About Me

My Experiences and Skills

My experiences include being a tennis coach through the Avon High School, Avon Middle School South, and the Avon Community Tennis Association (Avon CTA). My other experiences include being a tutor for Kumon, and the registration manager for the Avon CTA. These experiences have taught me important skills such as:

• executing preplanned lessons to build fundamental skills

• ensuring understanding of material

• communicating with people of different backgrounds

• leading students/players in problem solving and self-correction

• organizing paperwork and finances

While I felt as I had good self-management, communication, leadership, and teamwork, these job opportunities has allowed me to expand on these skills and learn new ones. Being a tennis coach and Kumon tutor allowed me to work with students/athletes that range from elementary school to high schoolers. I was able to work on explaining skills or topics with varying amount of details to adjust to who I am working with. Being a registration manager meant that I work with many people on a daily basis to take care of payment, questions, and data organization. While I enjoyed organizing data, taking care of payments, answering questions via phone or email, and creating flyers to advertise the clinics, I did not enjoy the confrontational aspect of the job. I am still learning how to best deal with parents and guardians who are angry or confused on the registration process. Simply going classes and interacting with people on a daily basis has allowed me to become better at communicating as well. I no longer feel as worried or nervous when first starting to interact with people and am able to carry on meaningful conversations. 

Teamwork

I have worked in team settings mostly at work to plan and organize events and camps for the Avon CTA. I was the main person who planned, organized, and consulted with the USTA to create the camp and tournament for the summer and winter. I put in time during camp hours to help parents register their player for the tournament and work with the USTA to set up draws and brackets while the test of the team handled the coaching. I found that I often had to split my time coaching and planning and as "team leader", even had to work outside of hours to ensure the tournaments would run smoothly. The main lesson I learned was what "team leader" means. I thought that I would coach similar to the team and ensure that the team had a clear agenda of what they are working on. Instead, I found myself juggling multiple tasks during camp hours while ensuring that the team was completing their tasks. Another thing I learned was that clear, concise communication was important so that all tasks were completed. Being able to quickly and effectively communicate the standard allowed for the team to independently complete their tasks. Clear communication also allowed the whole team to trust each other which allowed for work to be finished smoothly. 

My main strengths as a team member include:

• communicating with my supervisor and the team

• working independently on projects 

• ability to multitask on multiple different types of jobs