Michael Pavlides of Massapequa, N.Y. was named Virginia and Chuck Landis High School Coach of the Year at the 2012 USTA Eastern Section Awards Dinner. Pavlides has been coaching boys and girls tennis at Massapequa High School for 15 years, during which time, he has helped his players improve and worked hard to grow the game. Since he started…
On Sunday evening March 10, high school tennis coaches and players are invited to the Annual Long Island Scholastic Coaches Conference and Clinic at Bethpage Park Tennis Center. This free clinic will be run by Bethpage Park Tennis Directors Steve Kaplan and Keith Kambourian. The workshop will teach coaches how to incorporate different exercises and…
Long Island Tennis Magazine is dedicated to growing tennis on Long Island and also supporting the local tennis community that comprises a good portion of our readership base. We were recently approached by the Nassau County High School Committee about sponsoring a Boys & Girls High School Coach of the Year Award and thought it…
The boys high school tennis season is still two months away, but as the players and coaches prepare for another great season, league coordinators have already put in place a schedule for the upcoming 2013 season. Some of the key dates are as follows: â–şMonday, March 11: 2013 Boys High School Season Begins â–şSaturday-Sunday, May…
Longtime high school tennis coach Howie Arons has ended his 36-year coaching career, stepping down as coach of the Cardozo Boys Tennis Team. Through Howie’s illustrious career as head coach at Cardozo, he has amassed 582 career wins against only 51 defeats, and won 18 New York City Championships. Howie’s success on the court was…
Larry Scott, Commissioner of the NCAA PAC-12 Conference and a 1982 graduate of John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore, has been inducted into the school’s Alumni Hall of Fame. On hand to wish him well were USTA Long Island Region President Daniel Burgess and Board Member Melanie Rubin, who presented Scott with a plaque…
It was an unseasonably warm night of Nov. 20th and Suffolk County had its high school tennis girls stars colliding in one place, Villa Lomardi’s for the All Suffolk County Girls Varsity Tennis Awards Dinner, organized by the Suffolk County Girls Varsity Tennis Coaches Association. The annual event is an evening when the shining stars…
For the fourth time in as many years, the Syosset High School Girls Tennis team has knocked off the Suffolk county champion, Half Hollow Hills East, to take the title of Long Island Champions. After finishing the regular season undefeated and taking out the Port Washington girls for the Nassau Championships almost a month earlier, it…
More than 100 high school student-athletes from across the USTA Eastern region showed off their talent and learned about a wide range of opportunities to play collegiate tennis on Nov. 11 at USTA Eastern’s 26th Annual College Showcase Day. The event, which was held at Saw Mill Club in Mount Kisco, N.Y., featured more than 60…
Michele Lehat is a sophomore from Great Neck North, playing first singles this past season for Great Neck North High School. Playing the number one spot means each match you will draw the opposing team’s top player and you must be up for the task. Michele had a very respectable personal record, losing only to…