{"id":5184,"date":"2020-01-13T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2020-01-21T14:24:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T19:24:56","slug":"ptr-receives-usta-provisional-accreditation-re-accredited-by-uscce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/ptr-receives-usta-provisional-accreditation-re-accredited-by-uscce\/","title":{"rendered":"PTR Receives USTA Provisional Accreditation; Re-Accredited by USCCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PTR-300x143.png\" alt=\"Professional Tennis Registry\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-876\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PTR-300x143.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PTR-200x96.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PTR.png 433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Professional Tennis Registry<\/p>\n<p><strong>HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.<\/strong> &#8211; Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) had announced that it has received provisional accreditation from the United States Tennis Association (USTA). USTA\u2019s accreditation program sets uniform standards for the development of those new to the profession and will include ongoing coaching education for all certified professionals who are members of accredited organizations.<\/p>\n<p>PTR continues to be the leader in Coach Education.  PTR innovations in 2019, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Level 1 Certification launch \u2013 the first to require six-plus days of education to become certified;<\/li>\n<li>Established eight (8) regional education centers;<\/li>\n<li>Conducted more than 180 PTR certification workshops in the US in 2019;<\/li>\n<li>Revised PTR Continuing Education Recognition Program;<\/li>\n<li>Launched PTR Virtual Classroom;<\/li>\n<li>Debuted Bollettieri-PTR \u2018Tennis in a Can\u2019 curriculum for high school and team coaches;<\/li>\n<li>Held inaugural PTR National Education Day at Cary Leeds in New York City;<\/li>\n<li>Released revolutionary PickTEN program to grow the game;<\/li>\n<li>PTR Directors of Tennis Conference held on the west coast for the first time (Indian Wells);<\/li>\n<li>Held PTR Technology Conference at IMG Academy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThese accomplishments were made possible by the hard work and dedication of the entire PTR staff and support of the PTR Board,\u201d said PTR CEO, Dan Santorum.  \u201cSpecial thanks to PTR COO, Brian Parkkonen and renowned educational consultant, Dr. Anne Pankhurst.  PTR has even more quality education initiatives planned for 2020.  We look forward to working with the USTA to achieve Full Accreditation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.<\/strong> &#8211; Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) announced that it has been successfully re-accredited by the United States Center for Coaching Excellence (USCCE) and National Council for Accreditation of Coaching Education (NCACE) at Level 5 accreditation for its PTR Master of Tennis &#8211; Performance program.<\/p>\n<p>Originally accredited in 2011, PTR is still one of only 30 accredited coach education programs within the United States.  PTR clearly stands out as a leader in the United States in the preparation of tennis coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Through this accreditation process, NCACE ensures that the PTR program adheres to the characteristics of excellence as prescribed by SHAPE America\u2019s National Standards for Sports Coaches.  These standards feature eight domains of coaching responsibilities and within them, 40 standards and subsequent benchmarks representing the body of knowledge associated with each coaching responsibility and provide concrete examples of actions and orientations that constitute coaching competence.  Accreditation reviewers noted that the PTR program provided \u201cin depth coverage of all topics for coaching including a substantial number of hours.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.<\/strong> &#8211; Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) had announced that it has received provisional accreditation from the United States Tennis Association (USTA). USTA\u2019s accreditation program sets uniform standards for the development of those new to the profession and will include ongoing coaching education for all certified professionals who are members of accredited organizations. PTR also announced that it has been successfully re-accredited by the United States Center for Coaching Excellence (USCCE) and National Council for Accreditation of Coaching Education (NCACE) at Level 5 accreditation for its PTR Master of Tennis &#8211; Performance program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5185,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions\/5185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}