Ratings Are Out

"If you wish to appeal, it takes about 5 seconds to do. There is a button to click on that says 'appeal'. It is done entirely mathematically, so crying and begging won't make a difference!" -- A level coordinator speaks

TENNIS E-News

Nov. 26, 2007 Vol. VI, No. 129
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC

Ratings Are Out

Appeal Procedure & '08 Team Pre-registration Form Are Attachments to This Issue

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- Yep. They are out. The appeals lines must be burning. Not to worry. You have until the day of your first 2008 USTA League match to get to your desired level … if you can get there. The appeal procedure is an attachment to this issue as taken from http://www.sctennis.com home page.

The ratings will run your entire '08 tennis life. What they won't do is have any effect on the current Senior Men's Interclub play. Not applicable, even though the season goes into 2008. Likewise, Super Senior players advancing to Southern Sectionals in March and Nationals in April will compete at the level they won the championships on Seabrook Island this month.

REPEATING ONCE MORE: The much-talked-about benchmark no-appeal rule does not go into effect until the May '08 South Carolina State Championships. If you are a benchmark, you can appeal your rating. (A benchmark being any player who advanced to state, section or national championships).

Which gets us back to the 2008 season and team pre-registrations that are going on now. Captains have about 10 days to submit a completed team pre-registration form -- a form that simply enters the team, its captain and co-captain, site, etc. If you don't have a pre-reg form, one is attached to this issue.

Meeting for Pros, Facility Managers: Local League Coordinator Jackie Reynecke will be calling a meeting of pros, managers or any individual responsible for working with and scheduling teams at their facilities for USTA Spring league. "It is our hope that this type of meeting will help facilities better understand how scheduling is done on our end and to work out any scheduling problems before Spring season begins," she said. All attendees at the TBA meeting should bring any pertinent information relating to number of teams at their facilities, blackout dates, time of home matches, etc.

In addition, two captains meetings will be scheduled for early January -- date TBA -- most likely one mid-afternoon followed by another one late afternoon after work.

How To Find Ratings -- Individual, Team, Everyone's -- Best to start with http://www.sctennis.com and, at left on the Home Page, select TennisLink, then select Leagues, then (on the right) scroll down to Find a Rating. You can key in an individual name or scroll to the Drilldown Search which will get you to a series of dropdown windows to select Championship Year (2007), Section (Southern), District (South Carolina) and Area (SC-Hilton Head Island). From there, select whether you want all players, only Women's 3.5s, etc. OR, you could call your captain and ask.

For team captains submitting pre-registration forms, here are our USTA League Level Coordinators for the 2008 Season (the form attached is a generic for any level):

Senior Level Senior

Men Coordinator Women Level Coordinator

2.5 Sue Cook Sue Cook

3.0 Don Grider Mary Ellen Arboe

3.5 Don Grider Ann Hunt

4.0 Don Grider Ann Hunt

4.5 Jackie Reynecke Jackie Reynecke

Adult Level Adult

Men Coordinator Women Level Coordinator

2.5 Sue Cook Sue Cook

3.0 Sue Cook Joanne Dugle

3.5 Sue Cook Julie Child

4.0 Julie Child Joanne Dugle

4.5 Jackie Reynecke Jackie Reynecke

5.0 Jackie Reynecke Jackie Reynecke

Contact Key -- Jackie Reynecke, Local League Coordinator jreynecke@hargray.com 785-1151, ext. 222

Mary Ellen Arboe tennisbeachbums@aol.com 785-2311

Julie Child jsc16paws@aol.com 342-7015

Sue Cook hhitennis@aol.com 785-2332

Joanne Dugle joannedugle@hargray.com 842-3544

Don Grider dmgrider@roadrunner.com 681-4551

Ann Hunt ahuntsc@aol.com 342-3327

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