Led by Dio Miranda, and with the support of coaches, parents, and teachers alike, next week the students of ATA CP will embark on the “Belly/Brain Experiment”. This will be a five-day lesson exploring the effect of different types of foods on the mental, physical and emotional state of the athlete’s body. We will begin…
from Coach Newman I recently posted to my Facebook page that one of the best parts of my job is participating in the community building events that surround the Austin Tennis Academy. A week ago Sunday it was participating in Esmeralda’s run. Tonight is was being the Master of Ceremonies for three ATA Seniors signing…
| Financial Forces | Belly Brain | Art Attack | Big Decisions Amazing qualities of the people that make up the ATA community are apparent, not only through the breadth of knowledge, but also through the generosity of giving and sharing. This semester CP students are gaining valuable information from guest instructors, John Spencer, Dio…
“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.” ~Chuang-tzu The…
Austin Tennis Academy and ATA College Prep are constantly striving to grasp the power of technology to better serve its students. Through interaction via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and the ATA website, or analyzing intricate technique with the latest in video sharing technology, ATA works to be at the forefront of using these tools to…
from Travis, student contributor The past few weeks, the Geometry class and the Advanced Algebra class (both taught by Bryan Rutherford) have been constructing Tennis Ball Cannons. They will be powered by a small force of combustion, building up an enough pressure to send the tennis ball soaring. The devices are made of numerous different…
Wow! Parent-Teacher Night… this community never ceases to amaze me! If you were a fly on the wall: 1) you would have witnessed a community of devoted and caring parents sitting side by side, packed like sardines, on the picnic tables in the rec room; 2) you would have heard the passion in our instructors’…
Today… Two middle school students sit down in the Library in front of the white board and, by memory, hand draw a map of the world. Four others are outside wrangling the horses and learning how to manage not only large animals that are bigger and stronger, but how their own energies affect them, conquering…
“Race to Nowhere” is an education documentary that challenges current thinking about how to best prepare our students for success. It encourages us to rethink not only WHAT it is we are preparing our children for but HOW we go about doing it… and more importantly… WHY we do it. I first viewed Race to…
I have heard Coach Doug call a player’s tennis bag a ‘life line’. It should contain everything you may need on the island of the competitive tennis court. My son, Josh, is meticulous about his tennis bag and its contents. It is organized like a ship captain’s data log. Everything has a space and…