Kids Learn New Sports With TGA After-School Programs
Los Angeles, CA — TGA Premier Sports (TGA) develops safe, alternative introductory youth sports programming for kids nationwide as schools adjust their academic calendars amid these unpredictable, challenging times. As the nation’s leading provider of in-school and community-based youth sports enrichment programs, TGA has quickly transformed its curriculum and locations and has also instituted new best practices for all golf and tennis programs scheduled for the upcoming school year.
“The unprecedented events over the past few months have affected everyone, including drastically reducing physical activities for kids and the opportunity to experience sports,” says Laura Sappington, Vice President, Operations for TGA. “Through TGA’s community outreach and partnerships along with our new virtual online classes, we are uniquely positioned to help schools, families and communities ensure that their kids are able to participate in sports and maintain a level of activity that promotes a healthy lifestyle.
With schools nationwide still determining if they will go back this fall full time, part-time with hybrid learning, or not at all with remote learning, students at more than 3,000 schools across the country will now have options for sports participation either outside on school campuses, locally through strategic partnerships with golf courses, tennis facilities, and community centers, or live virtual classes at home with TGA coaches. The classes include the same curriculum combining golf and tennis skill progression with academics (STEAM), life skills, and physical activity, as well as on-course activities and games.
For school systems that have opted for remote learning, TGA’s virtual online classes with coaches allow students to take a TGA class with a live coach via zoom and learn golf and tennis in the comforts of their own home. Whether its practicing the grip, stance, or swing in golf, the forehand in tennis, or impactful STEAM labs learning why a ball spins or bounces, TGA online classes will continue to keep kids active and learning after school through golf and tennis.
As TGA navigates through these challenging times into a new sports landscape, and with many team sports programs still sidelined in certain markets, individual sports like golf and tennis have moved to the forefront. According to the Aspen Institute, golf and tennis are among the Top 10 most active sports kids are now participating in, and that trend will likely continue to grow. With social distancing naturally built into them, TGA has already seen its summer golf and tennis programs grow by as much as 40 percent in some markets, and that is likely to continue throughout the school year.
TGA’s nationwide team of owners, coaches, and professional staff have been working hard developing and implementing best practices for all programs. This includes social distancing, sanitizing stations, no sharing of equipment, smaller groups, replacing handshakes with tip of the cap, no contact with course or court equipment, as well as other ways to ensure a fun, safe environment for kids to learn these sports core basics.
For more information about TGA and to find both live and virtual programs in your market, visit www.playtga.com.