How Can We Attract – and Retain – More Children to Tennis ft. Danielle McNamara
- Lisa Stone
- February 1, 2022
Junior Needs a New Bag! ft. Jack Oswald Welcome to Season 11, Episode 5, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network. This week, Lisa chats with Danielle McNamara, former Head Women’s Tennis Coach at Yale and current ITA Director of Coach Education, about what it’s going to take to attract and retain more children to our sport.
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Danielle McNamara was the women’s tennis head coach at Yale from 2006-14, and 2016-21. She was also the head coach at Texas from 2014-15. She guided Yale to four NCAA Tournament appearances, including the first in program history in 2008. McNamara coached 27 All-Ivy singles players, 12 All-Ivy doubles teams, two Ivy League Rookie of the Year players, and the first Yale women’s tennis Ivy League Player of the Year. She played college tennis at the University of Michigan, where she became the first player in program history to participate in all three national championships; ITA All-Americans, ITA National Indoors, and NCAA Championships. Danielle served as team captain, and was named Big Ten Sportswoman of the Year.
Jpalenque
Danielle is correct, the only way to grow the sport is to expand the base. But as Lisa correctly said, the USTA’s mission is the US open which is now with debt of $710M and losses of $220M so far.
If I can be of help reach out to me I would gladly help
Javier Palenque
February 1, 2022 at 3:34 pm