Webinar Watch October 2025

Check each course for Educational Credits.

• Fireside Chat with Mats Wilander

• Overcoming my fiercest opponent… myself with Andy Zodin & Karl Jones

• Insights to coaching ladies’ teams with Bunny Bruning & Cathy Nicoloff & Simon Paek & Trish Faulkner

• Panel Session: Managing up: Getting budget approval from your GM/ Tennis Committee/City Manager for expansion, etc. with Chuck Gill & Rich Slivocka & Jenny Gray & Trish Faulkner

• Be your best racquet sports leader by Michael Mahoney

• Panel Session: High Performance mentality with Mats Wilander & D. Dave Porter & Ramona Husaru & Fernando Segal & Andy Zodin

• Marketing yourself through your students by giving the best lesson ever by Cynthia Neiman

• Winning patterns and percentages at the front of the court by Craig O’Shannessy

• Driving revenue and retention to counter empty courts by Ajay Pant

• The game and the profession are evolving… so should we by Dr. Dave Porter

• The business of wellness with Frank Guengerich & Chris Hagman

• Developing the game with tennis of the heart by Fernando Segal

• Winning with your brain by Mats Wilander

• Consistency is key: Practical tools for developing reliable players by Sarah Stone

• Understanding the body - tennis connection for injury-free performance by Dr. Greg Rose

• Pickleball coaching clinic with Andrei Daescu & Megan Fudge

• Shaping the next era of racquet sports with Marcos Del Pilar & Andrei Daescu & Robyn Duda & Chris Lukas & Chuck Gill & Brian Dillman

• Solutions for your students’ game by Sophie Woorons

• Programming for the next century with Milos Vasovic & Brenda Schultz & Scott McCulloch & Brian Dillman

• Developing players from A to Z by Mark Bey

• Corrective drill for every level by Brenda Schultz

• Rebrand you: What it means to be a professional today by Brian Dillman

• Opening session with Trish Faulkner & Ikaika Jobe & Ron Romano & Brian Dillman

• Maximizing court time: How racquet sports can drive revenue at your facility with Megan Fudge & Marcos Del Pilar & Drew Thomas & Boris Fetbroyt

• Increase member engagement and revenue with Padel programming with Marcos Del Pilar

• Navigating private and group lesson instruction & dynamics by Mark Bey

• Wheelchair Tennis by Shelby Baron

• Pickleball drills and games by Andrei Daescu

• Pickleball IQ by Megan Fudge

• Technical and tactical solutions by Andrei Daescu

• Panel discussion: Unlocking next-level career growth opportunities with Frank Guengerich & Michael Mahoney & Scott McCulloch & Sophie Woorons & Brian Dillman

We encourage RSPA members to listen to it by signing in on their Tennis Resources Hub. If you’re not yet an RSPA member, consider checking out membership through this page.

MONDAY MORNING CLUB QUARTERBACK
Private Members Club & Sports Talk

Ed Shanaphy, President, CEO - Beyond The Baselines, Management consultant to the private members club and boutique hotel industries, Club President, Club Governor, and Private Club Leader at the Institute of Club Directors.
Every Monday 9am EST Live & On Demand

So far in October, we listened to some interesting conversations. Very relaxed, Ed wants to know what happened in your club over the weekend, and volunteers his own thoughts within a 20-minute webinar. Did you know Ed Shanaphy is a drummer? On October 13, he shared marketing ideas to sell programming like Liveball. On October 20, the discussion was about DUPR ratings and club/member ramifications. On October 27, Ed discussed his wins and losses on the weekend. His win: Big charity tournament went well, and the club made money despite $6,000 prize money. The loss: He didn’t expect that many visitors and could have opened the restaurant earlier. “Big issue for us a managers: How to gauge an audience.”

Ed has listeners tuning in from all over the world, even from China, where it’s 9 pm.
If you sign up and can’t make it, you can get a recording, and it's free for 12 weeks. Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ElHjTADaSzOC8LqozaucbA

Short Webinars and Interviews

“Growth, Development and Maturation”

Throughout the webinar, it was evident that Dr. Pankhurst is a hugely experienced professional. She calls Growth, Development, and Maturation GDM and describes it as the changes every young person is going through, but (did you know?) sometimes at different ages for different players of the same chronological age.

Dr. Pankhurst answered a lot of questions, such as

• What is growth? What is maturation?

• What does it mean for boys and girls?

• When does the growth spurt happen in every child?

• When do you ideally want to teach a child?

• Why is skeletal maturation important?

• What are biological markers, and why are they important?
  

Two days, 12 speakers, great content. The conference, which offered 8 education credits, included sessions on topics like mental toughness, engaging adult events, pickleball development, and business management for racquet sports programs. Those who could not attend live could watch recordings for up to three weeks afterward. 

One of many excellent presentations::

Jenny Gray is the Director of Tennis at The Club at Sonterra in San Antonio, Texas, an RSPA Board member, and an RSPA Master Professional. Her presentation clearly reflected her 29 years of experience as a tennis professional, including 17 years in a leadership role as Director of Tennis. Throughout her talk, she frequently reinforced key points with real-life examples drawn from her current work at the club in Texas.

Some key points:

• Relationships are the cornerstone of happiness.

• It’s never too late to build connections.

• Health & longevity are linked to relationships.

• Create good events - they spark engagement.

• Themed events & decorations drive success.
  Example: Dinko de Mayo, 4th of July Powerball,
  Hit for the Heart, Rally for the Cure, Shamrock Smash,
  The Sonterra Classic, Toys from Tennis, Wimbledon Whites,
  FUNdraising, and…. my favorite:
  

  

Jenny ended the presentation asking: How do Your Events Spark Engagement?