A good news for all the young tennis players who are still studying. Recently Tennis Jamaica has come up with a new way to aid all promising and potential young tennis players in the country. This initiative has been taken to balance the rigorous schedule of players along with their educational studies through online schooling.
Christine Gore, the honorary secretary of the association, said to the media that the organization have partnered for it with KBC Learning Centre.
Gore said further that the schedule of competitive players are very tight and they need about 30 weeks per year to polish their talent but the traditional schools do not allow this much to them.
The institution, named as the Cross Roads, was founded to offer assistance to the improvement programmes of schools and also to offer the students some supplemental educational services.
With this initiative of Cross Roads, the top local female tennis players are now completing their secondary level education online.
Gore added, “We are proud of it.” She also mentioned that many students are also being assisted by Karl Hale’s Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation. It is a Canada-based organisation.
She said, “He sponsors them and Tennis Jamaica manages them on his behalf.”
Let me brief little about Hale. He was a renowned tennis player and for ten years he has played Davis Cup for Jamaica. Hale is presently holding the post of tournament director in Toronto for the Rogers Cup Tennis Tournament.
Gore mentioned that for the tennis players of Jamaica online education programme is very necessary so that the young players remain in the island with their training continued along with the education. It is similar to the students in the United States and Europe. There, the students come to the camp with their laptops and between the matches they also do their lessons.
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