Stowe Tennis Club

Summer Tennis Program News & Updates

March 13, 2024 3:22 PM | Deleted user

While membership renewal is in progress, we have a lot to share with you about our summer tennis program. Read on to catch the latest news and updates.

Registration is open for the 2024 Core Tennis Program & Future Stars. The deadline for members to register for summer tennis is April 1st. Space is not guaranteed for members after April 1st as we will fill remaining spots with non-members and waitlisted families. Head over to our website for full details and event registration:

Summer Tennis Program Info & Registration

New name, same amazing program: You'll notice some changes to how we refer to the summer tennis offerings at the club. Formerly known as the Junior Program, the Core Tennis Program or CTP runs for 8 weeks of the summer for ages 8 to 14. Formerly known as Forehand Approach, the Advanced Tennis Program or ATP is integrated around the Core Tennis Program to offer motivated 12-14 year olds additional tennis instruction and opportunities to further develop game strategy, match play and strength/conditioning over the course of the 8-week Core Tennis Program. No changes were made to our beloved Future Stars Program for ages 4 to 7!

Announcing our newest hire, Sebastian Sweatman: We love to source staff directly from the membership. Also an active member, Seb will be our Core Tennis Program On-Court Facilitator this summer. We're excited about what he brings to the program and will be solidifying the rest of our coaching staff in the coming weeks. Here's an introduction to Sebastian in his own words:

"I started playing tennis at an early age (before 10 years of age). As a teenager, I got my first job at Windridge in Jeffersonville where in exchange for cleaning the bathrooms I got to participate in the tennis camp! Later I moved to Windridge at Teela-Wooket in Roxbury where I was a Counselor-in-Training for a year and then a Counselor. Tennis has been and still is how I stay in touch with my friends - and make new ones. In the winter I teach skiing with the Stowe Ski School (going on 16+ years) and I teach Middle School math at the Mt. Mansfield Academy. (For more info check out my LinkedIn Profile.)

I’m excited and look forward to being with the kids on court, and I plan on learning and playing a lot!"

Coaches Workshop: On Saturday March 9th, our Program Coordinator, Michele, and four of our tennis program coaches attended a workshop at the Edge in Essex. It was a great day of learning new drills, group games and strategies to enhance the summer tennis program experience for all. Thank you Julia, Max, Lucy and Mallory for attending the workshop!

Swim Lessons: We are gauging interest in member swim lessons this summer. Our swim instructor may be available for group lessons during the first two weeks in July. For group lessons, 4-5 swimmers are needed to fill the class. Interested families, please email us and specify your swimmer's age, current swim ability (beginner, intermediate, advanced) and your swimmer's availability this summer.

Junior Ladder: We are excited to announce the return of the junior ladder to the Stowe Tennis Club! For our U10, U12 and U14 junior members and Core Tennis Program participants, non-members and members alike, there will be plenty of healthy ladder competition this summer. Plans are in the works for the adult ladder as well. More details to be announced soon!

Reach out with any questions:

Elle, Club Manager

Michele, Program Coordinator

Introducing Michele Whitmore

February 27, 2024 1:53 PM | Deleted user

We are delighted to welcome our new Junior Program Coordinator, Michele Whitmore. Read below to get to know our latest hire as she introduces herself to our membership:

Hello to the Stowe Tennis Club Community:

I am absolutely delighted to join this community as the Junior Tennis Program Coordinator for Summer 2024. I have had the pleasure of playing on the STC courts a few times with my good friend Charlie and to now have the opportunity to spend more time here, coordinating the junior tennis program, supporting our program’s coaches, and promoting this amazing sport to our program participants, makes me smile and anxious for summer to arrive.

A little about me. For 29 years, I was a higher education administrator at the Johnson campus (Johnson State College, Northern Vermont University, and now Vermont State University). For 12 of those years, I was Head Coach of the women’s tennis team and also during that timeframe, coached four seasons of the men’s team. Coaching was not part of my plan. I never coached tennis or played competitive tennis growing up; I just loved to play recreationally and watched A LOT of tennis on tv (still do…); however, the team needed a coach and I agreed to help out the tennis program for one season…and that was all it took. Coaching was such a positive and impactful experience for me and that experience gave me an even greater love and appreciation for the sport. I played competitively through the USTA for several years in the 4.0 division, mainly playing the 1 or 2 spot in singles and the 2 or 3 spot in doubles.

With the help of the coaching staff, my goal is to create an engaging and fun tennis program for all of our participants with solid on-court instruction; opportunities to improve strategy and tactics; to appreciate the importance of good sportsmanship and to hopefully further increase the love of and respect for the game of tennis.

I am grateful to have this opportunity, to spend more time on the courts, supporting a sport I love, and getting to know the STC community.

Tennis high-five,

- Michele

President's Letter 2024

February 27, 2024 1:52 PM | Deleted user

Dear Members,

Membership Renewal is right around the corner. Catch up on the latest club news in our President's Letter.

Congratulations SHS Tennis Champs

June 23, 2023 8:09 AM | Deleted user

Congratulations to the Stowe High School Girl's and Boy's team members on their outstanding tennis season! The SHS girls took the Vermont State Division 1 Championship for the third time in a row. The boys advanced to a spot in the Finals, narrowly missing the title in a deciding match against Burlington with final team score 3 - 4, and coached by Club members Pete and Joanna Graves.

In the Vermont State Individual Tennis Tournament, dynamic duo Gabby Doehla and Kate Tilgner continued their reign as the state’s best girls doubles team, winning the Championship over Champlain Valley. Charlotte Stevens earned the Finalist spot in singles competition putting up a good fight against the eventual champion, Aroa SanJuan Mas from BFA-St. Albans, who defeated #1 seed, Julia Biedermann, in a quarter finals match tie-break.

Please join us in congratulating Stowe Tennis Club junior members and staff and the following Stowe Raiders players. Girls: Julia Biedermann, Charlotte Stevens, Gabby Doehla, Kate Tilgner and Lucy Andrus. Boys: Max Biedermann, Bo Graves, Parker and TJ Guffey, Leo Jercinovic, JP Marhefka and Ben Nissenbaum. Additional Stowe players rounding out the Raiders squad include: Jessie Brown, Harper Freund, Lula Paumgarten and Woody Reicheldt.

Well done, Go Raiders!