Forest Lake Area High School Athletics and Activities

How to score a game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N24NGrSnnMM

The next video shows how to score a game.  Varsity boys tennis plays a three-set match.  The first player to two sets wins.

The coaching staff reserves the right to make the final determination on lettering.  The goal of the coaching staff is to have requirements for lettering that are balanced between not making the goal too hard to attain and hard enough so that it means something.

With that said, students are able to letter if they:

1) Show up every day, with a good attitude, and work hard to improve their game.

2) Participate in the majority of varsity matches and/or weekend Quads/Tris.

3) Help foster camaraderie among team members.

The coaches and captains will share information during the season through the Remind App.

To get all updates and schedule changes, please download the Remind App and enter the following code to join: @ak7ee3

Players are expected to ride the bus (when available) to and from matches.  If a player needs to get a ride home from his parent, this form must be signed and given to the coach.

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TAKEN FROM: Forbes Magazine Sep 17, 2018

Want To Live Longer? Take Up Tennis!  Written by: Steven Salzberg / Healthcare Contributor

Tennis might just be the best thing you can do to extend your life!

A new study from Denmark, published just last week by Peter Schnohr and colleagues, shows that playing tennis may extend your life by nearly 10 years. That's a remarkably big benefit, one that even the study authors were surprised at.

It's been well-established for a while now that exercise helps you live longer. For example, the Cardiovascular Health Study found that people over the age of 75 can expect to gain 1 to 1.5 years of healthy living by being active rather than sedentary. Others studies have looked at the effects of running or walking and found similar positive benefits. The authors of the new study wanted to look at other sports activities, not just running. Using a large cohort of 20,000 healthy people in the Copenhagen City Heart Study, they identified 8,577 who were in the study from the early 1990s until 2017 and who met a variety of other criteria for inclusion. This gave them 25 years of follow-up, long enough to ask the question: how does participation in sports affect life expectancy? In particular, they looked at tennis, badminton, soccer, jogging, cycling, calisthenics, swimming, and health club activities (which included treadmills, ellipticals, and weights).

The bottom line: compared to a sedentary lifestyle, playing tennis extends one's life expectancy by 9.7 years. The other sports all provided benefits too, though tennis was the clear winner!

Here's a summary: • Tennis: 9.7 years gain in life expectancy • Badminton: 6.2 years • Soccer: 4.7 years • Cycling: 3.7 years • Swimming: 3.4 years • Jogging: 3.2 years • Calisthenics: 3.1 years • Health club activities: 1.5 years

The authors didn't expect tennis to do so well, as you can see in this quote: "Surprisingly, we found that tennis players had the longest expected lifetime among the 8 different sports." For those who don't read scientific papers regularly, I should point out that the word "surprisingly" rarely gets past the editors unless the result truly is surprising. One part of the surprise is that spending more time exercising did not correlate with the greatest benefits. In fact, the cohort of people who spent the longest time on their exercise was the health club group, who showed the smallest increase in longevity.

One possible reason for tennis, badminton, and soccer doing so well is that out of the 8 sports studied, these are the ones that require 2 or more people and involve social interaction. As the authors explain, "Belonging to a group that meets regularly promotes a sense of support, trust, and commonality, which has been shown to contribute to a sense of well-being and improved long-term health."

Or it might be that the type of exercise you get in tennis – short bursts of activity rather than slow, steady plodding exercise – might be better for you. The authors noted that "short repeated intervals of higher intensity exercise appear to be superior to continuous moderate intensity physical activity for improving health outcomes."

If you're still skeptical, the only other study similar to this one, a very large study from Britain published last year, came to the same conclusion: racquet sports had the greatest benefit on all-cause mortality, followed by swimming and aerobics. So if you're not doing it already, take up tennis!

It's easy to find clinics and teams at almost any level (in the U.S., that is), thanks to the thousands of local clubs and to the huge network of USTA leagues, with play ranging from beginners on up, and age groups up to 85 and even 90. That's right; there are tennis leagues for the 90-and-over set. Maybe tennis players really do live longer.

Want to keep track of your unforced errors, winners, types of strokes, and match scores? Use these spreadsheets to track your progress during the season and the offseason.