Special Pops Tennis March 4, 2017

The Rotary Club of Alpharetta will help sponsor the Special Pops Tennis Round Robin tournament which will be held on Saturday, March 4, 2017. The Rotary Club members and the Special Pops Tennis Athletes will come together on the courts playing in 30 minute intervals. Each participating Rotary member will be paired with a Pops Athlete.

Special Populations Tennis Program, Inc. (Special Pops) is a 501(c)(3) organization which offers an adaptive tennis program specifically designed to share the sport of tennis with children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Programs are offered free of charge to all skill levels, including those who have never played, and include year-round tennis instruction, league play and tournament competition. Based in the metro-Atlanta area, Special Pops is a registered Community Tennis Association (CTA) of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and is recognized by USTA Georgia as the primary CTA in Georgia for teaching tennis and training coaches to teach tennis to players with special needs. It is also an accredited agency of Special Olympics Georgia (SOGA) and the only tennis training arm for many local SOGA-accredited agencies.