I think Cinco de Mayo is a holiday for my family. We were raised on Mexican food and I think everyone in my immediate family will eat it for all three meals if we had a choice!! LOL Thank you everyone for your flexibility these past few weeks with the center, making last minute changes on us. Should any changes happen again, I will be posting on our Instagram NikkisTennisCrew page. Please follow to be informed of any last-minute changes. Especially if you participate in Saturday classes. Until further notice, Saturday morning adult class “coffee club” will be at 8am. The current junior schedule will continue as is until June 11th. I am happy to say my MRI came back and looks like I won’t need surgery at this time. My arm is still hurting and I can't hit any thing shoulder height and above. I need to limit my time on the court, but things are looking up as I am slowly getting more range of movement with it.
I am excited to say I got the summer program tentatively put together. I say tentative as I never know if the center will be changing anything. You can click on the flyer to get the link to it. Harvard-Westlake will be using a majority of the courts 10:00-4:00 each day but we are lucky to have one court guaranteed for the summer. This might changedepending on HW signups. With this in mind, we are going to have to be creative with getting everyone time on our court. I might have a private court or two to use so the schedule might change a bit. Please let me know if you know anyone who has a court. An outside bathroom is always a HUGE plus. As of now… My game plan is doing Junior Camps Monday-Thursday mornings 9:00-12:00. This will be for the beginning younger players 4-12 years old. I will be splitting the court into two to accommodate the slightly different ages. For the more advanced and older kids, we will be doing Monday-Thursday (maybe Friday) 3:00-5:00 (maybe 2:00-5:00). I will also have a variety of one-hour classes for all levels. The adult classes will vary in the mornings in relation to me getting a private court and the evening classes will continue with their current schedule. Private lessons will be scheduled around camp and classes. Please let me know what your summer plans are and how you want your privates to continue during the summer. And those who want to add privates, please let me know as well. There will be limited spaces in all classes, so I ask you to be organized and let me know ahead of time your and/or your child’s participation. I am not doing online sign ups yet but please send me an email to confirm your child's participation.
The adult team tennis is going well. We have over 50 players participating on four teams. It is a spreadsheet of organizing but so far so good. We have had a few individual victories and one team win for the men’s 3.0! There is free play practice for the Ladies 3.0 on Thursday 6:00-8:00pm. Friday evenings 7:00-9:00pm is open to all teams. George is organizing random men’s practices. You can contact him to play. Artin has a court at his condo in Glendale and is also organizing practices. We have drill classes to work on technique and strategy. Stay tune for our next team bonding event.
News from HEAD/Penn
HEAD/Penn is happy to announce they are extending their BOOM rackets to be designed for intermediate to beginner tennis players. They will be launched on May 14th. I am getting mine in the next few weeks. I will happily let you try it during your lesson. Please check out our local tennis shops to demo and purchase yours. Tennis Ace in Studio City, Serve It Up Tennis in Lake Balboa, The Racket Doctor in Los Angeles and Sweet Spot in Burbank. A special happy birthday shout out to our rep Carrie Cimino. I am very grateful for all she has done for us. She and HEAD/Penn have been such a huge support of Nikki's Tennis Crew this past years.
What’s New with The Crew
Getting ready for the summer, Coaches Becca and Issac are back to help. Both are top players at Oakwood High School. We are super lucky to have them back. We are happy to welcome Johnny Robertson. He goes by John now ,but I have known him since he was little and didn’t have facial hair so he will always be Johnny to me. He grew up playing at Toluca Lake Tennis Club with my best friend and club director Ben Brunkow. John is super passionate and full of energy. He played for Glendale college and has coached many years at Toluca Lake Tennis Club. He loves sports and is happy to help us out part time.
On another note, I have been having lots of fun with my side gig as a licensed minister for a non-denominational church. I have gotten to do the main talks at Center's For Spiritual Living Granada Hills these past two Sunday's. You can check out and follow my YouTube channel Spiritual Coach Nicole to hear my talks!
Thank you everyone for your continue support. If you are reading this at 10:00am on Thursday morning, my fight to Salt Lake City is taking off from Burbank Airport. I am excited to go celebrate my nieces college graduation with my brother. Adrien will be covering my classes while I am gone. Tracy Bodis is covering the Ladies 3.5, Joann Collins Ladies 3.0 and Artin Davodian Men’s 3.0. Thank you guys for stepping up!! Please contact them with any changes. Once again, thank you everyone for your support and flexibility. See you all on the courts!!
Keep your head up and keep reaching for that toss!
