WHO ARE WE

The Houston Tennis Umpires Association (HTUA) is the only professional tennis umpiring organization in the City of Houston. We are an organization specifically devoted to providing certified, qualified, professional tennis officials for all levels of tennis events; Amateur, Recreational, Junior, Collegiate and Professional.

 

       

  

Left to right, Margaret Smith (HTUA-Houston) Ken McCain (HTUA-Beaumont), Sammy Paulsen (Odessa), Elisa Cotner (Dallas)?

Congrats to the above folks who officiated at the Davis cup Quarters held in Austin

Margaret and Ken belong to our HTUA Family

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We had a great certification school with the one of the best National Instructors, Anthony Montero.  Anthony really enjoyed teaching our Houston classes. He commented that we have the best-trained officials in the country. The Board is really proud of all of you and of how well you impressed Anthony!!

There were 69 USTA, 25 referee, and 25 ITA officials certified this weekend.If you were not able to attend the Houston school, then you will need to attend a certification school elsewhere in order to keep your certification. There is a list of the schools on our handy web links

Those who attended the certification school also renewed their HTUA membership. If you did not attend, be sure to send in your membership dues to Chuck Emmerich, our treasurer. You will need to mail him a check along with the membership form (see web link). Please e-mail a copy of the membership form to Ginny James, also.

When you attend a certification school, you will need to enter the information in Nucula, along with your test scores.

If you have already attended a certification school, please take a moment to do this now, while it’s fresh in your memory.

The Texas Section has set up a Twitter account, and all officials are invited to follow their tweets.

 Please see the link to instruct you how to set up a Twitter account (in case you aren’t currently a tweeter). Once you set up an account, you can start to follow the tweets from the Texas Section.  

If you already have a twitter account, you can now follow the Texas Section tweets.

 

 

The Ita Season is upon us,

Attached are the procedures for all ITA officials to ensure that we have officials at the match and that we get paid for the match. Please take a moment to review what should happen for each dual match. If you need the Coaches Roster please email Danny Tangri

 

Also a general hello and Thankyou for the Existing HTUA board who were re-elected at the general meeting

 

 
CONTACT INFORMATION
Ginny James
President/Operations
Phone: 832-646-9250
11506 Pebbleton
Houston, TX 77070

John Mullins
Vice President/Membership
Phone: 281-487-8926
Email: Vice President HTUA
4611 Merion Circle
Pasadena, TX 77505
 
Chuck Emmerich
Treasurer 
Phone:281-997-1621

Email: Treasurer HTUA
2203 Sleepy Hollow
Pearland, TX 77581
 

Nancy Vivero

Secretary/Training
Phone: 281-835-9573
Email: Secretary HTUA
3911 N Sandy Court
Missouri City, TX 77459
 
Directors at Large
Harriett Hulbert
Email: Harriett Hulbert
 
Gloria Dial: Membership/Training
Email: Gloria Dial
 
Danny Tangri: Web site
Email: Danny Tangri

HANDY WEB LINKS

USTA HOME

USTA Texas

USTA Shop

For Uniforms

 

 

 

 

        

The information below is redundant but useful

You should have all received the information about Nucula and the vision form from the National Office.

Everybody should be entering their work records into Nucula.

Be sure to hit the submit button after all the information is entered, or you will revert back to a provisional official for 2012!

The deadline for submitting information into Nucula is October 31. Let me know if you have any problems meeting this deadline.

The USTA national office must have your completed vision form by December 1. You will need to take the form to your eye doctor and have it signed by the doctor.

Please see more below

* Go to Nucula and sign in.

* Click on "My Account"

* Click on "My settings"

* Click on "Certs"

* Go to the bottom and click on "recertification request"

 

Be sure you do this or you won't be certified or re-certified.

Please note Background checks are required this year. Presently the link is not available, once it is live the information will be sent to all, unfortunately this is unlikely until at least the 3rd quarter this year.


 

 

 

Re Certification Request

Please put in your work records for the year so District and Section Chairpersons of Officials can begin their review and assign 2012 certifications. 

Many of new are new officials or are just new to Nucula so at this link you will be able the view the process of adding work records to your account:

Manual Work Record Guide

After you are done with your work record and are ready to signal your record is ready to be reviewed, you can follow the instructions on this document. If you do not  signal by hitting the button your District and/or Section will have no way to know you want to remain certified. Please check with your Section or District on their timeline to have the request completed.

Recertification Request Guide

 

Vision Form

The completed Vision Form is required for all on-court officials who are above the Provisional Umpire level.  You can attain a copy of the form below: 

Vision Examination Form

If you have sent a form in and have not heard back regarding confirmation, there is an online form in the home page of Nucula where you can let us know and we will look into our files to confirm that we have it or not.

 

 

 

Please find link to the various Texas Schools on the Handy Web links

Please send your messages regarding the Web site and any comments and requests to Danny Tangri

Any member that would like a copy of the current roster please email Danny Tangri

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One of the most frequently asked questions that we receive is, "How do I get ITA training?"

The following is an excerpt from a blog post by a senior USTA, ITA official.
First, we all need to understand that ITA officiating is really a creation all its own. Its not the same as USTA tournaments and certainly isn't the same a pro level tournaments. As an ITA official, you have coaches and players right there on the court with you and many times are placed in a high-charged and adversarial atmosphere--so you need to know your stuff!
Here are your options for training:
1. Contact your local ITA coordinator.  For Houston, this would be Ginny James.
2. Ask your coordinator to submit your name to the Chair Academy in Plano in May, or the Live Fire Workshop at Baylor in September. These are the two highest quality training opportunities in the nation but it is by invitation only and you can only be recommended by your local coordinator.
Here are some things to remember when you are looking for ITA training:
* You must know the ITA rules backwards and forwards. There is no substitute for this quality.
* You must have a teachable spirit.
* You must be willing to rove as well as do chairs.
* You must be willing to do matches without pay at the first.
* Make yourself as available as possible.
* Email or call your coordinator and let them know you are interested in training.


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