Survived Week 1

All is quite at Sweet Briar College as the first week of kids have gone home. It was a great week full of new experiences. Even though I have been teaching tennis for four years now, I found that working for Van Der Meer tennis is completely different. Pat and Dennis (founders) really keep their employees on their toes and expect the best.

I think that one of the neatest things that happened this week was with on the students that I had been closely working with, Peter. He was one of the weakest players that we had this week, but one with the best attitude. On Thursday all the kids were put into a group to play matches, but I had the opportunity to work with Peter one on one.

One thing that he really wanted to work on was his serve. It was one aspect that he had really been struggling with. We broke down the parts of the serve for around an hour. By the end of the hour he had vastly improved. He was so happy and smiled ever time that he made a serve in. The funny part of the story was that I tried to ask him if he wanted to work on other parts of his game, but he just wanted to keep serving. He was so grateful! It really made me realize why I love not just tennis, but teaching others to love it too!

Kat