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Junior gamers, mark your calendars: June is the tenth Annual John McEnroe Tennis Academy Faculty Recruiting Mix.
The John McEnroe Tennis Academy Faculty Recruiting Mix will likely be held June twenty seventh and June twenty eighth, 2026, at SPORTIME Port Washington. This would be the third consecutive 12 months that the Mix is being held at that location.
Now in its milestone tenth 12 months, the JMTA Faculty Mix has turn out to be one of many premier recruiting occasions in junior tennis.
The Mix will present “each JMTA and non-JMTA gamers the chance to showcase their technical and tactical tennis abilities, and their athletic talents, in entrance of coaches from high faculties and universities,” the Academy introduced in a information launch.
The Mix additionally encompasses a live-streaming platform, which provides gamers the chance to carry out for a wider group of coaches. Final 12 months, over 100 coaches from throughout the nation “attended” the occasion nearly, becoming a member of those that attended in-person.
“Serving to gamers attain the following degree has at all times been central to what we do at JMTA,” stated John McEnroe. “Ten years in the past, we created the Mix to present dedicated gamers a critical alternative to be seen and evaluated in a significant method. Watching our Mix develop into one of the revered recruiting occasions within the nation has been extremely rewarding.
“Bringing it again once more to Port Washington, the place my brother Patrick and I educated as youngsters, makes this milestone 12 months particularly significant for us.”
Right here’s extra details about the Mix from as we speak’s information launch:
SPORTIME Port Washington, previously the Port Washington Tennis Academy, is one in every of two JMTA places on Lengthy Island. The ability has been operated by SPORTIME, following an $8.5 million renovation, since 2023. The membership holds a storied place in American tennis historical past. Along with John and Patrick McEnroe, alumni embody Vitas Gerulaitis, Mary Carillo and Tracy Austin.
The 2026 JMTA Faculty Mix will welcome 50 boys and 50 ladies. Coaches representing all three NCAA Divisions are anticipated to attend, with 2026 coach commitments to-date together with coaches from Brown, Baylor, Cornell, Wake Forest, Yale, Colgate, Bryant, Villanova, Williams, and lots of different high applications, and with many extra coaches anticipated to substantiate their attendance within the weeks to return. Representatives from prestigious leagues, together with the Ivy League, ACC, Large East, SEC, Large 10, Patriot League and NESCAC attended in earlier years and are anticipated once more this 12 months.
Purposes for the 100 accessible Mix spots will likely be accepted from now by way of Might thirty first. A devoted Choice Committee will consider every software primarily based upon goal aggressive standards. Gamers will likely be notified of their standing as admitted or wait-listed on a rolling foundation.Every Mix day will start with an 8:00 a.m. check-in. Members will compete in singles and doubles match-play, with tracked outcomes that depend towards their UTRs. Gamers may also obtain athletic efficiency assessments and will likely be invited to take part in Sports activities Imaginative and prescient Testing and in a Faculty Coaches’ Panel Dialogue. Mix companion Tennis Analytics will likely be video-recording all matches and can supply participant packages, together with match movies with detailed analytics.
Included for every Mix participant is an built-in recruiting bundle, together with the match movies, that are made accessible, digitally, to each contributors and coaches, on the contact of a button on their private Participant Portals. For additional particulars, and for details about JMTA’s Faculty Placement Service, go to www.SPORTIMENY.com/JMTACombine or e-mail jmtacombine@sportimeny.com.
