Tennis Canada College Program
Since the program started in the summer of 2001, it has helped over 175 players from across Canada gain scholarships to major NCAA Division 1 and NCAA Division 2 universities. Players who have gone through the Tennis Canada College Program have gone on to play at schools such as Harvard, Princeton, University of Georgia, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Penn State, Ohio State, U of Oregon, U of Washington, and many other major institutions.
What Players and Parents get with the Tennis Canada College Program
- We will design and send your resumes
- We will send the player’s resumes to the appropriate schools that we feel meet your goals
- We will contact the university coaches directly so that you are well-seen and scouted
- All players will receive guidance throughout the recruiting process
- All player’s information will be posted on Tennis Canada’s recruiting site. NCAA coaches know this site. www.tenniscanadauniversity.com
- Players can receive practice SAT exams that will be graded
- Guidance through the NCAA Clearinghouse procedures
- Education on NCAA and NAIA rules and regulations
- We will help parents understand the various financing needs when their sons/daughters are entering university
- We will teach you how to succeed in university once the scholarship is signed
- If you need to transfer schools, we will guide you throughout that process and help you find a new university program
- Players will receive aid in planning their summer tournament schedules each year, e.g., Futures, Prize Money events, ITA Collegiate Summer Circuits, European tournaments, and others
All players’ results will be tracked throughout their university careers to be considered for wildcards in professional ranking events and future World University Games events.
UTR and Tennis Recruiting
Tennis Canada recommends two essential tools for prospective U.S. College student-athletes to use to help the athlete find the right school and help college coaches recruit the Canadian athlete.
The two tools are used globally; the first is called Universal Tennis Rating (UTR), and the second is tennisrecruiting.net.
Please read below and get started; these tools will set you up for success!
How to Find a Team Using the Universal Tennis Rating (UTR)
The Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) is becoming the principal resource that U.S.-based college tennis coaches use to prospect student-athletes from around the globe and recruit them to their roster.
This rating system was created as a tool for coaches to assess tennis athletes and for athletes to seek out recruiting teams.
This rating system allows coaches to assess the level of athletes from around the world, and it is rapidly becoming the standard that a coach will use to decide whether they will recruit a player who will be at the same competitive level as their team.
UTR benefits college coaches by pulling data from other rating tools, including ATP, WTA, ITA (collegiate tennis), ITF, and the USTA. UTR then provides a universal scale determining the playing level of a particular athlete, and this rating system has now become the common denominator whereby players can compare themselves to other tennis athletes and as well the top tennis players in the world, such as Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams.
Tennis athletes can also use this system to locate appropriate college-level programs they would like to apply.
Click the links below to learn more about the UTR system and why Canadian tennis players should get a UTR.
