Tennis and Life Camps. An adult camp and summer camp offering tennis lessons and clinics. Located in Saint Peter, Minnesota, USA.
OUR MISSION: Transforming tennis and life through the Three Crowns • Positive Attitude • Full Effort • Good Sportsmanship℠ TLC provides a unique learning experience through our Three Crowns℠ training techniques. We teach concentration and relaxation techniques, confidence-building strategies, match strategies for beginners to advanced players, and mechanics you can count on when the match gets tight.
What we apply on the court can be applied to every area of your life. We call these the Three Crowns • Positive Attitude • Full Effort • Good Sportsmanship℠. We do all this through first-rate instruction, humor, reflection, music, and interactions with campers on and off the court. Our instructors will not just teach you tennis and leave you once they walk off the court. They will dine with you, counsel junior campers, carry your luggage, be in a variety show act with your child, play GVS with you, and be there for you because they believe in you as a player and a person.
LET LOVE SERVE: Steve Wilkinson’s Legacy 44 years ago, TLC co-founder Steve Wilkinson believed there was a better way for superior tennis and sportsmanship to go hand-in-hand using the Three Crowns℠. This philosophy was thanks to two people in his life: Karen Gibbs and Arthur Ashe. Karen, a 19-year-old tennis champion, lost her battle to cancer but won the hearts of everyone she met by never giving up, keeping a positive attitude through brutal chemo regimens, and treating her opponents with the utmost respect, win or lose. Steve’s friend, Arthur Ashe, encountered racism and prejudice but did not give in or respond in kind. Instead, he upheld the highest standards of sportsmanship while championing human rights throughout his storied career. Steve practiced these Three Crowns until his own passing in January 2015. We seek to continue that legacy in our campers and staff.
THE TLC THREE CROWNS PHILOSOPHY Positive Attitude: Things can and will go wrong in tennis and life. A positive attitude is not about being “happy,” but choosing the next action that will move you forward. Full Effort: No one can make you give up. Not your coach, your parent, your boss, your opponent, or your teammate. Only you can. You have the choice to continue giving your all, regardless of circumstances. Good Sportsmanship: Every single act of sportsmanship on and off the court can be summed up in one sentence: Treat others the way you/they want to be treated. It is always a choice and always an action.
At TLC, we teach effective techniques to focus on what is in our control on and off the court and how to let go of what is not.
RESULTS With our 4:1 student to instructor ratio, many state champions, and countless state tournament participants have emerged from TLC with this philosophy, as have internationally ranked juniors and NCAA champions. They emerge not only as better players but, we hope, better people. We hone your strokes, strategy, and mental toughness by teaching a radical approach to winning more matches: take the focus off winning.
OUR COMMITMENT Tennis & Life Camps reflect the mission of Gustavus Adolphus College, which welcomes people from diverse backgrounds who respect and affirm the dignity of all.
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