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PENZANCE TENNIS CLUB VOTED CLUB OF THE YEAR 2011
The "Oscars" of Cornish sport were presented at a prestigious awards evening held at The Atlantic Hotel in Newquay last Friday night. Competently compered by former athlete, turned radio presenter, Neil Caddy of Pirate FM the Cornwall Sports Partnership and its numerous sponsors honoured achievements in the awards categories of coaching, clubs and volunteering.
With five nominations and one win Penzance Tennis Club had a wonderful night. Competing against sports such as table tennis, cricket, running, hockey, rugby, surfing, swimming and football Penzance Tennis Club was voted Club of the Year 2011. The award was presented by Lee Hall from the Cornwall & Devon Media Group and proudly received by Club Chairman Trevor Newborn und Penzance Tennis Manager, Martin Coates.
Long-standing and popular club coach Keith Songhurst received framed certificates for his nominations for both Children's Coach of the Year and Lifetime Services to Sport. Tennis Manager Martin Coates who has only just seen out his first year with the club and has worked extremely hard to raise the club's profile and attract more members, was presented with a nomination for Participation Coach of the Year. Penzance Tennis Club also received nominations for Adult Club of the Year and Junior Club of Year.
During the most enjoyable evening guest speakers Mark Lewarne (international tri-athlete) and former England international rugby star Phil de Glanville gave an inspirational insight into the importance of sport. Whilst Lewarne gave the audience an account of his tough daily training regime de Glanville pointed out that apart from discipline, commitment and dedication the most valuable ingredient for any successful athlete is attitude.
There is certainly no doubting of Penzance Tennis Club's attitude towards its sport. Receiving so many nominations and winning the overall club category is a fine achievement and a big thank-you goes to all who voted for the club through The Cornishman newspaper recently.
Penzance Tennis Club has been accredited with LTA BEACON STATUS In recognition of fun and affordable tennis that we offer to The Local Community.
We are one of the first 75 Community Tennis Sites in the whole of the UK to have been awarded Beacon Status and only 1 other club in Cornwall have this accreditation which recognises some of the best Community Tennis facilities.
For the club this means that:
- We have access to Capital and Revenue Funding from the LTA
- Recognition and promotion on the LTA website
- (Accessed by 600,000 people each month)
- Support in generating PR and publicity
- A plaque to recognise the site as a LTA BEACON SITE
- Free Branded Windbreaks for our tennis courts
- Tennis Foundation Promotional day
We will soon be linking in with LTA Cornwall and doing a Press release for the club.
