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Covid-19 Update
28 May 2020
We are continuing to work with Tennis NZ and within Government Guidelines to provide a safe facility for our members and the public to play tennis while we are in Alert Level 2. While group numbers have increased, the same rules still apply re registering for contract tracing purposes, staying a safe distance from other players, and maintaining high levels of hygiene. The clubhouse remains closed, although toilets will be available on club days.
Please read our safety guidelines and NZ Tennis guidelines below and follow the required steps - while it's great to have been granted relatively normal access to tennis, it's really important to stay safe, for you and our wider community.
Please note the following conditions for playing at MPTC during Level 2:
- Play is now permitted outside of our bubbles, and as of Saturday 30 May in groups up to 100.
- Before you play, all players MUST COMPLETE the Tennis NZ Contact Tracing Form (failure to this will result in no further play during Covid levels.)
- All gates have been secured open to avoid any contact on entry.
- Remain 2 metres apart from other players at all times, and only use / touch your own equipment (this includes not touching other balls that wander between courts).
- Because there are no communal contact points, we have not provided hand sanitiser. Please bring your own, and wash / sanitise your hands before and after play.
- Club day tennis is running as 'normal' from Saturday 30 May, but please bring your own drink bottles and hand santitiser, and the clubhouse remains closed (although toilets will be available).
- The clubrooms & toilets remain closed at all other times.
- The carpark on Quarry Road has been resealed and is open for use.
Click here for MPTC Covid-19 safety plan.
Click here for Tennis NZ Covid-19 player guidelines.
Please note club activities have resumed but under the guidelines above and in the MPTC safety Guidelines linked above.
Continue to stay safe.
Life Membership Awarded to Mal Clarbrough
Rob Brown had the pleasure to speak a few words to Mal's Life Membership Award at our recent AGM.
"The Committee has agreed that this is an appropriate time and occasion to recognize, with gratitude, the immense contribution made by Mal to the success of the club over the preceding twelve years where he has served on the Committee, principally as our most excellent Treasurer. Mal has however many other strings to his bow, exemplified by his undertaking many other tasks and roles and from which he has emerged as a true club stalwart, and I will go further and say, that if a dollar value could be placed on human resources then Mal would feature on our balance sheet as a major club asset. And so, confident of your support, it gives me much pleasure to nominate Mal for election as a life member of the club, and Mr Chairman I move accordingly."
28 May 2020
We are continuing to work with Tennis NZ and within Government Guidelines to provide a safe facility for our members and the public to play tennis while we are in Alert Level 2. While group numbers have increased, the same rules still apply re registering for contract tracing purposes, staying a safe distance from other players, and maintaining high levels of hygiene. The clubhouse remains closed, although toilets will be available on club days.
Please read our safety guidelines and NZ Tennis guidelines below and follow the required steps - while it's great to have been granted relatively normal access to tennis, it's really important to stay safe, for you and our wider community.
Please note the following conditions for playing at MPTC during Level 2:
- Play is now permitted outside of our bubbles, and as of Saturday 30 May in groups up to 100.
- Before you play, all players MUST COMPLETE the Tennis NZ Contact Tracing Form (failure to this will result in no further play during Covid levels.)
- All gates have been secured open to avoid any contact on entry.
- Remain 2 metres apart from other players at all times, and only use / touch your own equipment (this includes not touching other balls that wander between courts).
- Because there are no communal contact points, we have not provided hand sanitiser. Please bring your own, and wash / sanitise your hands before and after play.
- Club day tennis is running as 'normal' from Saturday 30 May, but please bring your own drink bottles and hand santitiser, and the clubhouse remains closed (although toilets will be available).
- The clubrooms & toilets remain closed at all other times.
- The carpark on Quarry Road has been resealed and is open for use.
Click here for MPTC Covid-19 safety plan.
Click here for Tennis NZ Covid-19 player guidelines.
Please note club activities have resumed but under the guidelines above and in the MPTC safety Guidelines linked above.
Continue to stay safe.
Life Membership Awarded to Mal Clarbrough
Rob Brown had the pleasure to speak a few words to Mal's Life Membership Award at our recent AGM.
"The Committee has agreed that this is an appropriate time and occasion to recognize, with gratitude, the immense contribution made by Mal to the success of the club over the preceding twelve years where he has served on the Committee, principally as our most excellent Treasurer. Mal has however many other strings to his bow, exemplified by his undertaking many other tasks and roles and from which he has emerged as a true club stalwart, and I will go further and say, that if a dollar value could be placed on human resources then Mal would feature on our balance sheet as a major club asset. And so, confident of your support, it gives me much pleasure to nominate Mal for election as a life member of the club, and Mr Chairman I move accordingly."
Head Coach Update
We're very excited to have Andrew Falck stepping into Jack's Head Coaching shoes at Mt Pleasant Tennis Club. Andrew's coaching qualifications and experience are vast - he's a High Performance Coach with ITF Level 2 qualifications; he was voted Canterbury's Club Coach of the Year 2015; and High Performance Coach of the Year 2016 & 2017. It's Andrew, under his role of Hot Shots and Coach Education Coordinator at Canterbury Tennis, who coaches and develops our coaches.
Andrew will be teaming up with Dougal and Izzy (familar faces from last season) to deliver our Hot Shots Programme on Saturday mornings, and mid week Interclub coaching (to be scheduled).
In the same breath we want to acknowledge Jack and his contribution to our club over the past 12 months. He has injected a whole lot of enthusiasm and technical improvements across our junior members (and some parents via skills and drills!), and has been a privilege to work with. We know he's going be just as awesome as Head Coach for Mid Canterbury.
We're very excited to have Andrew Falck stepping into Jack's Head Coaching shoes at Mt Pleasant Tennis Club. Andrew's coaching qualifications and experience are vast - he's a High Performance Coach with ITF Level 2 qualifications; he was voted Canterbury's Club Coach of the Year 2015; and High Performance Coach of the Year 2016 & 2017. It's Andrew, under his role of Hot Shots and Coach Education Coordinator at Canterbury Tennis, who coaches and develops our coaches.
Andrew will be teaming up with Dougal and Izzy (familar faces from last season) to deliver our Hot Shots Programme on Saturday mornings, and mid week Interclub coaching (to be scheduled).
In the same breath we want to acknowledge Jack and his contribution to our club over the past 12 months. He has injected a whole lot of enthusiasm and technical improvements across our junior members (and some parents via skills and drills!), and has been a privilege to work with. We know he's going be just as awesome as Head Coach for Mid Canterbury.
