LTA - Schools offering tennis and education programmes

Schools Offering Tennis and Education Programmes

Here is a selection of schools that offer tennis and education programmes, and their contact details.

Cheam High School is a mixed 11-19 Comprehensive School with 1,750 pupils on roll.
In September 1993 Cheam formed a partnership with The Sutton Tennis Academy to create the Cheam High School Tennis Scholarship Scheme, enabling players to combine educational study and tennis.

Millfield and Millfield Preparatory School offer a number of awards, with scholarships worth up to 50% of fees available.
Many players choose to continue high level tennis alongside a degree course at Bath University as it offers the facilities to combine the two.
Millfield tennis, in conjunction with college placement agencies, has wide-ranging contacts with coaches and players at American universities. The School has a successful record in assisting player placements at high profile colleges and universities.

Over the last twenty years, Reed's has built up and maintained an outstanding reputation as a tennis school
With the arrival of the indoor centre, Reed's now offers a first class on-site performance programme to players of exceptional ability or potential.

Repton’s Tennis is nationally renowned - members of the Top Squad train on a daily basis throughout the year, have international rankings and travel on the ITF and ETA circuits.
The School’s Tennis facilities include indoor and outdoor, all-weather courts, fitness suite, video room, and a sports retail outlet with re-string service, as well as dedicated professional coaches.
Scholarships and Bursaries are available for talented performers who will make a significant contribution to sport at Repton, at both 13+ and 16+.
Tailored academic programmes are developed for the very best, international standard players.

Queenswood has an outstanding reputation for tennis.
Superb facilities and a dynamic coaching team place them at the forefront of schools offering tennis.
With a total of 27 courts - two indoor, 13 artificial grass and 12 American 'fast-dry' green clay courts - Queenswood is one of the largest centres of its kind in the country

Culford is a co-educational day and boarding school offering education from aged 3 all the way through to 18 years of age.
A well developed club and community programme on site and a strong link with the local school sport programme.
A new 4 court fabric frame indoor centre is now in place to offer all year round tennis.
The school has a strong tennis scholarship package, entitling scholarship players up to 25% off their education as well as 25% off their tennis fees.
A typical tennis programme for the scholars involves around 3 hours of individuals per week as well as 3/4 squads and 2 hours of fitness. Players also have access to an onsite masseur and fitness trainer.
Within the school's first three years the school has one player ranked inside the top 60 in Europe at 14U level, two players ranked inside the top 20 nationally, as well as 3 other players ranked inside the top 60 nationally. Additionally, Culford has won the IAPS National 14U doubles event two years in a row as well as winning the 14U IAPS singles event in 2009, the 15U girls' ISTA title and 3 National IAPS titles (14U girls singles and doubles and 14U boys' singles)

Gosling Sports Park, North Herts College and the LTA have teamed up to offer a Btec course designed to develop coaching skills and enhance tennis skills through an internationally recognised qualification.
The course is is vocational. It consists of a series of live projects which involve working with world class experts and committed players. Each student will have an individual performance plan designed by our expert team to give every student the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
Projects Include - Training and Fitness for Sport, Fitness Testing for Sport and Exercise, Sports Nutrition, Psychology for Sports Performance and Technical and Tactical Skills in Sport.
The course is fully funded except for registration fee and is open to anyone aged between 16-18 with a rating of 9.2 and above.
For course details and further information contact Christine Hildreth (christinehildreth@goslingsports.co.uk)