Tyler Junior College

	You know the game of tennis.
	At Tyler Junior College we know business.
	Combine the two, tennis and business, and you can have a career as a tennis professional.

For more than 20 years our tennis teaching program has attracted students from more than 55 states and 20 countries.

Endorsed by the USPTA the Tennis Tech program at TIC is dedicated to showing our students that being a professional in the tennis world involves more than playing tennis.

Over 90 percent of the graduates in TJC’s program find full-time tennis employment, in many cases, before they graduate.

When you join the program, you’ll learn the ins and outs of the tennis business. We’ll serve up the courses you need to run a successful business—accounting, computers, foreign languages and speech. Then we’ll bring you to the net and teach you how to teach tennis and polish your own playing skills.

Our "Train the Trainer" program (Lab. 15 hours a week) teaches students how to recognize the individual skills and talents each person has and how to help a player reach the peak of his or her performance.

You will work with individuals, groups of adults and groups of children learning how to teach tennis. You will learn how to analyze strengths and weaknesses of individual players and how to develop each player’s skills.

And, since Tyler Junior College's men’s and women’s teams are nationally-ranked, members of the Tennis Tech program have the opportunity to work with these players to develop their skills in dealing with the advanced tennis players.

While you are in the Tennis Tech program, you will be exposed to some of the top tennis teaching professionals through programs from such groups as:

Program Director Kimm Ketelsen is a certified teaching member of the United States Professional Tennis Association. Kimm has twenty-five years experience as a director of tennis. Nationally ranked in top 10 in USA. Assistant coach for University of Texas Austin, womens tennis team; National champions 1995. Two Time NAIA All-American.

"There will be many challenges facing tennis professionals in the coming years. The need for qualified people who can teach lessons, manage professional shops and manage club facilities will always be in demand,".

"Our philosophy at Tyler Junior College is that everyone has a certain level of tennis ability. While there are basics which every tennis player needs, there is much more individuality. Our goal is to teach our students how to recognize those individual strengths and weaknesses and how to capitalize on them.

"The focus on the individual is what makes our program so successful."

  It’s not often you can turn your love of a sport into a full-time career.

At Tyler Junior College you get that chance.

For information on the Recreation Leadership/Tennis Tech Program at Tyler Junior College contact:

Kimm Ketelsen, Program Director