallies with partner c) finding the novolley zone line 4) Dink the dink a) coach fed ball, into the “red zone” below the knees (defense ofr reset) b) “yellow zone” net level (neutral +) c) “green zone” smack down (offense) 5) Games 7 up - first players to hit 7 ball into opponent’s red zone during a rally says”7 Up” • a)Serving Attack and Defend - both players start the point from the baseline • b)Receiving Attacker (challenger) self feeds to Defender and gains position at the NVZ line (net). Attacker wins two points, takes defender’s spot.

6) Cool down and stretches 7) Q & A See handout for YouTube videos from NorCal Tennis Academy 19

2022 Legends Interview and Hall of Fame Inductions Join us at the end of the day for the induction of our inaugural Hall of Fame Class

Roselani Bareis Ken DeHart Dick Gould Dave Houston Our Legends Interview emcee Scott Borowiak

Following the induction enjoy our Legends Interview with the four inductees conducted by Scott Borowiak. As the longtime emcee for USTA NorCal’s “Legends Interviews”, Scott has chatted with many outstanding industry leaders.

In 1981 Scott established Scott Borowiak Tennis and Golf Tours and is now running a successful travel business. In addition, he is currently Director of Tennis at the Moraga Valley Tennis Club in Orinda.

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USPTA NorCal 2022 Budget

2022 Budget INCOME 1801 Dues from National 1802 Investment Income 1803 Tournaments 1804 Conferences and Conventions 1805 Meetings 1810 Miscellaneous TOTAL INCOME

EXPENSES 1850 Meeting and Events 1851 Office Supplies/operational expense 1852 Telephone 1853 Travel 1854 Advertising 1855 Tournaments 1856 Conference-Conventiontion 1857 ED Salary 1859 Non-Employee Compensation 1861 Newsletter Publications 1862 Postage 1881 Charitable Donations TOTAL EXPENSES

45,00 0 3,000 23,000 9,000 80,000

300 500 0 6,500 6,000 21,000 16,000 27,500 1,050 300 150 300 79600

OVERALL TOTAL

740

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USPTA NorCal 2021 Financial Report 2022 Budget 2022 Budget INCOME 1801 Dues 1802 Interest/Investment Income 1803 Tournaments 1804 Conferences and Conventions TOTAL INCOME

EXPENSES 1850 Meetings and Events 1851 Supplies-Operational Exp's 1853 Travel 1854 Advertising 1855 Tournament Expenses 1856 Conference-Convention 1857 Divisional Salary 1859 Non-employee compensation 1861 Newsletter/Publications 1880 Postage 1881 Charitable Donations TOTAL EXPENSES

OVERALL TOTAL

45,000 3000 23,000 9,000

2021 Actuals 46849 1603 15886 8293

1,500 80000

72631

300 500 6,500 6,000 21,000 16,100 27,500 1,050 300 150 300 79600

601 322 2,700 3,575 15,165 17,286 28,263

400

9 67921

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USPTA NorCal Regional Directors

What’s Your Region?

Redwood

includes Del Norte, Siskiyou, Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta Mendocino and Lake coun es Regional Director: Peter Dauphinee peter@humbold ennisclub.com

Marin‐Sonoma

includes Marin and Sonoma coun es Regional Director: Corky Cramer corkyc@sonic.net

Napa‐Solano

Includes Napa, Solano, Yolo and Colusa coun es Regional Director: n n nsen s g

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Sacramento

includes Sacramento, Su er, Yuba and Bu e coun es and parts of El Dorado, Placer, Nevada and Sierra coun es west of the Sierra crest Regional Director: e ter n dfongtennis@gmail.com

Tahoe‐Reno

includes Alpine county and parts of El Dorado, Placer, Nevada and Sierra coun es east of the Sierra crest Regional Director: Christy Funk n ennis e o

San Francisco

includes San Francisco county Regional Director: Jason Blum Jblum@usptapro.com

Contra Costa

includes Contra Costa county Regional Director: n s ee

Alameda County

includes Alameda county Regional Director: Wendell Pierce WP606060@gmail.com

Peninsula

includes San Mateo county and parts of Santa Clara county (Los Altos, Stanford, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, , Campbell, CuperƟno, Los Gatos, Redwood Estates, Saratoga) Regional Director: Stephanie Luk

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Santa Cruz‐Monterey includes Santa Cruz and Monterey coun es Regional Director: Gay Finch gay10sfinch@gmail.com Santa Clara‐ San Benito

includes San Benito and the parts of Santa Clara county not in the Peninsula region Regional Director: Ken DeHart kendehart@aol.com

Central Valley

includes Merced, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa counƟes Regional Director: position open

Fresno

includes Fresno, Madera, Mono, Inyo, Tulare and Kings coun es Regional Director: Sandra Gostanian slkguspta@a .net

Northern California

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USPTA NorCal Past Presidents 2020 - 2021 2018 - 2019

John Dale Evans Bill Weber

2015 - 2017

Monty Basnyat

2013 - 2014

Andrea Barnes

2010 - 2012

John Sharpe

2009 - 2010

Mike Galli

2007 - 2008

Paul Garron

2005 - 2006

Nei l Arch er

2004

Carl Mendoza

2002 - 2003

Ro si e Barei s

2000 - 2001

Mi ch ael F ri ed man

1998 - 1999

Mark Fai rchilds

1996 - 1997

Po l l y Moore Nab er

1994 - 1995

Ji m McLennan

1992 - 1993

Bi l l Rap p

1990 - 1991

Dave Houston

1988 - 1989

Do u g Atki n son

1986 - 1987

L arr y Parker

1984 - 1985

John Weston

1980 - 1983

Gordon Collins

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