Category: Program Updates

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INDY Program Success

This year ICTP has created a new program for Washington Township third graders. This program allows the students to learn new skills such as tennis and to continue working on their life skills. Our first two classes have been lots of fun and all of the students cannot wait for the next class!

Special thanks to our generous donors and the USTA Foundation for their continued support in making this program a success!

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First Green Dot Round Robin

Yesterday marked the first of the green dot round robin competitions benefiting Riley Children’s Foundation.
The Green Dot Round Robin was a success with 8 players participating!

Congratulations to the following:
Winner: Aiden Wang (Won 18 games!)
Finalists: Sophia Crabtree and Eleanor Noga (Won 16 games each!)
Sportsmanship Award: Aiden Wang

To learn more or get involved in the action yourself, please click HERE.
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Riley Orange Ball Round Robin

Thrilled to have completed another successful Orange Ball Round Robin benefiting Riley Children’s Foundation yesterday.

Congratulations to the following:
Winner: Haruki Chiyo
Sportsmanship Award: Skylar O’Neal

To learn more or get involved in the action yourself, please click HERE.
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First Riley Round Robin Success!

Yesterday marked the first of the round robin competitions benefiting Riley Children’s Foundation.

The Orange Ball Round Robin was a success with 8 players participating, many in their first competition experience ever!

Congratulations to the following:
Winner: Lochan Pagadala (Won 16 games!)
Finalist: Mila Davidson (Won 15 games!)
Sportsmanship Award: Elaine Hughes (Excellent audible calling of score and quick retrieving of balls!)

To learn more or get involved in the action yourself, please click HERE.
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New INDY Program Announcement

It’s not a secret that money continues to be the biggest driver, and often barrier, or early participation in sports. We’re choosing to remove that barrier, creating opportunity for those who need it most.

The Indianapolis Tennis and Education Foundation will pilot the INDY (Inspiring, Nurturing, Developing Youth) Program in the summer of 2021. This new program has recently been designated a new chapter of the National Junior Tennis League (NJTL).

Partnering with surrounding elementary schools, fifty at-risk second grade students will be selected for this free ten week program.

A combination of tennis instruction and education will focus on overall health, wellness, and social and emotional skills. Racquets and equipment, healthy snacks, and a specially trained staff for all fifty children are all provided at no cost to the players’ families.

Each two-hour clinic will incorporate tennis skills with activities that instill the critical life skills of problem solving, cooperation, and communication.

Because, in the end, we know it’s not just about the game. It’s determination, taking a risk, and sportsmanship. It’s about building skills to help them reach their full potential, both on and off the court.

All children, regardless of their financial stability, deserve the chance to build these skills.

YOU can be the one to help change not just the players’ summers, but their lives.

To join the cause, empower children, and ensure the necessary resources are available at no cost to their families, please click below.

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Calling All Amazon Shoppers!

Calling all Amazon shoppers! Did you know that Amazon will donate a portion of all purchases made through AmazonSmile to the nonprofit of your choice? You can make a difference by simply turning on AmazonSmile and liking to our organization – NO fees, NO extra cost! Once connected, just keep shopping like usual. You buy, they donate! For easiest use, don’t forget to link your app to AmazonSmile.

Here’s how to sign up for AmazonSmile

1. Click HERE to visit AmazonSmile.

2. Sign in with your Amazon.com credentials

3. Search Indianapolis Junior Tennis Development Fund

4. Select your charity

4. Start shopping!

5. Add a bookmark for smile.amazon.com to make it even easier to return and start your shopping at AmazonSmile

To turn on AmazonSmile in the Amazon Shopping app:

1. Make sure you’re signed up for AmazonSmile (click HERE).

2. Download or update to the latest version of the Amazon Shopping app for iOS or Android

3. Open the app and find “Settings” in the main menu (☰)

4. Tap on “AmazonSmile” and follow the on-screen instructions to turn on AmazonSmile in the app.

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We’ve Changed Our Name!

We believe that tennis is much more than just a sport. That’s why for over 50 years the Indianapolis Junior Tennis Development Fund, Inc., or as we are better known for our charitable actions, the Indianapolis Community Tennis Program, has used tennis as a vehicle for education.

The game of tennis enables players to learn life skills and core values like determination, discipline, sportsmanship, and integrity. Skills that help not just on the court, but throughout life.

These educational components have quietly been at the forefront of our programming. Each clinic, tournament, program event and educational opportunity further instills these life skills and values, while focusing on the development of our participants not just as players, but as the people they are becoming.

By changing our foundation’s name to the Indianapolis Tennis and Education Foundation, Inc., we’ve loudly embraced who we’ve always been: a program that develops junior tennis and players, focusing on all that it encompasses, throughout the entire Indianapolis community. 

To learn more about the history of our foundation, please click here.

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ICTP Gift Certificates

Need a last minute gift? Shipping delays have you scrambling? Simply just want to share the game you love? We’ve got you covered!

ICTP gift certificates are now available in any denomination and will be emailed directly to the recipient.

Gifting the game is as easy as clicking HERE!