Rob Coster elected APTA President

Ready or not, here comes the 2012/2013 platform tennis season! I’m very pleased to share with you that, due to the tireless efforts of passionate volunteers around North America, the game we love is thriving more than ever. Platform tennis might be relatively small when compared to the more mainstream games we play, but recent revelations portray our game in a different light.

While working through bankruptcy reorganization this summer, court documents listed the Viking Platform Tennis division of Prince Sports as the crown jewel, representing close to 20% of Prince’s business. At the APTA annual meeting in Boston this past spring, a representative of Wilson Sports stated that platform tennis represented “the single fastest growing segment of their entire company” Many of the platform tennis court manufacturers are using one word to describe their business recently: “crazy!” Maybe our sport isn’t so small after all.

I’m very fortunate and excited to be following in the footsteps of my friend Tim McAvoy as President of the American Platform Tennis Association. I give Tim a lot of credit for strengthening the APTA as an organization and I look forward to seeing it grow even more in the future.

Candidly, it’s because of Tim and the many passionate people like him that our sport is growing like it is. If you’re one of those people, I sincerely thank you. If you’re not, it’s time to get off the bench and get in the game. [enlarge image to read full letter]