From: Scott Pennington <scottpennington@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: 11/4 USTA Chair Umpire Workshop in Portland
To: PNW Tennis Officials <pnwtennisofficials@gmail.com>

Hi all –

The USTA has kindly extended the signup deadline for this workshop until 6am PT tomorrow morning, Monday 10/30/23.

We still need two participants to enroll in order to go forward with the workshop.

Please consider enrolling per the instructions below. If you have any questions or issues, don’t hesitate to reach out to me directly today!

Thank you,

Scott Pennington
310.430.3685

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:34 PM PNW Tennis Officials <pnwtennisofficials> wrote:

Hi all –

A timely message here for anyone in our section interested in chair umpire training and/or improving your chances to attend a Chair Umpire Center of Excellence.

We have organized a USTA Chair Umpire Workshop next Saturday, November 4th at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon. The UP Varsity tennis facility will be used for the on-court instruction, with members of the tennis team available to play practice matches for chair training.

However, in order for the workshop to go forward, we must have at least 4 registered attendees by the deadline of this Saturday, October 28th at 12 noon. Currently, we do not have enough folks registered, and we would hate to have to forego this opportunity for valuable chair training in our section, especially so close to the start of ITA duals in January, which represents the lion’s share of the chair opportunities in our section for most officials.

Whether you missed the Seattle-area Chair workshop this summer or live closer to Portland such that this UP site would be more convenient, we encourage anyone currently chairing matches or aspiring to chair matches to consider registering for this workshop.

Not only is the instruction and feedback itself invaluable, and not only does demonstrating potential in an in-person workshop improve your chances to attend a USTA Center of Excellence, but as an added bonus, being held immediately at the beginning of the new USTA certification year (starting 11/1/23), workshop attendees will get a head start on the Continual Learning Credits (CLCs) required for 2023-2024.

Whereas only 4 CLCs were required this year ending 10/31/23 (and some of you still need to complete those in the next week to avoid decertification), 8 CLCs will be required for the ’23-’24 certification year, and 2 of those 8 required credits can be knocked out by attending this workshop.

We encourage everyone who might be interested and available next Saturday, November 4th to strongly consider registering to attend. You can do so by logging into the USTA Officiating Learning Center at http://lrc.learn.taleo.net/ustaofficiating

Select “In-Person Education” and under “In-Person Workshops,” scroll down to “Pacific Northwest” (you’ll probably have to click “Load More” to see the PNW section). Just click the blue link for the workshop and complete the registration process.

Again, the deadline to register is 12 noon this Saturday, 10/28/23, so please sign up as soon as you can!

Feel free to reply to this email or to me personally with any questions.

Thanks, everyone!

Scott Pennington
PNWTOA
310.430.3685
scott.pennington