All Tennis Coaches, Club Professionals and Tennis Enthusiasts in the Charleston Area are invited to submit applications on behalf of junior girls for the 2008 CALTA Junior Recognition Program.

    In 2002, CALTA announced the establishment of the CALTA Junior Scholarship Program, designed to promote junior girls' tennis in our area, support junior girls in their tennis activities, help those with limited opportunities, and reward exceptional achievement.  To date CALTA has disbursed almost $36,000.

    In addition to announcing the program on our CALTA web site, every year letters are sent to all the appropriate schools in the Charleston area, as well as every private tennis club and every public tennis facility -- and an announcement is in the Post & Courier.  Any adult in the Charleston Area may submit a nomination. 

    Our recipients may use their grants for any tennis-related purpose -- which is why last year the name of the program was changed to the CALTA Junior Recognition Program.  We felt that this name better reflected our aims for the program.  We do much more than just help pay for a young girl's tennis education.  Through monetary grants we recognize ability and help train it, we recognize effort and encourage it, we recognize achievement and reward it, and we recognize need and try to fill the gaps.  To date we have done everything from the basics of putting shoes on feet and racquets in hands to funding lessons and clinics, sending girls to tennis camps, and helping out with tournament and travel expenses for the very serious. 

    If you know of a deserving young women who you feel would benefit from our program, please use the nomination form on this web site to nominate your candidate. An individual may sponsor multiple candidates.  A separate form is required for each applicant.

    The requirements are straightforward: The nominee must be a junior girl currently living in the Charleston Area.  The deadline for submittals for this year's program is April 30, 2008.

    For more information regarding CALTA's Junior Recognition Program, please call Pamela Doggett, Chairman of the program, at 557-1179, or send an inquiry to JuniorProgram@caltatennis.net .