Welcome to all new and existing junior members. Junior members represent almost half of our club membership and are very important to the club – they are our future!
The club offers a range of activities for junior members:
- The main activity is coaching. Group coaching and private coaching is available for all ages and all abilities. For more information see COACHING.
- During the summer holidays fun tournaments take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in July and August.
- Matchplay, organised competitive games for children, runs for 10 weeks starting in September and March each year. Children aged 8 to 16 can take part in supervised, scheduled matchplay on Saturday or Sunday after 12 noon depending on group.
- Junior competitions held at the club include the The Junior Open week in the middle of July (open to juniors from any club) and Junior Club Championships which take place at the end of August (for junior club members only).
- Other tournaments and social events take place during holiday breaks and at weekends.
Details of all these events will be on the Junior notice board and on our Facebook page.
NEWS: Kilkenny LTC Junior Tennis 2019
There is a full program of Tennis planned for all Juniors for 2019 in the club.
A series of meetings have taken place in recent weeks and a permanent Junior Committee is
now in place in the club (to be elected yearly).
There is now a full yearly plan for Junior Tennis in the Club.
The plan includes a move immediately to a fixed Yearly Calendar agreed in advance for all Junior Events (as is currently the case in recent years with the Club’s Senior Calendar).
The Current Junior Matchplay (from 2018) will finish next week with finals Sunday 24th of February to allow for the
New Junior events to commence in early March 2019.
There will be a new Junior Spring Matchplay with fixed dates where players will be expected to
be available for a minimum of 5 of the 8 dates/weekends and the dates for the Finals is now fixed
and will not be changed.
There will be another Junior competition run concurrently for Secondary School Children only
which will be focused on Doubles and mixed and will be on a league basis.
Again the dates for this are now set and the competition will definitely be going ahead.
Entries are open closing on the 18th of February.
For the remainder of the year there will be a monthly Saturday Night Social Tournament for
Secondary School Children, again where the dates are now fixed. The next one is 23rd of February. Please refer to the new Junior Calendar online.
For 2019 the club will be making a huge effort to stick rigidly to the calendar and we will need the co-operation of all parents to achieve all the goals and ensure the smooth running of the events.
All Match-plays and Leagues will be entry online only with payment.
JUNIOR ACCESS TO COURTS
There are a few basic rules about access to courts for our Junior members.
- AT ALL TIMES Courts 3 & 4 are reserved for Senior members playing with Senior members.
- Juniors have equal right of access to courts 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (if not in use for coaching. Check the orange and green court useage poster in the lobby) up to 6pm in the evening.
- After 6pm Seniors have priority on all courts, except for one court which allows a Junior II player (under 18 on the 1/1/2017) priority up to 8.30pm or a Junior I player (under 12 on the 1/1/2017) up to 7pm.
- Junior I players (under 12 on the 1/1/2017) must be accompanied by an adult after 6pm.
CHILD PROTECTION
The Club adheres to Tennis Ireland Child Protection guidelines.
The KTTC Child Protection Policy Statement:
Kilkenny County & City Lawn Tennis Club is fully committed to safeguarding the well-being of its members. Every individual in the club should at all times show respect and understanding for their rights, safety and welfare, and conduct themselves in a way that reflects the principles of the club and the guidelines contained in the Code of Ethics and Good Practice for Children’s Sport.
Our Child Protection Officers are:
Brian Fennelly
Debbie Gaye
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