Mountain Vista Boys Tennis
7/22 Back-to-School Email
Hi MVHS Tennis Parents,
We are excited for the 2024 MVHS Boys' Tennis Season!
Below are a few reminders...
- Registration is now open (July 22nd) and closes on August 4th.
- Chrome browser works best
- A current physical needs to be on file and cannot expire during the season
- Participation fee must be paid
- All three of these things (registration, physical, and participation fee) need to be completed to be eligible for the first day of practice.
- The team store will open shortly [access code: TBD]. Note, all apparel is optional on this website, but 12% comes back to the tennis program. Uniforms will be distributed after the first week or two of practice.
- Pre-Season/End of Summer Camp is August 5-9th from 3-5pm. Attached is the form to fill out and bring to summer tennis or first day of the camp.
- Season/Tryouts start Monday, August 12th 3-5pm on the MVHS courts. Please bring a racquet, shoes, water, and sunscreen.
- Schedules will be posted on the MVHS athletic website. In the meantime, I have also created a Google Spreadsheet calendar. Varsity, please note, regionals and state are later this year (front and backend of Fall Break, see CHSAA schedule for more info).
- Parent meeting is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, August 13th in the auditorium. We will confirm once we have the auditorium booked.
- Game Set Match Team Night is scheduled for Thursday, August 15th. Players, Vista Families, and Vista Tennis Parents get a discount on racquets, strings, shoes, apparel, etc. I have attached the flyer from the spring for reference.
Additional Items
- SENIORS:
- For senior banner pictures, I have scheduled the boys to go over to Paul Shepardson's studio (10174 Charissglen Lane) at 1pm on Monday, August 5th before the tennis camp at Vista.
- Banners will be 2'x3' for a total cost of $65 each.
- Seniors will need to bring checks payable to Colorado Sports Photography on August 5th to Paul's studio.
- Banners will be put up on the MVHS courts for the season and will be distributed to seniors at the banquet.
- King Soopers:
- If you shop at King Soopers, please take 5 minutes to support MVHS Boys Tennis. Link your shopping card by visiting one of these sites below and a portion of your purchases will help our students at no extra cost to you. Feel free to change the club, activity, or sport based on the season. Login and search for "Mountain Vista" and a variety of programs will appear. Choose our program and then click "Enroll."
- Booster Club Dues (to be discussed at parent meeting):
- There will be no major fundraiser this year. Instead, we are using a fee structure similar to the other MVHS sports. Team participation fees cover uniforms, tennis balls, equipment, matches, and coaches.
- Please navigate to this link (https://vistagoldeneagles.sportngin.com/register/form/419107012) to pay team participation fees per player: $350 Varsity | $150 Junior Varsity. Note, there is a 3% fee charged for credit card orders. To avoid this fee, please have your student athlete bring in a check, payable to: MVBC (Mountain Vista Booster Club), to practice by Wednesday, August 14th, so we can pass out uniforms.
- If you are unable to pay the fee please email Coach Carl and Coach Kendra and we will apply for a scholarship for your son through the booster club. We just need documentation in order to do that.
- Tryouts:
- Tryouts will consist of singles challenge matches (2 out of 3 sets) for Varsity. Varsity consists of three singles lines and four doubles lines (total of 11 boys). We are planning to start JV doubles challenge matches on Wednesday, which will be a pro set (8 games). The ladder has been set based on last year's positions and will continue to be updated as challenge matches finish. Please let me know if you would like to see the ladder and I'd be happy to walk you through it. Tentative schedule below.
- Monday - everyone practices from 3-5pm
- Tuesday - everyone practices from 3-5pm
- Wednesday - Varsity 3-5pm, JV 3-4:30pm (possible JV matches starting at 4:30pm)
- Thursday - Varsity 3-5pm, JV 3-4:30pm (possible JV matches starting at 4:30pm)
- Friday - Varsity 3-5pm, JV 3-4:30pm (possible JV matches starting at 4:30pm)
Please forward this along to any incoming freshmen or new members of the Vista tennis community as this email is going out to all tennis athletes from last fall.
Let us know if you have any questions,
Coach Carl, Coach Dave, Coach Tom, Coach Evan, Coach Chris, and Coach Kendra
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6/23 Summer Email
Hi MVHS Tennis Parents,
Happy Summer! I hope everyone is having a great break.
We are excited for the 2024 MVHS Boys' Tennis Season! We are still a month out from registration, but wanted to get the schedule and dates out for any pre-planners
Below are a few reminders...
