A New Program for Northern Nevada is Launched

By Jeff Cade. Great Basin Technical Director

This year, Northern Nevada launched its first season of the Signature Program. The purpose of this program was to provide Northern Nevada the opportunity to continue their development through the summer months. With this in place, we also have the ability to promote events such as Summer Camps and ODP, and to keep players abreast with the National Teams’ progress.

Our program was broken off by Section. Players were only allowed to play in their Section. This environment put players in a situation where they had to meet new faces and be under the direction of a different coach. We carried three Sections, allowing training to be provided in the Section nearest the player. We hope not to have players travel just for training.

Each Section was given one training and one match a week, with byes during the season for summer travel.

For the first season, we feel that Signature provided players with an understanding of their personal level of play. We have had interest grow for future programs and found players that normally we would not see. This has been good for the community!