District League Coordinator Spotlight: Viki Congleton

USTA Northern Illinois's own Viki Congleton was recently featured in the National Coordinators & Volunteers Newsletter for her great work with League tennis throughout Northern Illinois. Read below for her take on growing the game. 

What are your local plans for bringing back tennis in your local community for the rest of 2020? 

We started some outdoor only leagues to service those players who are concerned about playing indoors with the virus. We also offered outdoor weekend leagues, which sadly didn't take off, and are currently trying to build weekday indoor leagues to help our district facility members fill some of their empty court time.

What type of program(s) (advancing or non-advancing, traditional or modified format)? 

We are offering progressing leagues but are flexible

What modifications were needed to address concerns of facilities, captains and players about COVID-19? 

Wow, that's a question that could take a long time to answer. Because our winter leagues were stopped halfway through, we rescheduled those unplayed matches to begin at the end of June and run through August. The players were delighted that we did that. In order to ensure that they could play as safely as possible we created a web page with all of the facility Covid-19 policies so players would know what to expect when traveling to their matches. We also of course stayed current on state and local policies.