ICTA Tryouts - April !!
Hello tennis enthusiasts. As you (should) all know by now via official club communications over the past week or so -- Old Mill will once again have Mixed B and Mixed C teams in 2026. I will stay on as a Captain of our Mixed B this year and I am happy to share with you all that Dhawal will be co-captaining the team with me this year. Mary (who already captains her Ladies A team at York Weston) will serve as an "alternate" captain and will step in from time to time when Dhawal and/or I need to be away or if we are unable to fulfill our captain's role on a given week.
Also - we have a new Head Pro at the club (Mo) and Mo has expressed a desire and an intention to be quite involved this year with our teams -- including helping to run tryouts, drafting our team rosters, organizing and running some team practices (if allowed), and perhaps even designing a clinic around competitive doubles development. I'm very excited about Mo's energy and about the genuine interest he has already shown in our teams' development and success. Those of you who came to the Crooked Cue on Wednesday probably feel the same.
Last season, our B team roster carried many players and our C team roster, lacked necessary depth (particularly male depth). This year we aim to rectify that by achieving a better balance across both teams. To that end - we are looking at holding open tryouts this spring (March/April) during which Mo (along with some input from last year's B and C captains) will ascertain who he feels should play on B and who he feels should play on C. This will take the initial roster selection burden away from captains.
The Club will send out detailed information regarding tryouts once dates are decided and courts are secured so that all members receive an invitation to tryout. Players wishing to play on either of the teams will need to attend a tryout (there will be multiple tryout time slots) regardless of whether or not you played last year. Mo will be looking at all players objectively and without bias.
In order to gauge how many courts to book and across how many dates , I would like to start with a poll to see how many of us are interested in competing this summer. So please keep your eye out for a poll in the next 24 hours and please vote so that we can start to get an idea of the level of interest.
Thanks everyone. More information to follow in the coming weeks.
Warm regards,
Marc Bondy
