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From Three Members to 560: Growing Tri-County Tennis
Clip: Season 6 Episode 27 | 1m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Kevin Miller explains how Tri-County Tennis grew from three members to 560 sign-ups.
After reviving the Tri-County Tennis Tournament in 2022, Kevin Miller and two partners formed a nonprofit with just three members. He explains how a website, newsletter and Facebook page helped build the organization to 560 people signed up in only four years and earn USTA recognition.
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Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds is a local public television program presented by WTVP
Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds
From Three Members to 560: Growing Tri-County Tennis
Clip: Season 6 Episode 27 | 1m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
After reviving the Tri-County Tennis Tournament in 2022, Kevin Miller and two partners formed a nonprofit with just three members. He explains how a website, newsletter and Facebook page helped build the organization to 560 people signed up in only four years and earn USTA recognition.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAll right, so- - [Kevin] We started with three members.
- Which is crazy, and that was just four years ago.
- Right.
- All right, so then, what happened the next year?
- Well, we got a website, tricountytennis.com.
(Christine chuckles) And with that website came a mailing list, an email capability.
And a Facebook page, we developed a Facebook page and had some people help us with that.
And started getting people who wanted our mailing list.
We went from, or not mailing list, but wanted our newsletter.
- [Christine] Okay.
- That we would put out occasionally.
And so we went from three members in 2022.
We currently have 560 signed up in just four years.
- That is just crazy.
- We are the tennis organization, if I could say so, the tennis organization in this area.
United States Tennis Association certifies certain groups as a CTA, a Community Tennis Association.
We are the only one in this area for the USTA.
- Wow.
Growing Tennis Beyond the Tournament
Clip: S6 Ep27 | 1m 16s | New doubles leagues and school partnerships take local tennis beyond tournament weekends. (1m 16s)
Why Young Tennis Players Get a Tournament of Their Own
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Clip: S6 Ep27 | 37s | Kevin Miller explains why players 18 and under get their own tournament weekend. (37s)
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