- Registration will open on July 22nd and close on August 4th.
- Chrome browser works best
- A current physical needs to be on file and cannot expire during the season
- Participation fee must be paid
- All three of these things (registration, physical, and participation fee) need to be completed to be eligible for the first day of practice.
- The team store will open towards the end of the summer (most likely July) [access code: TBD]. Note, all apparel is optional on this website, but 12% comes back to the tennis program. Uniforms will be distributed after the first week or two of practice.
- Pre-Season/End of Summer Camp is August 5-9th from 3-5pm. Attached is the form to fill out and bring to summer tennis or first day of the camp.
- Season starts Monday, August 12th 3-5pm on the MVHS courts.
- Schedules will be posted on the MVHS athletic website. In the meantime, I have also created a Google Spreadsheet calendar. Varsity, please note, regionals and state are later this year (front and backend of Fall Break, see CHSAA schedule for more info).
- Parent meeting is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, August 13th in the auditorium. We will confirm once we have the auditorium booked.
- Game Set Match Team Night is scheduled for Thursday, August 15th. Players, Vista Families, and Vista Tennis Parents get a discount on racquets, strings, shoes, apparel, etc. I have attached the flyer from the spring for reference.
Let us know if you have any questions,
Coach Carl, Coach Dave, Coach Tom, Coach Chris, Coach Evan and Coach Kendra
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Hi MVHS Tennis Parents,
Sign up for Summer Tennis!
To sign up: print and fill out the Summer Registration Form, then turn the form and payment into the Athletic Window at MVHS.
Please register by May 1st.
Let us know if you have any questions,Coach Flanigan, Coach Carl, and Coach Kendra
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Mountain Vista Tennis Community,
I wanted to write a letter to inform you all that I am stepping down as the Head Boys and Girls Tennis Coach at Mountain Vista High School. It has truly been my pleasure to coach at Mountain Vista for the past nineteen years. It does seem like only yesterday that I was leaving a friend’s wedding and Dave Mumper called me to let me know that I was the new Head Boys Tennis Coach at Mountain Vista High School. I was twenty-four years old and I could not wait to embark on building a program at a brand new school in Highlands Ranch. I was so excited and while I made some mistakes along the way it was one of my greatest honors to serve this community in this role.
I look back at the past nineteen years with only fondness and I hope that everyone that played for me knew I cared about them as people and not just as tennis players. I always wanted to teach life lessons and I felt that the game of tennis did that very well because it taught me so much about life as I grew up playing it. I hope those who played for me and read this think of me and remember a life lesson I taught them and not a forehand or a serve. But I did teach those as well. I always wanted to win but I did feel we learned more from failure than from success and always tried to teach that when we failed.
I also made some of my greatest friends coaching at Mountain Vista. The coaches at our school are truly some of the best in the entire state. Listening to them over the years and learning from all of them has prepared me for my next chapter as the Athletic Director at Mountain Vista. I want to first thank my wife Andreya for supporting me in my coaching career. I also want to thank all of the assistant coaches that have been a part of the program for the last nineteen years. Thank you, Jill Cleverdon, Dan Gonzalez, Kendra Lavallee, Paul Angelico, Susan Cash, Lew Kosich, Stuart Foster, Mike Willsea, Evan Kruck, Jenn Ortmann, Michael Shin and others for coaching with me on the tennis court. Most of all thank you to Dave and Cole Jensen, without you two I know I could not have done this for as long as I have. You two are literally and figuratively the backbone of this program. Thank you for always encouraging me and having my back when things got tough.
Lastly, I need to thank Dave Mumper, Pat McCabe, and Shawn Terry who employed me as a coach. Thank you to Mike Weaver and Rob Ceglie for allowing me to continue to coach tennis even after they hired me as the Athletic Director because they knew I needed to still have a connection with students.
It is time for me to embark on the next chapter of life which will be continuing to support all of our athletic programs as the Athletic Director at Mountain Vista but it will also give me the time for me to be a better parent to my kids. I was blessed to have so many great parents at Mountain Vista over the years and I saw what they poured into their kids. I want to do a better job of that in the next ten years for my kids. It all goes too fast and I need to be there for those moments with them like my parents were for me and so many of you have been for your kids that played for me.
Thank you to everyone and I look forward to supporting the tennis team and hiring coaches that will take this program to even greater heights in the future.
Sincerely,
Jim Flanigan
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