Girls Tennis

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2025 GIRLS TENNIS

Hello Everyone!Welcome to the 2025 Girls Tennis Season! We currently offer 2 levels of participation, Varsity and Junior Varsity for girls in grades 9-12 with the option to add another level, if numbers send us in that direction.

My name is Kevin Jones. I am the Head Girls Tennis Coach. This is my 3rd season in this position. We are a person first program. Tennis is a lifetime sport. We meet all players where they are at and help them to move forward as a person and as a player. Please let me know if you have any questions about the program or the upcoming season. jones.kevin@slpschools.org. Please email me if you would like to be added to email communications that are sent throughout the Summer.

Important Upcoming Dates

Monday, August 11th - Friday, August 15th
Practice. 8:30am - 11:00am.

Wednesday, August 13th -
Nutrition with Coach Gust during practice from 10:15am-11:00am.

Thursday, August 14th -
Parent/Family virtual meeting. 5:30pm - 6:15pm.

Monday, August 18th - Friday, August 22nd.
Practice. 8:30am - 11:00am

**Thursday, August 21st.
Varsity Home vs Bloomington Kennedy. JV @ Bloomington Kennedy. 10:00 am start.

Saturday, August 23rd. 
Scrimmage @ Richfield. Time TBD. This has not been confirmed yet.

Monday, August 25th - August 29th. Workshop week.
Practice will transition to after school time 3:30 - 5:00.

**Tuesday, August 26th.
Varsity @ Jefferson. JV Home vs Jefferson. 4:15 start.

**Wednesday, August 27th.
Varsity Home vs Mlps. Roosevelt. JV @ Mlps. Roosevelt. 4:15 start.

Coaching Staff

Kevin Jones

Varsity Coach

Welcome to the 2025 St. Louis Park Tennis Season! My name is Kevin R. Jones. I am the Varsity Girls Tennis Coach. I could not be more proud to represent the SLP team, Players, Families, Athletic Department, Schools and Community. I've been working in St. Louis Park for 25+ years. I met my wife of 23 years in St. Louis Park. Some of the players may have had her as a teacher, Carrie Runke-Jones. I have a son Lucas, who will be in 12th grade and a daughter Veronica, who will be in 11th grade. Both attend St. Louis Park High School. I recently spent 2 years teaching abroad with my family in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from 2019-2021. I have 20+ years of coaching many sports at all levels in St. Louis Park and abroad. 10 years Assistant Varsity Football, 5 years Head Coach Girls Varsity Fastpitch, 3 years JV and Co Head Coach Boys Golf, 1 year Head Girls Golf, 1 year Freshman Baseball, 3 years Freshman B Basketball, 1 year JV Girls Badminton (Abu Dhabi), 1 year JV Boys Basketball (Abu Dhabi), 1 year 5th and 6th grade Boys Soccer (Abu Dhabi).

It has been fun meeting 20+ players over the 5 weeks of Summer Camps. It is important for me to get to know all of the players that represent the Tennis program. I will do my best to genuinely make connections with all players and families. A big part of my philosophy is to meet players where they are at as a person and at their ability level. I believe in having fun with the understanding that working hard for the team can be fun!

Rules, Expectation's, and Lettering are in the works. I would say that as a player, the expectation is that you will do all you can to be there for your team. The beauty of participating in extracurricular activities is that you can leave everything going on at the door and focus on being a good teammate. Whatever is going on outside of tennis will be there after tennis.

Captains will be selected at the end season by the coaches. Players who are interested in being captain for the following season will be asked to fill out a brief questionnaire. Coaches will make the final decision based on leadership, commitment, integrity and attitude on and off the tennis court.

With so many ways to communicate at this time, I will be settling on for sure using gopark.org, email, and one other form of communication. I would expect that if there is a question or concern that the player come to the coach first and then we can go from there.

I am looking forward to the season!

Thank you for your support.

Kevin R. Jones
jones.kevin@slpschools.org

Greg Holmbeck

Abby Schrader

Team Captains

Important Dates

Practice Info

2024 SLP Girls Tennis

Registration, Tryouts, and Practice InformationCaptains 2024 Season- Alexandra (Ale) Coronado and Sarah Tirado

Tennis Registration:No participation is allowed until registration and a current physical is on file with the Athletic Office.

The link below can be used for registration. Tennis is $220. Please review the information below regarding reduced pricing. If you have questions regarding this please contact Rob Griffin griffin.robert@slpschools.org

REGISTRATION
The change is that fees are different now for each sport. There is still the opportunity for reduced pricing. Even though lunch is free for everyone we still need to push families to apply for "Educational Benefits". Reduced benefits will be 50% of the total registration fee and free benefits will remain at $25.

During July there is a good chance that the families will not see this reflected because the rollover from PowerSchool to Affinety doesn't happen until later in July. Families just need to send an email to griffin.robert@slpschools.org with their letter from the nutrition office and he will manually adjust the pricing for them.

Sports Physical must be up to date to register and participate starting August 12th. Physicals can be scanned or emailed to me as well or brought in. If they want to Fax it they can 952-928-6172 but I don't like to encourage faxing as the physical gets put in a pile of other things that need to be faxed out by the provider and it takes the longest for me to receive them. CVS minute clinic is probably the fastest way to get one.

PracticeAll registered players will be able to participate on the St. Louis Park Girls Tennis Team. Coaches will determine the level of play, Varsity, JV, B (depending on numbers) as we move through the season.

The first 2 weeks of Practice, Monday, August 12 - Friday, August 16 and Monday, August 19 - Friday, August 23 will be from 8:30 AM - 11:00 am. Monday, August 26th practices will move to after school times. 3:30 to 5:00.

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