Rodney Street Tennis Association

Programs: Summer tennis and enrichment: rodney street's eight-week program includes tennis, life skills, education enrichment, and community activities. Each day, students receive a healthy breakfast and lunch, participate in tennis drills and games, and engage in life skills activities. During the afternoon, students receive academic support from our instructors and participate in an arts curriculum. In addition, our students hear from guest speakers and go on field trips to learn more about their community and themselves. During our summer program, we were able to analyze data from the online front row program to monitor student progress in math and language arts skills. Through our tennis components, we measure both tennis skills and fitness levels. Additionally, rodney street offered outreach programming to two summer camps over the 2017 summer program. 145 youth participated in sessions that provided a mix of an introduction to the sport of tennis and interwoven character development lessons.

on the rise (titled school sites program in 2016): the primary objectives of rodney street's on the rise program are to (1) develop positive life skills that will help students succeed in and outside of school; (2) foster students' appreciation of and commitment to tennis, health, and nutrition; and (3) partner with each school to expand the supportive community that encourages the growth and success of each student. Rodney street partnered with six schools in 2017 and reached over 1000 students.

all stars (titled community-based program in 2016): rodney street offers additional lessons to youth that express interest and display innate talent for the sport of tennis from their participation in on the rise programming. Students take part in intensive tennis and life skills clinics once each week.