Season 25 Episode #64 Kenyon Generette-Oliver and Shaun J Boyce

Hello summer camp lovers! Today in this short episode we’ve invited Kenyon Generette-Oliver. Today he is here to let you know how he suggests you set up your schedule for summer camps. Hit the play button to listen!

About the Guest

Kenyon is originally from Atlanta and helps lead the team at Agnes ScottTennis Center, Briarlake Church, and Clarkston. Kenyon is a graduate of Mars Hill College where he earned a Bachelors degree in Communications and English with a minor in Economics while playing tennis and soccer.

Kenyon has been the head teaching pro with some of the top tennis clubs in the Atlanta metro, including Dunwoody Country Club and the Atlanta Country Club. Prior to those stents, he was a staff pro at the Capital Country Club. He is an Elite USPTA Tennis Professional and has been teaching juniors for over 25 years.

In his spare time, Kenyon loves hanging out with his friends and family. He loves tennis so much, he even plays while on vacation.

Work in the Community:

– Volunteered wheelchair tennis tournament at Dunwoody Country Club

– Volunteer coach for Druid Hill High School girls and boys team

– Volunteer coach for CHOA yearly tournament

– Volunteer for teach-a-thons to raise funds for AYTEF

– Dreammakers

*acquired from the utatennis.com website

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Right now, let's get into today's tip from RSPA Elite and PTR Certified Tennis Pro,

Kenyon Generette-Oliver. And this is actually his answer to the King of Tennis question.

Have a listen and let us know what you think.

I'm going to start with Kenyon and looking for summer camps only, even if it's the whole

world. Maybe just Atlanta, from your point of view, from a summer camp point of view,

is there anything you were King of Tennis you could do anything you wanted? Is there

anything you would change or do?

Hmm. All right. Let me see if I can attack it this way. I think the best thing that we

did this summer, and I'm curious what the guys here are going to say when I say this for

them, for someone who has year-round programming, the best thing that we did is we decided to

take July the fourth off. We did not do summer camp July fourth. We felt that was like a midway

point because in the past, every pro, every junior pro is always acted as though they were

burnout. With that week, not doing that week, and then we start back basically the first

of August, they gave them the kind of that midway point. So I'm just curious on as far as decision

making because I don't think there's any bad thing you can do for summer camp, except tell

some kid they can't have water. I felt like that's the best decision I've made in my 32

years of coach in tennis is to take that week off. I also took that week off myself. If you

wanted to work, it was kind of on you, but you weren't kind of forced to because most of

our people that work for us are employees. That was the best thing I felt like I've done.

If I was king for a day, I would tell everyone to take the week off personally because it's

hard for people to take the week off when they think they need it, but then they also

complain that they're burnout. So you've got to force them to do some things sometimes.

That's the way that we attack it. To balance the fact that you need to survive the summer

with, hey, I want to make money, I want to keep doing what I do. This is my time. Some people

I think Ben told me he's got a lot of his revenue is in the summer, where for us, our revenue

drops a little bit. So depending on the business model and what you do is how you want to handle

that fourth of July, I think that's great advice. At least that long weekend maybe even do

a special Wednesday, Thursday, Friday depending on how that falls. If you feel like you need

to work on that week, but from a coaching point of view to take that week off as a group,

I think that's good advice.

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