{"id":9739,"date":"2020-12-21T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T04:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2020-12-21T15:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T04:35:42","slug":"tennis-thanks-team-tennis-tournaments-coordinator-matt-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2020\/12\/21\/tennis-thanks-team-tennis-tournaments-coordinator-matt-scott","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Tasmania thanks and farewells Matthew Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As 2020 comes to a close, Tennis Tasmania will be saying goodbye to our Team Tennis and Tournaments Coordinator Matthew Scott<\/strong>, who is moving into a Competitions Manager role with AFL Tasmania in the New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt joined the team in May of 2018, moving to Hobart after previously working for Queensland Touch Football as a Competition and Venue Coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The backbone of the tournament space in the state, Matt has built strong relationships and established a number of thriving junior and adult leagues in his time with Tennis, becoming a valued member of the team and tennis community along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt took\nthe time to reflect on his time with Tennis in the island state and has shared\nhis thoughts with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his role as Team Tennis and Tournaments\nCoordinator:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my\ncore focuses has been establishing the junior base of participation and\nstrengthening the competition pathway, with the aim of building the profile of\nthe sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A big goal\nfor me has been to provide playing opportunities for everyone and anyone, and\nmaking sure that all players have a good experience when they take to the\ncourts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the juniors, I\u2019ve tried to help them become better versions of themselves, not just on the court but off-court as well, through instilling team values and encouraging the developing of friendships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel my\nknowledge and skillset has been broadened immensely through conversations and\nmeetings with our team, stakeholders, and I developed a lot more confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have a close connection with our coaches across the state, and our clubs are always heavily involved with our programs that we deliver at their venues; they\u2019re very receptive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On court with team Tennis participants at Glenorchy City Tennis Club in August 2020.
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International Events experience<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m\nfortunate enough to have been able to work at all three international events\nheld in Tassie for the past two summers in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hobart International<\/a><\/strong> is such a high profile event that attracts an amazing calibre of players, and I\u2019ve been lucky enough to have worked in Court and Ground Services and as the Ballkid Lead across the two years I\u2019ve been with Tennis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be there\ncontributing to such a great team, it\u2019s quite special to be involved in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve also worked in Player Services at the Launceston International<\/a><\/strong>, but out of the three events it\u2019s the Burnie International<\/strong> which is closest to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was Assistant Tournament Director in 2019, and then Tournament Director in 2020. Taking the responsibility of managing different departments and being that conduit for our players, to their entourage and to the officials is a big role, and one I\u2019m most proud of from my time here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruce Cup <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another highlight of my time in Tennis was taking our 12\/u Bruce Cup team away to WA in October 2019 as Team Manager alongside our Talent Operations Manager Trent Constance and our Schools Development Coordinator Alyssa Hibberd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a\nmemorable experience just seeing the kids in a team environment and supporting\neach other, and learning strong values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nfriendships they created with players from other states and being able to\nconnect with parents and Tennis staff from other states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leagues<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been\ngrateful to have some freedom in my role to try some things that have grown and\nwill be a part of the future in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve started up our Tassie Junior League<\/a>, which has become our junior yellow ball competition which runs each school term in the North and South, with numbers growing every season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020 we launched the Southern Tennis League<\/a>, our adult competition in the south, with more than 80 players from seven clubs competing across two divisions in each of the seasons to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been a part of the group who started up our Team Tennis program statewide for primary school-aged junior players, which has received strong support from schools and parents this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matt with the Tassie Junior League South finalists in December.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Looking ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve really\nenjoyed my time in Tennis, and I feel the sport in the state is in a really\ngood place, with a lot of passionate people behind the scenes doing good things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a\nstrong junior base of participation, and there\u2019s a pathway that is being refined\nand developed for these players to continue on in the sport, which will lead to\nmore people playing more often, and higher participation numbers in our tournaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll still be around the sport and touch base here and there; I have my eyes on competing in the Cygnet Open in February, which is a great event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d like to thank everyone from the team and everyone I\u2019ve liaised with over the past few years, from the wider tournaments and competitions team and network interstate to our Tennis Tasmania team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The backbone of the tournament space in the state, Matt will join AFL Tasmania in 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6260,"featured_media":9745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,226,248,227],"tags":[75,73],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-stl","category-tassie-junior-league","category-team-tennis","tag-matthew-scott","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}