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About IWTA Idaho Wheelchair Tennis Association
In June of 2004 the IWTA received a $1000 grant to fund its program. With the grant we were able to assist the USTA with holding a Randy Snow clinic for wheelchair athletes. We had athletes attend from Utah, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada, as well as several from Idaho. We had several athletes from Idaho that attended the clinic who were new to the sport of tennis. Our goal for the clinic was to bring a recognized wheelchair player (Randy Snow) to the Idaho area in order to build membership in our organization, fund raise for upcoming events, and introduce competitive wheelchair tennis to local athletes.
A secondary gain was to gauge the amount of participants interested in attending a major event in Boise, Idaho, in the hope of developing a major Wheelchair tennis tournament in the near future. We feel that the Randy Snow clinic has allowed us to meet all of our objectives. The clinic had numerous secondary benefits. The event was covered on local television and has helped us with fundraising enormously. For the first time we were be able to send members to the Las Vegas one/up-one/down tournament with a percentage of their tournament fees covered by the IWTA! Also for the first time we had enough money to cover court fees and professional instruction during our winter league. The Randy Snow Clinic opened up many doors for our organization, and without the grant none of this would have been possible.
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