On April 19, the "Hometown News" ran an article about our Middle School Tennis program. We're grateful to the The Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation’s Sunday Match Play USTA partnered program catered by Chick-fil-A provided fitness and nutrition.
The Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation held their final week of spring session, Sunday Match Play, this past Sunday, April 7th at The Boulevard Village and Tennis Club. This end-of-season event, hosting 50 kids and their parents, focused on fun, fitness and nutrition. Local healthy fast food establishment, Chick-fil-A, donated all catering services, including the Chick-fil-A cow, who was on and off court interacting and entertaining everyone in attendance.
“Eating healthy is one of Mardy’s Six Healthy Habits and Chick-fil-A was a great fit to compliment our end-of-season party,” said Kristen Wilson, Director of Tennis for MFCF. Chick-fil-A interim manager, Micah Harris said "After observing the fantastic role this organization plays in influencing children to develop healthy habits, we decided to invest in this mission by donating a healthy meal at this event for the children in the community." Long time MFCF Kids on Courts parent and program supporter, Jesse Milliman, helped coordinate the relationship between MFCF and Chick-Fil-A.
Sunday Match Play is a USTA 10 and under format tennis program using orange, red, and green dot tennis balls. It consists of a 5-week session held each spring and fall staffed with local elite tennis pros. Each week the kids receive ½ hour of tennis instruction and ½ hour of match play experience.
The Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation will use Chick-fil-A for their end-of-season Middle School Club Tennis party in May, an event that looks to host 80 children from Indian River County. MFCF also hopes to team up with them on other future events.